Central Asia and South Asia: Potential of India’s Multilateral Economic Diplomacy in Inter-Regional Cooperation The unique feature of the Indian economy over the past few decades has been a combination of high growth and stability. It has proved its strength and resilience through this... Ibrokhim R. Mavlonov | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
India-Russia Defence Cooperation Co-operation in the field of defence constitutes one of the most important features of Indo-Russian bilateral ties. However, the relationship is undergoing significant changes in the new context of market... Jyotsna Bakshi | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Closure of the Pakistan-Based A.Q. Khan Network Case: A Hasty Burial? North Korea’s and Iran’s showdown with the US and the West on the nuclear proliferation issue are closely related to their dubious proliferation connections with the Pakistan-based A Q Khan... Rajesh Kumar Mishra | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Agni-III On July 9, 2006, the long awaited Agni-III ballistic missiles test finally took place. This was the first test of this version of Agni designed with a range of 3,000... Rajiv Nayan | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Dragon in the Savanna: China’s Rising Influence over Angola China’s relations with Angola have traditionally been friendly due to the fact that both countries were and still are ruled by Marxist Leninist regimes, but until recently the PRC’s presence... Lara Horta | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Rise of Islamic Forces in Somalia Somalia has entered into a new period of crises with the rise of Islamic forces in the country. After months of fierce fighting, on June 4 this year the militias... Nivedita Ray | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Dangerous Symptoms When noted journalist Bertil Lintner first broke the story in April 2002 about the growth radicalism in Bangladesh, it was ridiculed and dismissed as a malicious story. There was complete... Sreeradha Datta | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
North Korea: The Final Frontier? The Guerrila Dynasty – Politics and Leadership in North Korea by Adrian Buzo, I.B. Tauris & Co., London, 1999 Price: GBP: 12.95 pp. 323 North Korea in the World Economy Raviprasad Narayanan | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Defence Economics: Core Issues Defence can seldom ignore the standard economic problem—the need to make critical often hard resource choices. Yet the output of defence studies focuses almost entirely on professional and strategic issues,... Rajan Katoch | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
British Strategic Vision of 2015: Focus on India and China The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom has come out with a White Paper on British international strategic priorities for the next ten years. British Foreign Secretary,... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | March 31, 2006 | IDSA Comments