Challenges to Peace Negotiations: The Sri Lankan Experience The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is a good example of how peace Sukanya Podder | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Environmental Stresses and their Security Implications for South Asia In discussing the dynamics of contemporary conflicts, scholars, over the last decade, have focused on the ‘interconnectivity’ between environmental factors and violent conflict—for example between migration and environmental mismanagement, debt... Uttam Kumar Sinha | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Japan’s Security Concerns and Policy Responses Japanese foreign policy and security perceptions have undergone a perceptible and steady change over the past decade, especially under the leadership of former Prime Minister Koizumi (2001-2006). Its support for... Arpita Mathur | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Nawab Bugti’s Assassination: Future Portents “I have been a Baloch for several centuries. I have been a Muslim for 1400 years. I have been a Pakistani for just over fifty”, Alok Bansal | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Terror Trends: Mega Cities, Maximum Impact The security environment of India is in a critical phase, repeatedly challenged by terrorism, with outfits operating out of Pakistan continuing to be highly active and finding new and unexpected... T. Khurshchev Singh | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
The Essence of the South Asian Nuclear Debate Scott D. Sagan, Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons A Debate Renewed With New Sections on India and Pakistan, Terrorism, and Missile Defence (New York: W W Norton... Namrata Goswami | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
The Dark Side of the West’s Global War on Terror Craig Murray, Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror (Mainstream Publishing Company Edinburgh, 2006), pp. 400 Ramakant Dwivedi | July 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Million Mutinies in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas The tribal terrain in Pakistan is in a state of turmoil. As the Pakistani Taliban gradually emerge, many analysts have pointed out that the terrain has traditionally been home to... Ashok K. Behuria | June 27, 2006 | IDSA Comments
ULFA’s Pressure Tactics In the third round of talks held in New Delhi on June 22 with the 11-member People's Consultative Group (PCG), the Centre gave an assurance that it would engage with... Namrata Goswami | June 27, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Sri Lanka’s Uncertain Future Sri Lanka, which seemed all set to move towards peace and ethnic reconciliation, teeters on the brink of a grim crisis today. In an almost incredible turn of events, the... M. Mayilvaganan | June 27, 2006 | IDSA Comments
