Partnership in a Balance of Power System The popular perception in India is that with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of one of the two Superpowers, the bipolar international system has become unipolar.... K. Subrahmanyam | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
International Nuclear Control Regimes and India’s Participation in Civilian Nuclear Trade: Key Issues Much of the current debate on India’s decision to evolve a set of agreements with the United States and engage the international nuclear technology control regimes in order to promote... G. Balachandran | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Indo-US Nuclear Agreement and IAEA Safeguards Nuclear transfers to a non-nuclear weapon state (NNWS) are conditioned on IAEA safeguards on all current and future peaceful nuclear activities, what are called the full-scope safeguards (FSS) or comprehensive... R. Ramachandran | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Stability, Deterrence and Separation of India’s Civil and Weapon Facilities The 18 July Bush-Manmohan Agreement is currently being implemented, in bits and pieces. At the time of the signing of the agreement it was stated by different officials that both... Raja Menon | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Indo-US Nuclear Deal and Non-Proliferation Different views have been expressed by the American non-proliferation lobbyists on possible loss or gain from the Indo-US nuclear agreement. Would the agreement complicate global non-proliferation efforts as the critics... Rajesh Kumar Mishra | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Regime Change in Iraq and Challenges of Political Reconstruction The developments after 9/11 and the rise of neo-conservative thinking in United States accelerated a process that culminated in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The rapid collapse of... Satyanarayan Pattanayak | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Defence Budgeting System: Need for Change In India, the defence budgeting system is incremental and input-based. Yearly allocations of funds are made without reference to the defence plans. In effect, the budget does not get linked... Pravin Joshi | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
The Political Economy of China’s Defence Modernisation World over, differences exist about the impact of military expenditure. While development economists consider excessive military expenditure as wastage, many defence economists have a different view. With the defence versus1... Bhartendu Kumar Singh | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Myanmar: America’s Next Rogue State? There are embryonic signs that Washington is all set to turn the heat on Myanmar. In a marked departure, UN Security Council unanimously agreed on December 2, 2005 to a... P. Stobdan | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
India and the East Asian Summit The inaugural East Asian Summit (EAS), touted as groundbreaking, commenced on December 14 in Kuala Lumpur comprising 16 nations— the 10 ASEAN countries, China, Japan, India, Australia and New Zealand... G.V.C. Naidu | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
