United Nations: Multilateralism and International Security Publishers: IDSA and Shipra ISBN: 81-7541-224-0 Rs 1250 US $ 80 Uttam Kumar Sinha , C Uday Bhaskar , K. Santhanam , Tasneem Meenai | | Book
Vote at IAEA Not Anti-Iranian But Pro-India The Indian vote at the IAEA in Vienna last week has attracted considerable domestic attention and the fact that New Delhi went along with the US-EU position is being interpreted... C Uday Bhaskar | October 06, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Railway to Lhasa: An Assessment On October 12, 2005, China announced the completion of a railway line to Tibet—one of the world’s highest train routes. This railway line climbs 5,072m (16,640ft) above sea level and... Raviprasad Narayanan | October 2005 | Strategic Analysis
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