Tsunami Reveals Indian Military’s Humanitarian Response Capability The tsunami tragedy that struck large parts of Southern Asia abutting the Bay of Bengal and the South Eastern Indian Ocean littoral has been a tragic start for the New... C Uday Bhaskar | January 08, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Safeguarding the Malacca Straits The Southeast Asian states are critically dependent on regional sea-lanes for trade since most of them have embarked on the philosophy of export-led development. These are also the energy lifelines... Gurpreet S Khurana | January 05, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Indo-Pak Ties and Visit of Pak PM Shaukat Aziz The intense media interest and the more modest outcome of what ultimately transpired after the just concluded visit of the Pakistani PM Mr. Shaukat Aziz to New Delhi is in... C Uday Bhaskar | January 05, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Issues and Challenges in Modern Peace Operations In the last decade, there have been fundamental changes in the nature, form and variety of peace operations. In fact, the very coining of a new term, ‘Peace Operations’ (PO),... B.S. Prakash , K. Nandini | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
The Problem of Kashmir and the Problem in Kashmir: Divergence Demands Convergence India and Pakistan have fought four wars over Kashmir and have held several rounds of talks to resolve the 57-year-old issue, but without any tangible success. The only progress thus... Ashutosh Misra | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Travails of Intelligence Assessment: From Failed to Fertile Imagination September 11, according to the Commission that investigated that catastrophic event, was a result of a failure of imagination. Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, on the other hand, could... S. Kalyanaraman | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Myth of the Monolith: The Challenge of Diversity in Pakistan The paper seeks to study the challenges faced by the Pakistani state from the perspective of its vast ethno-cultural diversity which problematises the process of-nation building attempted by the Pakistani... Ashok K. Behuria | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
India-US Relations: A Paradigm Shift An attempt has been made in this article to assess the arguments in favour of a fundamental shift in Indo-US relations by revisiting the history of their bilateral relations since... Bhabani Mishra | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
India-Pakistan: Nuclear Stability and Diplomacy The conceptual discourse, contributed to in the main by Western scholars, on the security and strategic stability of new nuclear weapon states like India and Pakistan seems alarmist. In reality,... Rajesh Kumar Mishra | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
Emerging Frontiers of US Dual-Use Export Control Laws The paper examines the salient features of the principal statutory authority, the Export Administration Act (EAA), that is, at present, governing dual-use technology control in the US, and the frontiers... Rajiv Nayan | January 2005 | Strategic Analysis
