Post-War Afghanistan: Reconstructing a Failed State Afghanistan once represented a fragmented and failed socio-economic and political entity. Operation Enduring Freedom, while targeting the Taliban and Al Qaida as part of the global war on terrorism helped... K. R. Singh | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Trends in European Defence Industries in the 1990s: An Assessment Significant changes have been witnessed in major centres of military production in recent times. Since the end of the Cold War, indicators of military production – expenditure, R&D expenditure, demand... Deba R. Mohanty | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Religious Identity in Central Asia: Global-Local Interplay This article covers the problems of religious identities in two Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – and analyses how globalisation and modernisation influenced them. International relations theories as... Laura Yerekeshva | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Tsunami Tragedy: Indian Response and Anomalous Apathy C Uday Bhaskar | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Narasimha Rao and the Bomb In the background of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s obituary tribute to P.V. Narasimha Rao acknowledging the latter as the true father of Shakti nuclear test of May 11,... K. Subrahmanyam | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
New US Administration and Its Approach to Foreign Policy President Bush has announced Condoleezza Rice as the new Secretary of State in his second term. Her deputy at the National Security Council, Stephen Hadley, has been named as the... Parama Sinha Palit | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Elections in Palestine: Progress or Regress Yasser Arafat’s death on November 11, 2004, sparked off apprehensions regarding consequent political turmoil, civil war, increase in violence, confusion over future leadership and a subsequent state of chaos and... Tanya Mohan | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Darfur Crisis: A Consequence of Inaction On November 19, 2004, the UN Security Council convened an unusual session on Sudan’s doorstep, in Nairobi at the end of which they unanimously adopted a resolution promising political and... Nivedita Ray | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Manipur and Armed Forces (Special Power) Act 1958 Introduction Anil Kamboj | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
