China : Reactions to Iraq Elections China has not issued any official statement on the recently concluded elections in Iraq. However, in a Press Conference on February1, 2005, to a question on the elections, the Foreign... Raviprasad Narayanan | February 15, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Left-Wing Extremism in 2004: An Assessment While cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and multiple insurgencies in the Northeast remain the focus of India’s internal security planning, left-wing extremism (LWE) is gradually becoming another major source... Sanjay K Jha | February 03, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Reorganisation of Security Council A permanent seat in the United Nations (UN) Security Council seems well within India’s grasp. India’s long held aspirations of playing a more active role in the global affairs by... Alok Bansal | January 28, 2005 | IDSA Comments
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
