Rear Admiral Raja Menon (Retd), ed., Weapons of Mass Destruction: Options for India Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, collectively known as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), present a serious danger to humanity. These weapons, once recognised as tools of deterrence available to State... Ajey Lele | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
New Threats to Oil and Gas in West Asia: Issues in India’s Energy Security Unlike other aspects of non-traditional security, energy security has been very closely linked with military security. Very often, it is the powerful state-consumers seeking to preserve an uninterrupted supply of... Gulshan Dietl | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
External Linkages and Internal Security: Assessing Bhutan’s Operation All Clear Disruption of terrorist networks - intra-regional, inter-regional and trans-national - should be supplementary to the overall counterterrorism strategy. Larger issues including socio-economic and cultural can only be addressed in the... Praveen Kumar | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean: Convergence Plus Cooperation Equals Resonance The post-Cold War period has witnessed significant maritime developments. The intensification of trade-linked development and the entry into force of the Laws of the Seas in 1994 led to state... Gurpreet S Khurana | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Indo-Pak Relations and the SAARC Summits The uncertainties regarding regular SAARC meetings have clouded the prospect of regional cooperation. Though India has been accused as the main culprit, other member-countries are no less responsible for the... Smruti S. Pattanaik | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Iranian Nuclear Programme and Pakistan: Implications of the Linkages Against all odds, Iran is pressing hard to prove its nuclear innocence and keeping its promises under the provisions of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The US is refusing... Rajesh Kumar Mishra | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Nepal: Quest for Elusive Peace Amidst the continuously expanding sphere of Maoist influence, political uncertainties and growing international interest, Nepal continues to remain one of the most volatile countries in South Asia. Recent developments have,... Sanjay K Jha | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Attack on Sheikh Hasina On August 21, 2004, a little before 5.30 in the evening, there was a grenade attack on the Awami League leader, Sheikh Hasina Wajed. This occurred soon after she concluded... Sreeradha Datta | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
The 9/11 Report: Reaffirming Pakistan-Terrorism Nexus The 585-page National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Report that investigated the plot, design and circumstances leading to the 9/11 attacks on the US has highlighted the... Parama Sinha Palit | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Import of 9/11 Against Beslan Backdrop Beslan, till recently an unknown small town in Russia, has become the latest ‘victim-symbol’ in the global pattern of terrorist violence. The manner in which innocent young children were slaughtered... C Uday Bhaskar | July 2004 | Strategic Analysis
