Japanese Security at the Crossroads: Challenge and Initiatives In the emerging complex security situation in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese security policies appear to be undergoing dramatic changes. The alliance with the US, especially the presence of American troops,... | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Japan’s Changing Role in the US-Japan Security Alliance The US-Japan security arrangements have formed one of the most significant pillars of Japan’s security strategy ever since the end of the Second World War. However, what is noteworthy is... Arpita Mathur | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
Iran-Pakistan Relations: Political and Strategic Dimensions Iran-Pakistan relations have had a distinct characteristic over the past five decades and Islamabad’s clandestine transfer of nuclear technology and materials to Iran underlines its significance. Political and strategic imperatives... Shah Alam | October 2004 | Strategic Analysis
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
