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Obama’s Faulty Trade-Off in East Asia

By giving away Asia to China on a platter, the Obama Administration’s posture undermines its traditional allies (Japan, South Korea, and Australia) as well as its new partners like India.

26/11, The ‘Israeli Way’ and Relevance for India

While countries need to adopt each other’s best practices to deal with the hydra-headed monster called terrorism, there cannot be a magic bullet or a single successful counter-terror strategy.

Africa and Energy Security: Global Issues, Local Responses

Publisher: Academic Foundation

This book represents an effort to go beyond state-centred views of energy security, bridging local perspectives on energy resources and global framing of energy as a security concern.

ISBN 13-978-81-7188-754-5,
Price: ₹ 895/-

South Asia: The Quest For Regional Cooperation

Publisher: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
2009

The papers in book outline the common challenges that the countries face, identify the factors that inhibit inter-state cooperation, acknowledge the costs of non-cooperation, and reaffirm the need for the states in South Asia to shed their differences and engage with each other in meaningful ways.

ISBN 81-86019-61-8
E-copy available

Diversion of Yarlung Tsangpo: A Probability Analysis

The issue of water allocation and water rights of Bangladesh, India and China could form the basis of a framework on which joint cooperation among the three countries can be formulated.

Medha Bisht
November 11, 2009 |
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Acquisition Reform – Lessons from Bernard Gray

If India does not modernize in an evenly spread out manner, it will be faced either with the prospect of its armed forces not being prepared, or rushing to make purchases amidst crises, or creating needless hysteria when frenzied modernization occurs.

Raj Shukla
November 10, 2009 |
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Community Building in the Asia-Pacific: Ideas, Concepts and the United States

Notwithstanding the community formation ideas in different shapes coming from Japan and Australia, the EAS came out with as many as 42 deals on issues ranging from outstanding trade and economic matters to the launch of a human rights commission.

A Possible Afghan Denouement

Post an American exit, China is likely to increase its investments in Afghanistan, provide employment to hundreds of unskilled Afghan workers, and assume the role of regional stabiliser.

North-East India as a Factor in India’s Diplomatic Engagement with Myanmar: Issues and Challenges

In recent years India, along with China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has been following a policy of diplomatic engagement with Myanmar. India has also clarified its diplomatic stand that such a policy engagement will positively serve its national interests.

East Asian Regionalism Vs Asian Regionalism

The appropriate option for the Hatoyama government would be to take incremental steps aimed at building greater confidence and trust amongst Asian nations across a number of policy fronts rather than indulge in advancing grand ideas which appear at the moment unachievable.