COVID-19: A Testing Time for UAE–India Relations? A Perspective from Abu Dhabi Responses against COVID-19 have become one of the defining aspects of the modern-day state system that is testing the organic capacity of nations in particular and the international community in general. Even as most have put in place country-specific counter-COVID-19 measures, there is no denying the fact that the pandemic is an existential crisis that can only be dealt with through national efforts combined with substantial regional and international cooperation. Arabinda Acharya | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
COVID-19 and New Age Technology Humanity is much better equipped today to mitigate the loss in life and collateral economic damage resulting from a pandemic, as demonstrated through the deployment of new-age tools such as artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, neural networks and internet of things. Harish Pillai | May 01, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Impact of COVID-19 on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The global onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic continues as uncertainty swirls around the global economy signalling a slowdown. It is still uncertain how long it will take to arrest the spread of the pandemic and normalcy to be restored. Under the prevailing situation, health has rightly been on the top of the agenda of all the countries which would require scaling up the available health facilities for a robust response. Experts say, until there is a medical solution in the form of vaccine to COVID-19, the health issues will remain the top priority for the governments. Md. Manuar Mukarram | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Has the West Lost It? A Provocation Kishore Mahbubani, Allen Lane, New Delhi, 2018, 105 pp., INR 499 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-241-31286-5 Syed Eesar Mehdi | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
SAARC COVID-19 Fund: Calibrating a Regional Response to the Pandemic The convening of a video conference of the SAARC leaders by the Indian Prime Minister on March 15 to initiate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic came as a surprise to many countries in the region that are fighting the crisis mostly alone, scampering for testing kits, medicines and PPEs and also preparing to deal with the impeding economic crisis. Smruti S. Pattanaik | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century Andrew Yeo, Stanford University Press, Redwood, CA, 2019, US$ 70.00, (Hardcover) $58.99, ISBN-10: 1503608441 Atmaja Gohain Baruah | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Georgia 2008: Conflict Dynamics in the Cyber Domain The article focuses on the Five-Day War, which took place between Georgia and the Russian Federation in August 2008. This war provides the first example of use of cyber-attacks during a conventional military engagement. Miroslav Mareš , Veronika Netolická | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
India in South Asia: Challenges and Management Amit Ranjan (Ed.), Springer, Singapore, 2019, 289 + xxxiii pp., €103.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-981-13-2019-4 Saleh Shahriar | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Deepening Critical Infrastructures in Northeast India: People’s Perspective and Policy Implications Northeast India continues to be an industrially underdeveloped and infrastructurally deficient region. The poor condition of infrastructure in the region demands serious attention. Studies in the region reveal that a people’s perspective of development, i.e., roads, electricity, telecommunications and water, falls rightly within the ambit of critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure is directly linked to economic development, national security, access and availability of educational and health infrastructure. Raile Rocky Ziipao | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Politics and Government in China Guoli Liu, ABC-CLIO, California, 2011, 160 + xxxi pp., US$ 35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-313-35730-5 Rajiv Ranjan | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
