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
Revisiting the Discourse on Strategic Culture: An Assessment of the Conceptual Debates Strategic culture as a concept is generally understood as pertaining to the influence of the cultural dimension in national strategy. The concept rose to prominence due to the inability of the structural realist theory to explain differences in behavioural patterns among nations. However, a diverse array of perspectives has evolved on the concept, spanning four generations of theorization, giving rise to numerous debates. Anand V. | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958 Pang Yang Huei, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2019, 336 pp., US$55.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-988-8208-30-2 Priyanka Pandit | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Ladakh: India’s Gateway to Central Asia Ladakh is one of the largest administrative units in India, in terms of its territory. Due to its contiguity with Xinjiang and Tibet and its close proximity to Central Asia, and enjoying a central position in the network of overland caravan routes that were linked to the Silk Route, Ladakh acted as an important gateway in the Indo-Central Asian exchange of men, materials and ideas through the ages. K. Warikoo | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy Ian Hall, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2019, 236 pp., £75.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1529204605 Bharat Wariavwalla | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Israel’s Mediterranean Gas: Domestic Governance, Economic Impact, and Strategic Implications Sujata Ashwarya, Israel’s Mediterranean Gas: Domestic Governance, Economic Impact, and Strategic Implications, Routledge, London and New York, 2019, 312 pp., Rs.1,495 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-37503-4 I. P. Khosla | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
