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
India’s Eastward Engagement: From Antiquity to Act East Policy Dhesegaan Bala Krishnan | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
COVID-19: Projecting the National Security Dimensions of Pandemics National security—in its traditional sense—is associated with the protection of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of a state, as well as its critical interests abroad. However, the lethal nature of pandemics is increasingly raising scientific awareness about their national security dimensions. Segun Oshewolo , Agaptus Nwozor | May 2020 | Strategic Analysis
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
