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
Draft DPP 2020 – Legacy Issues in Offset Guidelines It would be advisable to review the proposed offset guidelines keeping in view the feedback from the industry, especially the foreign vendors who carry the primary obligation to execute the offset contract, as also the legacy issues. Amit Cowshish | April 30, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Individual Rights and Collective Good: A Historical Perspective Any dichotomy between the individual rights of the people and the powers of the state has to be dealt with through a nuanced approach. Prakash Menon , Kajari Kamal | April 29, 2020 | IDSA Comments
COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Africa It is the need of the hour that India and the African countries collaborate to control the outbreak of the pandemic and to mitigate its long-term economic impact. Ruchita Beri | April 29, 2020 | IDSA Comments
COVID-19: Impact on Left Wing Extremism in India Although initially the Maoists suffered some setbacks due to the lockdown, their indulgence in violent incidents over the past one month indicates that they are exploiting the situation to have an upper hand vis-à-vis security forces. Rajbala Rana , Mathew Sinu Simon | April 28, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Mosaic Warfare: Redefining Future Battlefield Smaller, smarter, potent and cheaper combat entities — linked and networked – will be at the heart of future warfare. Atul Pant | April 27, 2020 | Issue Brief
COVID-19 and OPEC+ Deal The prevailing environment has underlined the importance of a balanced market to the oil producers. India has been consistently reiterating the need for oil to be priced responsibly to ensure the stability of the oil market. Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Nihar R. Nayak | April 24, 2020 | IDSA Comments
COVID-19 and India’s Defence Spending The inevitable reprioritisation of the central government’s expenditure in the coming union budgets would affect the resource allocations particularly for big ministries like the MoD, which will be forced to realign their business practices. Laxman Kumar Behera | April 24, 2020 | IDSA Comments
