Ruling AKP in Turkey Gets a Lifeline The AKP needs to go over the fundamentals of its decade long success in the country before it charts its future course. Its success in the previous decade was built on the pillars of national consolidation, economic growth and religious tolerance. Agarwal, Rajeev November 05, 2015 IDSA Comments
Vienna Conference on Syria The Vienna Conference was far from a gathering of powers with common goals. The key powers involved have yet to reach the conclusion that it is in their interest to end the multiple wars raging in Syria. K. P. Fabian November 03, 2015 IDSA Comments
Enabling Transition of a Soldier to Second Career through Skilling The wellbeing of veterans and their transition to a second career by ensuring implementable policy initiatives is a national obligation. This not only has a welfare agenda but also an economic sense to it. Pradeep Sofat November 02, 2015 IDSA Comments
Dams as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: Geopolitical Implications for Pakistan Pakistani planners are increasingly prone to recognize the many links between water, food, and energy security. The construction of new large dams is seen by many as a concrete measure to achieve resource security for Pakistani for a future marked by climactic variability and unpredictability. This article explores the geopolitical and political geographic implications of Pakistan’s strategic vision of building dams as a way to prepare for climate change. Majed Akhter November 2015 Strategic Analysis
Where Hawks Dwell on Water and Bankers Build Power Poles: Transboundary Waters, Environmental Security and the Frontiers of Neo-liberalism Hydropower development clearly has a significant role to play in the closer integration of different parts of the Himalayas and in facilitating downstream benefits throughout South Asia. However, the neo-liberal approach to infrastructure-led growth frequently overlooks the significant social, economic and political issues associated with this model of development in the region. Furthermore, the ongoing securitisation of water constrains the terms of debate under the guise of a unified national interest and enables large-scale dams to be constructed without due process. Douglas P. Hill November 2015 Strategic Analysis
Nations without Borders: Climate Security and the South in the Epoch of the Anthropocene The standard narrative on modern geopolitics is being re-scripted. Previous ingredients that made up the literature on high politics such as securing resources, rivalries over the control of territory and war plans are increasingly being replaced instead by concerns about the ‘mundane’ politics of global energy plans, food systems, infrastructure and city design. Meaningful geopolitics in the time of climate change, in other words, would now have to grapple with the inescapable urgency for sustaining key ecological, biological and atmospheric indicators at the planetary level. Rohan D’Souza November 2015 Strategic Analysis
The Promise of China’s Cooperative Behaviour towards India M.S. Prathibha November 2015 Strategic Analysis
Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World: Revisiting Kautilya and his Arthashastra in the Third Millennium Shounak Set November 2015 Strategic Analysis
Recasting Sino-Indian Relations: Towards a Closer Development Partnership Sino-Indian relations were governed by concerns about an unsound bilateral bonhomie, internal as well as external strategic and political considerations, and in addition, national interests and priorities not necessarily oriented towards pacifying the bilateral relations. Keshab Chandra Ratha , Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra November 2015 Strategic Analysis
Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Deconstructing India’s Doctrinal Response The military and scientific leadership of Pakistan has given clear signals that tactical nuclear weapons have a vital role in Pakistan’s nuclear weapons policy. Developed to lower Pakistan’s nuclear threshold, these weapons may further deter India from launching a conventional strike to punish Pakistan for its sub-conventional war against India. This has led to a debate on the possible doctrinal responses that India could adopt to counter Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons. Arka Biswas November 2015 Strategic Analysis
