Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Conundrum: No End in Sight Riyadh’s military intervention has neither forced the Houthis to the negotiating table nor has it restored the Hadi government in Sa’naa. Md. Muddassir Quamar | November 09, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Caribbean Air Arms Requirements Offer an Opportunity for India India can become a player of significance as its current MR/ LTA – the Dornier Do-228 – is admirably suited to meet the requirements of Caribbean Air Arms. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | November 07, 2016 | IDSA Comments
ICANN57: A Backgrounder This backgrounder examines the current structure of ICANN, the intricacies of the IANA transition, and the way it will impact the architecture of cyberspace in the future. Natallia Khaniejo | November 04, 2016 | Backgrounder
2017 Conference to Outlaw Nuclear Weapons: Time Ripe for a Stand-Alone Disarmament Instrument? The First Committee vote is a culmination of a long-drawn campaign and marks a dramatic shift in the affairs of the non-proliferation regime. A. Vinod Kumar | November 04, 2016 | Issue Brief
Can Stronger Regional Partnerships Help The UN Promote Global Stability Though no one questions the promise of regional partnerships, there are many impediments in practically achieving it as is evident from past partnership missions of the UN. Rajeesh Kumar | November 04, 2016 | IDSA Comments
US–Russia Confrontation and a New Global Balance Although the US–Russia relations are hardly the central axis of contemporary international relations, the systemic confrontation between Moscow and Washington, which began in 2014, will become a decisive factor for the emerging international order. This confrontation was caused by factors much deeper than a mere clash of national interests in Ukraine or Syria. Dmitry Suslov | November 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Russia and the European Union: Lessons Learned and Goals Ahead The current crisis and pause in development of the EU–Russia relations provide a unique chance to shed the burden of past problems and start new relations from scratch. Both sides should sort out their values and get rid of the ballast generated by the bureaucratic inertia or false understandings of partnership. Russia and Europe are unlikely to evolve a common vision for the future. Their future is not in unity but in co-existing next to each other. It is time that Russia and the EU clearly formulate their real interests and try to make relations predictable. Timofei Bordachev | November 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Myth or Reality? The article discusses the changes in Russia’s policy towards Asia, arguing that Russia’s pivot to Asia is a reality, one that is motivated by both political and economic interests. And although that shift is not progressing as quickly as some might want and occasionally encounters difficulties, the process has definitely begun and is in all likelihood irreversible. Only a small, marginal segment of Russian society continues to dream of unity with Europe—which itself has entered a period of severe crisis. Alexander Lukin | November 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Power Politics: How China and Russia Reshape the World by Rob de Wijk A lot of literature has appeared in recent years on how Russia and China have come to present a common challenge to the US-led world order. But the author of the book Power Politics: How China and Russia Reshape the World, Rob de Wijk, has propounded a different theory to prove a case rather in an ominous way that the old-style power politics has never gone away from the global scene even after the end of the Cold War. P. Stobdan | November 2016 | Strategic Analysis
The Domestic Linkages to Eurasian States’ Perception on Global Politics: ‘Normative Idioms’ versus Empirical Practices Eurasia’s preponderance in global politics is gaining because of its location, resources, as well as mosaic population having diverse ethnic backgrounds. Since the invasion by the Mongolians in the 13th century, Eurasia as a geopolitical unity, attempted by Chengiz Khan, has been the foundation for Russia’s policies towards this region, which has been a hotbed of competition among the Persian, Turkic and Russian Tsarist empires, and the British Empire also competed for influence in the region. Nalin Kumar Mohapatra | November 2016 | Strategic Analysis
