Naga ‘Framework Agreement’ and Its Aftermath Differing perceptions among the various stakeholders has emerged because the contents of the framework agreement are not in the public domain. Pradeep Singh Chhonkar | September 01, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Flimsy Reading of History Fails to Predict Tibet’s Future Prof P. Stobdan (Senior Fellow, IDSA)’s reading of history fails to predict Tibet’s future from the beginning. The Dalai Lama has informed the Tibetan people about his thinking on the succession issue since as early as 1969. Later on September 24, 2011, the Dalai Lama took a definite position on the succession issue, where the Dalai Lama made it very clear that the decision to continue or not continue with the institution of the Dalai Lama lies with the Tibetan people. The real reason for ‘Younghusband’s visit’ to Tibet was not to lay a telegraph line. Tenzin Tsultrim | September 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Identity, contestation and development in Northeast India by Komol Singha and M. Amarjeet Singh Inhabited by numerous tribes and sub-tribes with fierce clan loyalties, the north-east of India has been plagued by identity-inspired insurgencies since independence. The first of these insurgencies was that of the Naga National Council (NNC) in the mid-1950s. Subsequent decades saw the outbreak of other, similar, insurgencies among the Meiteis, Mizos, Assamese and Boroks. Pushpita Das | September 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Andean Cosmovision and Diplomacy for Life The concept of ‘Vivir Bien´ or ´Good Life’ has emerged in Bolivia’s political, policy and diplomatic discourse after the ascension to power of Evo Morales in December 2005, the first person of indigenous ethnicity to be President of Bolivia. In South Asia and other parts of the world much is known about Bhutan’s Index of Happiness, but little is heard about ‘Vivir Bien’ or ‘Good Life’, the ideology of Life, Politics and Diplomacy emanating from Bolivia, in the heart of Latin America. Sandeep Chakravorty | September 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Australia and India in Asia: When ‘Look West’ Meets Act East The recent Australian decision to extend civilian nuclear cooperation to India, overriding its own long-term principled position, is no ordinary development. Taking that as a starting point, this article seeks to set out the context and rationale for an all-round and long-term closer relationship between the two countries. Vishal Ranjan | September 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Revival of the Russian Military: An Assessment Russia’s military intervention in Syria – its first beyond its immediate neighbourhood since the end of the Cold War – highlights the significant transformation that its armed forces have gone through. Rajorshi Roy | August 31, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Argentina’s Military Decline While the Argentinian military’s desperate state of affairs can be partly blamed on the country’s economic woes, a substantial portion of the blame must fall on the somewhat tense relationship between the military and the civilian government. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | August 30, 2016 | IDSA Comments
A French Solution to India’s Defence Acquisition Problem The biggest lesson that India can borrow is France’s integrated and centralised procurement structure, which has the dual responsibility of arms acquisition and defence industrial development. Laxman Kumar Behera | August 29, 2016 | Special Feature
Rebuilding the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard A scramble for assets between the years 2013 and 2015 culminated in the procurement of a fleet of vessels that have restored a degree of capability and viability to the TTCG. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | August 26, 2016 | IDSA Comments
NSG and China’s Grand Strategic Flip-flops: Some Plausible Explanations Given that the NSG may not be able to withhold the India membership question for long, in spite of China’s inconsistent positions, it would be unwise on India’s part to forfeit any advantage it has on the SCS issue. A. Vinod Kumar | August 24, 2016 | IDSA Comments
