Strategising India’s Defence Exports What the Strategy for Defence Export tries to achieve is to create institutional mechanisms and establish clear-cut procedures within the overall ambit of the Foreign Trade Export for facilitating arms exports through export promotion/facilitation and export regulation. Laxman Kumar Behera | September 17, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Xi’s Visit: Dawn of a New Era? Modi should talk to Xi and seek an interim boundary solution at least by having some sort of Friendly Pillars, call them Shanti Stupas along the border (almost 500 kilometers) in the Western Sector. P. Stobdan | September 16, 2014 | Issue Brief
Strategic Significance of the India-Australia Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement As Australia and India have to deepen their security cooperation for a peaceful prosperous and stable Asia-Pacific region, both the countries will have to manage global nuclear commerce together. Rajiv Nayan | September 15, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Islamic State not invincible: Need to take Russia, China on board China, like Russia, suffers from domestic terrorism (the Uyghur East Turkestan Islamic Movement). Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has put China on a list of countries accused of persecuting Muslims, thus making it a target for jihad. Sandhya Jain | September 15, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Need to build a good coalition to combat ISIS There is a great traction amongst western countries on building up a coalition to tackle ISIS, but the big question is which countries in West Asia would be able to synchronise western goals with theirs? While the US and its NATO allies, along with France and Australia have been assisting the Kurdish peshmerga, the list of Arab countries willing to work with the West-led coalition is unclear. Rohit Pattnaik | September 09, 2014 | IDSA Comments
India-China Ties: Between Personalities and Principles President Xi Jinping’s visit to India is a new opportunity for infusing momentum in the bilateral relations. Economic dealings would be one aspect of the talks; but neither country can afford to bypass the sensitive security and strategic issues that dog their efforts to bring peace and stability. Jagannath P. Panda | September 05, 2014 | Issue Brief
Nawaz wins this round as army loses plot If Nawaz Sharif now plays his cards well - improves governance, makes his politics more responsive and inclusive, reaches out to opposition and his constituency, doesn’t remain aloof and keeps the parliament and political parties as his back – he could well change the power equations for good. Sushant Sareen | September 05, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Abbott and Modi’s Historic Opportunity As the Australian PM visits India, the future of the two countries relations hinges not so much on their strategic cooperation in the international sphere, as on how meaningfully can Australia help India deal with its enormous human development challenges, including poverty alleviation. Ashutosh Misra | September 04, 2014 | IDSA Comments
India-Japan Relations: New Times, Renewed Expectations The biggest takeaway for India from Prime Minister Modi’s visit is Abe’s assurance of $33.5 billion public and private investment and financing including ODA, doubling Japanese FDI and the number of companies in India over the coming five years. Titli Basu | September 04, 2014 | IDSA Comments
India and the Republic of Korea: Engaged Democracies by Skand R. Tayal At a time when the Republic of Korea (South Korea) occupies considerable space in India’s foreign policy, particularly in its ‘look east’ policy, it is incongruous that there is no corresponding awareness among the people about the country and the India–Korea relationship. Knowledge and understanding about the Korean peninsula and India’s engagement with the region are limited to academia and the miniscule endangered scholarly tribe in elite universities like Jawaharlal Nehru University or Delhi University. Rup Narayan Das | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
