Applying Failure Mode, Effects And Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for Ensuring Mission Reliability of Equipment FMECA of equipment is an effective scientific tool to identify the assemblies, sub-assemblies and components that are critical for the satisfactory performance of equipment. Mahendra Prasad | May 08, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Conscription of Children as Ultras in Manipur The Government of India may perform a catalytic role to activate community-cum-family based endeavours with particular emphasis on sports-related and youth activities—areas in which the Manipuris naturally tend to excel. Gautam Sen | May 04, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Chen Guangcheng and US-China relations: An Epilogue Chen’s departure from the US embassy in Beijing points to the unwillingness and inability of the US to bring to bear any pressure on China on human rights issues. Rukmani Gupta | May 03, 2012 | IDSA Comments
India’s Maritime Core Interests While the maritime doctrine was published by the Indian navy in 2004 and improved upon in 2007, the core interests identified were as seen through the prism of the navy. The national maritime interests of India are distinctly different from the ones identified by the Indian navy and need to be analysed to understand the nuances and the dimensions of such interests so as to promote India's maritime power potential. R. S. Vasan | May 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Nonalignment 2.0: A Realist Critique of An Establishmentarian Perspective From a Realist perspective, the key problem with a Nehruvian/Liberal approach to foreign policy is that it misunderstands power and ignores the centrality of balance of power politics in interstate relations. Rajesh Rajagopalan | May 01, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Charting a Maritime Security Cooperation Mechanism in the Indian Ocean: Sharing Responsibilities among Littoral States and User States The main objective of this article is to highlight the challenge of maritime security in the region geographically bounded by the Indian Ocean. It studies the current status of maritime security in the region from both the traditional and non-traditional points of view. From the traditional security perspective, it examines the strategic interests of the major Indian Ocean players—the China–India competition and India–US relations in particular—in addition to the existing maritime disputes among the littoral states. Nong Hong | May 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Making the Law of the Sea – A Study in the Development of International Law by James Harrison The cornerstone of international law is ‘applicability of law based on consent’. Being bereft of any legislative machinery to legislate international law in the international sphere, the statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adumbrates ‘treaty, customary international law and general principles of law, etc.’, as the sources of international law. Treaties (both bilateral and multilateral) formulation, however, is one such mechanism of codification of international law in which consent is given explicitly to a rule of international law. B.M. Dimri | May 2012 | Strategic Analysis
A Neo-Nixon Doctrine for the Indian Ocean: Helping States Help Themselves In recent years the Indian Ocean has received significant attention from the defence-intellectual community in the United States. However, the actual strategic importance of the region to US interests is less clear. In an environment of fiscal austerity, if commitments abroad are not firmly linked to interests, any significant involvement in a region of secondary concern could contribute to ‘imperial overstretch’. Walter C. Ladwig III | May 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty First Century by James R. Holmes, Andrew Winner and Toshi Yoshihara The 44th book in the Cass Series on Naval Policy and History, this book is an academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy from a Western perspective. Not surprisingly, therefore, it attempts to offer a systematic analysis of the shadow play between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions. Rikeesh Sharma | May 2012 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Critical Role in the Resilience of the Global Undersea Communications Cable Infrastructure Introduction Sarabjeet Singh Parmar , Ronald J. Rapp , Franz-Stefan Gady , Karl Frederick Rauscher | May 2012 | Strategic Analysis
