Oslo, A Distant Dream but No Mirage While, violence, extremism and short-sighted leadership have buried Oslo, it still remains the only option for the Israelis and Palestinians alike. P. R. Kumaraswamy | September 13, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Relocate the Security Forces to Lift Economic Blockade on NH-2 The government can redeploy a segment of the security forces at choke points along NH-2 to prevent the various tribal groups from imposing the blockade and keep the line of communications open. Shivananda H | September 12, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Delhi Terror Attacks: Need for some Soul Searching The need of the hour is to devise a counter-terrorism strategy which is well-coordinated and led by specialized units with superior intelligence-gathering and assessment skills. Namrata Goswami | September 08, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Challenges Before Noda Yoshihiko If Noda falters, Japan’s importance in the global community would be considerably diminished and it will be left with the role of a marginal power Rajaram Panda | September 06, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Continuing ‘State of Emergency’ in Sri Lanka Removing emergency regulations while continuing with militarisation and a massive project of policing in socio-cultural arenas do not indicate a journey towards normalcy. Amali Wedagedara | September 05, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Diana: A Human Face to Expatriates Until I met Diana, the South Asian Diaspora in the Middle East meant six million Indians, $50 billion in annual remittances and the problems of evacuation during crises. Diana put a human face to that understanding. P. R. Kumaraswamy | September 05, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Public Private Partnership In Procurement Practices An efficient, transparent PPP policy dovetailed with an effective FDI framework will not only ensure that state-of-the-art defence equipment is procured but will also be instrumental in enabling transfer of technology. Venu Gopal | September 05, 2011 | IDSA Comments
The Arctic as a Global Common India’s ‘strategic community’ must take the lead in articulating the debating the idea of including the Arctic in the discourse on global commons. P. K. Gautam | September 02, 2011 | Issue Brief
China’s ‘Military Diplomacy’: Investigating PLA’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations The central focus of this article is to understand the evolution of the Chinese People's Liberation Army's engagement with UN peacekeeping operations in the light of China's military diplomacy. The article underlines that the PLA works as a foreign policy instrument in UN peacekeeping operations and furthers China's foreign policy agenda in many ways. Prashant Kumar Singh | September 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India’s International Relations: A Systems Approach The national security of India rests on two basic and mutually supporting premises. The first, of course, is the internal strength, cohesiveness, and firmness of purpose of the nation. The second is the ability of the country to exist and develop in a changing international environment, the hostility or friendship of which is rarely certain and never absolute. It is with the second aspect that we concern ourselves in this article. K. Saigal | September 2011 | Strategic Analysis
