Mosaics of Cultures: Investigating the Role of Cultural Linkages in India-Indonesia Relations The cultural linkages between India and Indonesia have to be leveraged, as a foreign policy tool, to take India-Indonesia relations to the next level. Rahul Mishra | January 19, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Gates Mission: Re-contextualising US alliances in East Asia Gates has steered Japan and South Korea towards aligning their shared threat perceptions about North Korea and China. Preeti Nalwa | January 18, 2011 | IDSA Comments
The Human Element in Military Effectiveness: A Systems Approach This paper examines the human issues in the entire system that could make the military more effective recognising the military as a sub-system within the larger system, which is created to address the aims of that very system. It asserts that there is no requirement to institute committees or make any more laws to address the human element issues relating to military effectiveness. The existing politico-legal system being adequate, there is no need for ‘novel’ or ‘creative’ solutions but only the will to effectively and ruthlessly apply them. Suryakant Bal | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
Blasphemy Law and the Marginalisation of Pakistan’s Moderate Muslims By concentrating only on the inequities of the blasphemy law, Pakistani ‘moderates’ and commentators elsewhere are missing the point that the real battle is against radical Islamic thought. Sushant Sareen | January 17, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Army ‘Transformation’: A ‘Radical’ One? A shift in strategic thinking over the past two decades has now led to India being poised between the strategic doctrines of offensive and defensive realism. Ali Ahmed | January 17, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Military Diplomacy This paper provides conceptual and practical aspects of military diplomacy. It examines India’s recent efforts in enhancing its military diplomacy vis-àvis Chinese military diplomacy conundrum in Asia, especially in South and Southeast Asia. It points out that India’s inability to evince trust and goodwill with its neighbours has led to most of them preferring to employ military diplomacy with China as an India-specific countervailing factor. It argues that India’s military diplomacy is yet to catch up with its rising power status. KA Muthanna | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
Chemical Weapon Profile: Libya Recently, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya drew a lot of international attention following the violent crackdown on the protests there. As the situation deteriorated further, the possibility of Colonel… Continue reading Chemical Weapon Profile: Libya Pranamita Baruah | January-June 2011 | CBW Magazine
Jagannath P. Panda, China’s Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition, New Delhi: Pentagon Security International, 2010 It is not very often in India, that comes across a book about China that goes beyond the traditional subject of India-China relations. Jagannath P. Panda’s book China’s Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition does exactly that. Prashant Kumar Singh | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
Inter-Korea Dialogue versus Japan-South Korea Military Engagement North Korea’s offer of a dialogue is unlikely to elicit a positive response from South Korea which instead is militarily drawing closer to Japan to enhance deterrence. Rajaram Panda | January 14, 2011 | IDSA Comments
NATO and Russia: Move towards Cooperation or Deployments After Lisbon, the next step for NATO and Russia should be addressing issues relating to deployments of arsenals and arms control. Joyce Sabina Lobo | January 13, 2011 | IDSA Comments
