Response to Dr. Vishal Chandra’s Article ‘India in the Afghan Maze’ Responding to Dr. Vishal Chandra's article ‘India in the Afghan Maze: Search for Options’ allows me the opportunity to update and improve upon the suggestions I had made in my commentary ‘Af-Pak and India's Options in Afghanistan’ (Strategic Analysis, 34(5), 2010, pp. 683–689). Mahendra Ved | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Turkey–Brazil Involvement in Iranian Nuclear Issue: What Is the Big Deal? The Iranian nuclear stand-off is still a major issue in global politics. From international players like the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, to individual states, almost each country has its own stake in the issue. However, the recent deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil has not only changed the nature of the issue, but also the discussion itself. The deal has changed the nature because the one-sided dialogue between the international community and Iran is no longer relevant. Mehmet Ozkan | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
New Nepal: The Fault Lines by Nishchal Nath Pandey Sage, New Delhi, 2010, ISBN 9788132103165 Nihar R. Nayak | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Options within the Afghan Maze Although General David Petraeus emphatically stated that the United States of America is not in Afghanistan to lose the war, the fact remains that the decade-long war on terror against the Taliban and shadow boxing the al Qaida has lost its aim and purpose, reaching levels of absurdity at a cost of over a trillion dollars and yet the US will not win the war! Every effort of General Petraeus to win will only escalate the conflict and that is not in the best interests of Afghanistan and the US. B. R. Muthu Kumar | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Changing Face of Turkey Turkey is blessed with a favourable geography. It straddles Asia and Europe, is surrounded by sea on three sides, controls the only link to the Black Sea, and has moderate climatic conditions, abundant energy resources in its neighbourhood and a defensible terrain. It also has the civilisational and historical past, having ruled over large swathes of territory including North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Europe in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire. Rumel Dahiya | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Bhutan 2010: Foreign Policy Developments Security and development cooperation have become the twin pillars of the India-Bhutan relationship. Medha Bisht | December 30, 2010 | IDSA Comments
India’s Season of Summits The world needs India as a balancer – in trade, as a market, as an alternative model, and as a world power. Sujit Dutta | December 30, 2010 | IDSA Comments
India-China Relations: It’s the economy, and no one’s stupid This Brief uses irony to communicate five propositions, that can be found in several discourses on Sino-Indian ties. It evaluates these propositions in the light of the tangible and intangible gains from Premier Wen Jiabao’s second official visit to India. Joe Thomas Karackattu | December 28, 2010 | Issue Brief
Examining the Maoist Resurgence in Andhra The Maoists are trying to cash in on major issues like Telangana to expand their mass base in Andhra from where hail their top leadership. Uddipan Mukherjee | December 28, 2010 | IDSA Comments
ISRO cannot afford failures ISRO needs to conduct a thorough enquiry particularly because failure in a time-tested and launch proven “stage one technology” is undesirable. Ajey Lele | December 28, 2010 | IDSA Comments
