Indo-Bangladesh Relations: An Enduring Partnership? Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is visiting India on January 10, 2009. Both India and Bangladesh are looking foward to resolving some of the key bilateral issues. In the light of the new political climate in Bangladesh ever since Sheikh Hasina returned to power, what are the options for India? Sreeradha Datta | January 06, 2010 | Issue Brief
Dynamics of Indo-Myanmar Economic Ties Clearly, there is immense scope for cooperation between India and Myanmar to deal in agro-based products, floriculture, engineering, timber and tobacco and expand business cooperation. Although there has been a significant increase in bilateral trade in recent years, full potential has yet to be realised. Saurabh | January 06, 2010 | IDSA Comments
The PLA on Diplomatic Front in 2009 The participation of the PLA Navy in escort missions in foreign waters is a radical departure from the historical point of view because this is the first time that the PLA Navy is carrying out such tasks not in national waters. Prashant Kumar Singh | January 06, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Japan Beefs up its Naval Capability To assuage fears, Japan might see merit to take India on board in the form of a naval cooperation framework to secure peace at sea. Developments in the past 4-5 years in India-Japan relations point towards that direction. Rajaram Panda | January 05, 2010 | Issue Brief
Rising China at Copenhagen Given the divergence of views in the industrialized and industrializing countries as was demonstrated at Copenhagen, it is too early to expect any comprehensive result from the Copenhagen Accord. One needs to wait till June 2010 if the UN meeting at Bonn will yield a different outcome. Simi Thambi | January 05, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Copenhagen Accord has initiated a drift in climate change negotiations The Copenhagen Accord is weak and a step back from the Bali Action Plan which talked about four pillars of negotiations – mitigation, adaptation, financial support and technology transfer. Arvind Gupta | January 04, 2010 | IDSA Comments
The US Navy in Distress In February 2009, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Port Royal ran aground about a half mile south of the Honolulu airport. The Navy's investigation found that the ship's navigational gear was broken and that the ship's fathometer wasn't functioning. In simple terms the bridge didn't know where the ship was. The investigation subsequently discovered that the commanding officer was exhausted, sleep-deprived, and that sailors who were nominally assigned to stand watch against such incidents were assigned elsewhere in the ship to cover manning shortages. Seth Cropsey | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh, 2006–2008 by Sreeradha Datta Shantanu Chakrabarti | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
A Delphi Assessment on the Current Developments in Pakistan Arvind Gupta , Ashok K. Behuria | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
A New Perspective in Iranian Politics The New Iranian Leadership: Ahmadinejad, Terrorism, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East by Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
