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
Ongoing Revision of Indian Army Doctrine The point of significance is that even as the Army prepares for the worst case, it would be a political-diplomatic-strategic exercise to ensure that such a scenario does not arise. Ali Ahmed | 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
Is Pakistan Collapsing? Assumptions, Assertions, and Precautions Medha Bisht | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Geopolitical Stipulation of Central Asian Integration The overall post-Soviet and post-Cold War transformation of the five Central Asian countries is multifaceted and complicated. New geopolitics has penetrated into almost all critically important spheres of post-Soviet transformation. Geopolitics even influences spheres such as national self-identification, which is traditionally regarded as having nothing to do with geopolitics. That is why one can assume that geopolitics stipulates regional integration as well. Farkhod Tolipov | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): An Economic and Political Perspective Indian presence in the Gulf region is civilizational and has developed into a vibrant relationship over the years. With the emergence of India as a large economic power and with the Gulf region simultaneously witnessing spectacular economic growth, economic trends are reinforcing mutual interdependence. While India's economic presence in the region has transformed from barter exchanges between merchants and Indian human capital, India's political presence has remained more or less subdued. Samir Pradhan | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The Iran–Pakistan–India Natural Gas Pipeline: Implications and Challenges for Regional Security This research article examines the rationale for Iran, Pakistan, and India entering into a trade agreement to meet their economic, political, and strategic needs as well as the constraints and challenges that still hamper such an agreement from realizing its full potential. Using the gas pipeline project as a case study, the issues of energy security (as the independent variable) and of economic interdependence (as the dependent variable) highlight the importance of cooperation among these countries. Anjali Sahay , Jalil Roshandel | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
