China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society Abanti Bhattacharya January 2009 Strategic Analysis
A Military History of Modern China: From the Manchu Conquest to Tian’anmen Square Jagannath P. Panda January 2009 Strategic Analysis
The Great Powers and the Sub-Continent: A New Phase? The emergence of Bangladesh as a sovereign independent republic and the manner in which it so emerged has radically altered the relative position of the Great Powers in South Asia. The change has been particularly remarkable for the two Super Powers, though the other three Great Powers also have been affected in one way or the other by the developments of 1971. Sisir Gupta January 2009 Strategic Analysis
New Challenges of Cyberwar: Stocktaking from Mumbai Experience The November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks have highlighted the new challenges posed by cyberwar. A faked telephone call from the India Foreign Minister to the Pakistani President caused a diplomatic flutter. It appears that the new civilian leadership in Pakistan was not aware of diplomatic protocol involved in such telephonic contacts and was fooled into believing that this was indeed a genuine communication. P. K. Gautam December 31, 2008 IDSA Comments
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis November 2008 T. Khurshchev Singh , Alok Bansal December 31, 2008 IDSA Comments
‘Transformational Elections’ in Bangladesh As Bangladesh is holding its most closely watched general elections, the apprehension remains whether democracy would prevail in the country. All the uncertainties about the elections were removed when the interim authority repealed the state of emergency that had been prevailing in the country since January 11, 2007. It was on that day that a military backed caretaker government had assumed power after months of political strife and failure of the earlier caretaker government headed by President Iajuddin Ahmed to hold free and fair elections. Anand Kumar December 29, 2008 IDSA Comments
