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
India’s Renewable Energy Challenge India is being subjected to increasing pressure from the developed countries to cut down on its carbon emissions on the grounds that it is the fifth largest consumer of energy. This comes even as there are forecasts that India's energy consumption will increase incrementally as it tries to address the challenges of its social and development goals by increasing and sustaining economic growth at around 8–10 per cent of its GDP. Shebonti Ray Dadwal | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The US Approach to the Islamic World in the Post 9/11 Era by Chintamani Mahapatra Archana Mishra | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Is Pakistan Collapsing? Assumptions, Assertions, and Precautions Medha Bisht | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
