Who is Supporting Jundullah’s Terror Campaign and Why? From its base in Pakistan’s Baluchistan, Jundallah has had opportunities to forge cooperative ties not only with the ISI but also with the Taliban as well as with the intelligence services of countries interested in stoking anti-Iranian activism. Balaji Chandramohan | November 06, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Shadow over the Latest Nuclear Deal with Iran The draft deal is envisaged as a test of Iran’s intentions, and from the Iranian point of view as a test of Western countries’ assurance to facilitate its peaceful nuclear programme. M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | November 05, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Need for a Resource Generation and Management Cell in Defence The orientation of the existing administrative set up in Service Headquarters and in departments under the Ministry of Defence is to plan for the utilization of defence budget allocation. They are not in a position to pay attention to the aspect of defence receipts. Arvind Kadyan | November 05, 2009 | IDSA Comments
A Possible Afghan Denouement Post an American exit, China is likely to increase its investments in Afghanistan, provide employment to hundreds of unskilled Afghan workers, and assume the role of regional stabiliser. Ramesh Phadke | November 03, 2009 | IDSA Comments
America’s Afghan Sojourn The US may have satiated its desire for vengeance but risks losing sight of its objectives due to liberal atavism, inconstancy, pusillanimity and operational ineptitude. Kartik Bommakanti | November 03, 2009 | IDSA Comments
A Year after 26/11: Soft Responses of a Reluctant State Why are the two largest democracies – India and the United States – starkly different when it comes to tackling terrorism? The answer to this perplexing question could lie in the two countries' divergent approach to security and management of national security resources. Equally relevant is the variance in their political resoluteness in exercising suitable responses to emergent threats. A. Vinod Kumar | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
North-East India as a Factor in India’s Diplomatic Engagement with Myanmar: Issues and Challenges In recent years India, along with China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has been following a policy of diplomatic engagement with Myanmar. India has also clarified its diplomatic stand that such a policy engagement will positively serve its national interests. Pradip Saikia | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Climate Summit at Copenhagen: Negotiating the Intractable Climate change is hugely challenging. But there is an unmistakable straightforwardness to it – reduce emissions to reduce global warming. In many ways, this reflects the sum total of the paradoxes that define our reality and the contradictions and hypocrisy of coping and dealing with it. Climate change raises all the right concerns from effectively all the right quarters. But concerns require actions and that is where the debate starts, the positions get entrenched and more often than not words and gestures become hollow and empty. Uttam Kumar Sinha | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Pakistan’s HEU-based Nuclear Weapons Programme and Nuclear Terrorism: A Reality Check In order to construct an operational nuclear device, terrorists need to obtain the requisite fissile materials - Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) or plutonium. It has been proved that, generally, it is much simpler to devise a crude nuclear bomb with HEU than with plutonium. Hence, terrorists can have 'reasonable confidence' in the performance of weapons-grade HEU bombs. The magnitude of the threat of nuclear terrorism from Pakistan's HEU-based nuclear weapons programme is assuming alarming proportions. However, adequate preventive steps can be taken to minimize the danger. Reshmi Kazi | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
