Strategic Himalayas: Republican Nepal and External Powers Publisher: Pentagon Press The ten years of Maoist insurgency followed by the political vacuum after the abolition of the monarchy and the delay in the drafting of the Constitution has given credence to the role of external powers in shaping the domestic politics in that country. The book examines the nature of external powers’ role during the political transition in Nepal since 2006. It analyses Nepal’s relations with external powers’ in the framework of ‘small and major powers’. ISBN 978-81-8274-761-6, Price: ₹ 995 E-copy available Nihar R. Nayak | | Book
Towards an Aspirational (Ethical) Code under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Engaging the Life Science Community Malcolm Dando , Tatyana Novossiolova , Michael Crowley , Lijun Shang | January-June 2021 | Strategic Analysis
India and Africa: Common Security Challenges for the Next Decade Publisher: Pentagon Press Over the coming decade, converging global security challenges will necessitate combined efforts by states to manage threats and maximise opportunities. Among the most significant challenges that India and Africa will face in paricular, are reforms in global governance institutions, maritime security threats in the Indian Ocean, energy insecurity and the rise of extremism and terrorism. This volume combines Indian and African perspectives with regard to the common security challenges they are likely to face in the foreseeable future. ISBN 978-81-8274-860-6, Price: ?. 595 E-copy available Ruchita Beri | | Book
The Geopolitics of Gas: Common Problems, Disparate Strategies Publisher: Pentagon Press This volume looks at the evolving gas market and the various players who influence it -- both as producers and consumers. However, some of the players, such as Australia and the new African producers, as well as Japan and South Korea, the two largest LNG consumers, have not been included as their approach tends to be more commercial than geopolitical in nature. ISBN 978-81-8274-900-9, Price: ₹ 995 E-copy available Shebonti Ray Dadwal | | Book
Global Challenges and Russia’s Foreign Policy The article discusses the results of Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union against the background of major new global and regional international trends and the policy of other major world powers. The author argues that Russia should work for preventing a new structured confrontation in Europe, maintaining international stability, and keeping the world from sliding into a big war which seems to be more likely now than ever before in the last 50 years. Sergey Karaganov | | Strategic Analysis
Stability and Growth in South Asia Publisher: Pentagon Press This book examines the forces and processes which have led to relative political stability or unleashed trends in that direction in some countries of South Asia. It also delves into the factors that have stimulated economic growth in some countries, and impeded economic growth in others. Eminent authors from the region examine how far the positive political and economic trends in the region are irreversible or lend themselves to internal convulsions or external influences. There is also a focus on how far inter-state relations within the region have led to stronger intra-regional co-operation, particularly in the economic field. ISBN 978-81-8274-748-7, Price: ₹ 995/- E-copy available Sumita Kumar | | Book
Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century by Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajat Kumar Kujur Routledge, Oxon, 2010, pp. 244, £80 Nihar R. Nayak | | Strategic Analysis
After COVID-19: Time to Agree A Biosecurity Code of Conduct Under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Keerthi Sampath Kumar | April 2013 | Africa Trends
China Year Book 2015 – China’s Transition under Xi Jinping Publisher: Pentagon Press This volume is an outcome of the annual exercise of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi (IDSA) to understand and track China and its developmental course. As a flagship publication of the East Asia Centre in IDSA, the China Year Book (CYB) 2015 is an undertaking to comperehensively analyse China's state transformation internally and externally. To what extent China will smoothly transit to its power quest is still an open query. This volume is an exercise to bring this debate to the fore. ISBN 978-81-8274-907-8, Price: ?. 1995 E-copy available Jagannath P. Panda | | Book
