CDS and Beyond Integration of the Indian Armed Forces Publisher: KW Publishers Defence reforms are a challenge for most countries. The lessons from India’s experience suggest that major change has almost always been mandated from the very top. The ongoing structural changes are also being driven by the highest political office in a bid to seek integration, indigenisation and greater effectiveness of the armed forces. The ongoing military reforms began with the appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and creation of the Department of Military Affairs. Future changes are likely to include the creation of theatre commands, functional commands, restructuring of Army Headquarters and a number of other associated shifts in conjunction with these big bang reforms. It would not be an exaggeration to say that these changes are perhaps the most far-reaching military reforms in India’s post-independence history. The book undertakes a focussed assessment of the changes that commenced with the appointment of CDS. This includes the role and inter-se co-relation between major stake holders and defence departments. Keeping in view the need to enhance operational effectiveness, recommendations regarding the chain of command, rank structures and role of service chiefs have been made. The book will also analyse the structure and role of the future Air Defence and Logistics Command. ISBN: 978 819 52 858 4 6 , Price: ?. 918/- E-copy available Vivek Chadha | | Book
Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary (Volume III) Publisher: Pentagon Press This book is the third in a series of three volumes on "Kautilya and His Vocabulary" as a part of the "Indigenous Historical Knowledge" project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The edited volumes contain select papers presented in a series of workshops, national and international seminars organised by the Institute. The project is an attempt to trace, look into, analyse and relate with the indigenous strategic thinking in India. These volumes aim at initiating the study, internalisation, spread and consolidation of Kautilya's Arthashastra in the strategic domain. The four focus themes in the three volumes are foreign policy, intelligence, war and internal security as they relate to contemporary times. ISBN 978-81-8274-909-2, Price: ?. 795 E-copy available P. K. Gautam , Saurabh Mishra , Arvind Gupta | | Book
China-India-Japan in the Indo-Pacific: Ideas, Interests and Infrastructure Publisher: Pentagon Press This book analyses the competing power politics that exists between the three major Asian powers - China, India, and Japan - on infrastructural development across the Indo-Pacific. It examines the competing policies and perspectives of these Asian powers on infrastructure development initiatives and explores the commonalities and contradictions between them that shape their ideas and interests. In brief, the volume looks into the strategic contention that exists between China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI; earlier officially known as "One Belt, One Road" - OBOR) and Japan's "Expanded Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI) and initiatives like the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) and position India's geostrategic and geo-economic interests in between these two competing powers and their mammoth infrastructural initiatives. ISBN: 978-93-86618-42-9, Price: ?.1495/- $38.95/- E-copy available Jagannath P. Panda , Titli Basu | | Book
In the Hegemon’s Shadow: Leading States and the Rise of Regional Powers by Evan Braden Montgomery | | Strategic Analysis
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
