IDSA Comments

The India-Pakistan dialogue could be restructured in a way that allows them to engage each other in a formal but unstructured strategic political dialogue which focuses beyond immediate disputes and problems.

• Sushant Sareen
• July 15, 2010
• IDSA Comments

In the wake of Director General IDSA’s initiation of a debate on civil-military relations through his piece in the Indian Express of 9 July 2010, this Comment outlines the two major positions in the debate.

• Ali Ahmed
• July 14, 2010
• IDSA Comments

A survey of media reports in newspapers based in Jammu and Kashmir for 2010 reveals that although violence levels are down there are multiple levels at which militancy affects the state.

• Arpita Anant
• July 14, 2010
• IDSA Comments

It is essential to have an army which is capable of responding to conventional as well as sub-conventional warfare requirements with bare minimum turbulence while switching roles from one form of warfare to another.

• K C Dixit
• July 13, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Nationalistic imaging of the People’s Republic based on the Han identity could be the biggest obstacle to the pluralist solution that the contemporary situation in Xinjiang requires.

• Avinash Godbole
• July 09, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The survey in J&K and ‘Azad Kashmir’ indicates that people consider unemployment as a major problem, followed by corruption, poor economic development and human rights abuses.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• July 07, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The issue at stake is the US upholding and expanding its role as the key shaper of geopolitics in Northeast Asia, and China unwilling to be sidelined by the United States.

• Preeti Nalwa
• July 07, 2010
• IDSA Comments

An absence of legal statutes in the insurgency affected areas would adversely affect the utility and efficacy of the security capacity of the state.

• Harinder Singh
• July 06, 2010
• IDSA Comments

A strategic dialogue mechanism with Pakistan at the level of NSAs, assisted by representatives of the national security establishment including the military on both sides, needs to be initiated to address core questions like the strategic balance and reconciling strategic doctrines.

• Ali Ahmed
• July 05, 2010
• IDSA Comments

While there is no denying the fact that Rudd’s ideas on foreign policy were well-intentioned, one cannot possibly overlook the fact that it all fell apart in the course of practice.

• Rahul Mishra
• July 02, 2010
• IDSA Comments