IDSA Comments

The key focus areas during the visit of MBS to India were terrorism, investment, energy, skill development, security and Indian diaspora in Saudi Arabia.

• Lakshmi Priya
• March 05, 2019
• IDSA Comments

Visiting ‘brother’ Pakistan and ‘friend’ India at a time when tensions are running high both in West Asia and South Asia, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walked the India-Pakistan tightrope with extreme caution.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• February 25, 2019
• IDSA Comments

India, the second largest smartphone market in the world, needs to encourage and incentivise its ICT industry to not only boost ‘Skill India’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives but also provide cyber autonomy to its critical cyber assets.

• Ashish Chhibbar
• February 25, 2019
• IDSA Comments

With US sanctions in place on the Venezuelan oil industry, global oil prices are set to rise once again, which may have major geopolitical and geo-economic consequences.

• Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Chithra Purushothaman
• February 20, 2019
• IDSA Comments

While Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif’s visit has created a better environment, the challenge lies in sustaining the current momentum

• Nagapushpa Devendra
• February 14, 2019
• IDSA Comments

Defence capability building and capability sustenance have been adversely affected over the past decade because of inadequate allocations and the status quo approach of the Defence Services.

• Vinay Kaushal
• February 04, 2019
• IDSA Comments

Although the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement has been able to mainstream the Pashtun issue and has inspired popular empathy, its anti-establishment thrust has made it a soft target for the pro-establishment media and political actors.

• Zainab Akhter
• January 28, 2019
• IDSA Comments

Facing huge political and security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia now looks westward to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden coast for a new regional security arrangement.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• January 15, 2019
• IDSA Comments

With increasing advances in artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning, a new era of deep fakes has emerged, which has the potential to weaken the fabric of democratic society.

• Kritika Roy
• January 10, 2019
• IDSA Comments

With John Bolton conceding that the US has limited resources to compete with the tens of billions of dollars that China is pouring into Africa, it is not clear how effective America’s new Africa strategy would prove to be in containing China.

• Anand Kumar
• January 09, 2019
• IDSA Comments