Book Review

• Iran’s Influence: A Religious-Political State and Society in Its Region by Elaheh Rostami-Povey

  M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi

• US Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal? by Steven W. Hook and James M. Scott

  Saroj Bishoyi

• The US–India Nuclear Pact: Policy, Process and Great Power Politics by Harsh V. Pant

  Yogesh Joshi

• Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Transformation: The Case of India–Pakistan by Saira Khan

  Zafar Khan

• Political Islam: A Critical Reader by Frederic Volpi

  Babjee Pothuraju

• Maoist and Other Armed Conflicts by Anuradha Mitra Chenoy and Kamal Mitra Chenoy

  Vineet Thakur

• A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

  Ali Ahmed

• Underdogs End Empires: A Memoir by I.P. Khosla

  Padmaja Murthy

Policy

• To Stop Iran Getting the Bomb, Must We Learn to Live with Its Nuclear Capability?

  Ramesh Thakur

Articles

• Emergent Micro-National Communities: The Logic of Kuki-Chin Armed Struggle in Manipur

  S. Thangboi Zou

• Political Integration of Northeast India: A Historical Analysis

  Thongkholal Haokip

• Somali Piracy: A Form of Economic Terrorism

  Sarabjeet Singh Parmar

• Chinese Engagement with the Maldives: Impact on Security Environment in the Indian Ocean Region

  Anand Kumar

• The Role of the National Solar Mission in Climate Change Mitigation and the Twin Objective of Energy Security

  Nigel Singh

• Can Unconventional Gas Be a Game-Changer for India?

  Shebonti Ray Dadwal

Focus

• Vision for a Secular Pakistan?

  Moonis Ahmar

• Pakistan’s Pashtun Challenge: Moving from Confrontation to Integration

  Robert Boggs

Commentaries

• India amidst Increased Activity in the Security Council: A Few Observations

  Saurabh Mishra

• Asymmetric Warfare: A View from India

  S. Kalyanaraman