Links

▼
15 Nov 2014

ROUHANI AND IRAN'S FOREIGN POLICY: CHARTING THE CHANGE

›
  Majid Izadpanahi After the presidential elections of 14 June 2013, Iran’s Hassan Rouhani has proved that he is introducing changes in t...

MUSLIMS IN SRI LANKA: FOUR REASONS FOR THEIR MARGINALISATION

›
  Roomana Hukil With the defeat of the Tamil Tigers after 26 years in 2009 in Sri Lanka, it was hoped that the Sri Lankan political space...

USING DEFENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT: NEW POLICY OPTIONS FOR INDIA

›
  Bhartendu Kumar Singh   Defence and development have remained watertight compartments in India’s national security discourse and are...

UNSC RESOLUTION 2178: COMPROMISING DEMOCRATIC VALUES?

›
  Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith   Over the course of this year, the threat of Islamist terror changed dramatically for the worse. 13,0...

JAMAAT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN BANGLADESH: DESIGNS AND NETWORKS IN INDIA

›
  N Manoharan   In the wake of Burdwan blast, the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently ordered an immediate neutralisation of t...

ISLAMIC STATE: EFFICACY OF COUNTER-STRATEGIES

›
  Ranjit Gupta   The efficacy of the US strategy to defeat the Islamic State (IS) can only be meaningfully evaluated in the context of...

THE FUTURE OF SAARC IS NOW

›
  Pramod Jaiswal   The 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit is taking place in Kathmandu at the histor...

" BRITAIN BELONGS TO ALLAH":ANJEM CHOUDARY AND HIS SUPPORTERS

›
  Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith “We don’t abide by British rule.” “Sharia is the law of God, and should be implemented in the whole world...

THE ISLAMIST STATE AND FOREIGN FIGHTERS: JIHADIST FROM CENTRAL ASIA

›
  Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy As violent jihadist activities in Syria and Iraq intensify, the number of foreign nationals enrolling to fight...

THE U.S, SYRIA AND IRAQ: THE SUCCESS OF AIRSTRIKES SO FAR

›
  KP Fabian   The battle for Kobane, the Kurdish town on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, is still raging, though indication...

CHINA'S END GAME IN HONG KONG

›
  Teshu Singh China has two Special Administrative Regions (SAR) - Hong Kong and Macau - that were reunified with the mainland in 1997 an...
19 Oct 2014

IRAN: AN IMPERFECT NUCLEAR DEAL BETTER THAN NONE AT ALL?

›
Ruhee Neog In the desperate scramble for a conclusive nuclear agreement, would an imperfect deal with Iran be better than no deal at al...

MARITIME TERRORISM: KARACHI AS A STAGING POINT

›
Vijay Sakhuja The recent attempt by the Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the new wing of the Al Qaeda, to take control of PNS...

WAR AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE: POLITICAL AND MILITARY RESPONSES FROM THE REGION

›
Ranjit Gupta Strange things are happening in West Asia. Those who created the modern jihad in an extremely misguided and immature tacti...

CHINA IN NEPAL: INCREASING CONNECTIVITY VIA RAILWAYS

›
Pramod Jaiswal China is steadily extending its reach into South Asia with its growing economic and strategic influence in the region. I...

STRONGER DEMOCRATIC VALUES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

›
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera In the last few months, geopolitical instability has resurfaced in Eurasia and the Middle East. The Turkish Pre...

ISLAMIC STATE AND INDONESIA: JAKARTA'S COUNTER-STRATEGIES

›
Max Regus Earlier this year, Indonesia was shocked by the Islamic State's (IS) propaganda spread via YouTube to recruit new members...

ISLAMIC STATE AND FOREIGN FIGHTERS: JIHADIST FROM EUROPE

›
Tuva Julie Smith The prolonged fighting in Middle Eastern countries have attracted numerous European Muslims to partake in them. Althou...

STRATEGIC ESTRANGEMENT: AN ODD BEDFELLOW TO ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT

›
Vijay Shankar The inextricable interdependence of survival of China’s despotic leadership, its economic growth and stability of State-co...