Summary At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited― conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from…
Topic: South Asian Security
Summary Unregulated or lesser regulated maritime spaces are ideal theatres of operation and mediums of transportation for terrorists, insurgents and pirates. For more than a…
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Summary Xinjiang is the ‘pivot of Asia’, where the frontiers of China, Tibet, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia approach each other. The growing Uyghur…
Summary This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and ideational contributions of five countries to the regional architecture of post-Cold War Asia. In…
Summary The Handbook of India’s International Relations gives an overview of India’s international relations, given the development of India as a major economic power in the…
Summary The Soldier and the State in India is one of the first attempts at offering a theoretical perspective for examining some of the most…
Summary India has the world’s fourth largest military and one of the biggest defence budgets. It asserts its political and military profile in South Asia…
Abstract India’s strategic evolution has entered uncharted waters. Despite India’s vulnerabilities and long history of strategic diffidence, there are signs that the Modi government is…
Summary This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In…
Abstract The Pakistani foreign and security policy establishment has propagated at least five egregious and pernicious myths to promote what they deem to be Pakistan’s…
Summary This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War,…
Summary The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors,…
Abstract China has always been an important neighbour to Nepal which has otherwise historically been heavily influenced by India. The ‘rise of China’ has created…
Summary South Asia is often viewed as a potential nuclear flashpoint and a probable source of nuclear terrorism. But, how valid are such perceptions? This…
Summary South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current…
