Abstract While recent history arguably demonstrates a high level of nuclear stability in South Asia, this article argues that this stability has historically been a…
Topic: South Asian Security
Abstract This article analyzes India’s nuclear doctrine, finding it to be critically flawed and inimical to strategic stability in South Asia. In pursuing an ambitious…
Abstract The technology surrounding missiles that fly at five or more times the speed of sound is not mature, but several nations have tested hypersonic…
Abstract The question of nuclear stability in South Asia is a subject of both academic and policy significance. It is the only region in the…
Abstract This article analyzes India’s efforts to deploy a Ballistic Missile Program (BMD). The article has three objectives. First, it argues that scientific-bureaucratic factors and…
Abstract Nuclear relations in South Asia cannot be fully analyzed without taking into account the China factor. After the May 1998 nuclear tests, a substantive…
Summary This book examines US foreign policy and global standing in the 21st Century. The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics…
Summary The leaders and bureaucrats of China have actively attended, initiated, promoted or made skillful use of regional multilateral political, economic, and security institutions to…
Abstract Some recent scholarly analysis of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) has suggested that the main impetus behind the creation of the new security organization…
Abstract The ascendance of Narendra Modi to the post of India’s Prime Minister comes at a time when Asian geopolitics is in a state of…
Abstract This paper analyses two interrelated issues. The first is a description and discussion of Australian identity dilemmas and contested regionalisms as a backdrop to…
Abstract India and Australia held a set of largely divergent strategic perspectives during the Cold War period, which prevented any significant strategic relationship from developing…
Abstract The Indian military is the world’s fourth largest after the US, Russia and China. In the immediate aftermath of India’s independence from British rule,…
Abstract This paper looks at the key strategic issues faced by China in the Indian Ocean within the context of growing Sino-Indian rivalry. It makes…
Abstract North Korea and Syria have a long history of military cooperation. Most of this cooperation has been in the form of North Korean proliferation of…
