Following the dispute over the seizure of a Chinese trawler and its crew by Japan in the disputed waters in the East China Sea believed to be rich in oil and gas resources, Beijing has been flexing its muscles against Tokyo in another area. However, this one may have far deeper consequences not only for Japan but for the rest of the world.

• Shebonti Ray Dadwal |
• March 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

The new World Economic Order, advocated at the end of the Sixth Special Session of the UN General Assembly through a Declaration in Action Programme, and later by the regular session of the Assembly in the form of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties, poses quite a few problems. Its legal validity, its political wisdom, its economic content and a host of other issues have been questioned. The two instruments contain provocative provisions, like the right to nationalise foreign property.

• Rahmatullah Khan |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Sage, New Delhi, 2010, ISBN 9788132103165

• Nihar R. Nayak |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Free Press, 2010, 254 pp., ISBN-10 14165-4931-5

• Reshmi Kazi |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Penguin Viking, New York, 2010, 398 pp., Rs. 599, ISBN

• R N Das |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Lexington Books, Plymouth, 2009, 275 pp., US$80, ISBN 978-0-7391-3377-4

• Rukmani Gupta |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Routledge, Oxon, 2009, 256 pp., $120.00, ISBN 978-0-415-49103-7

• Kapil Patil |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Oxford University Press and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Oxford and New York, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-801692-2

• Kalyani Unkule |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

• Gurinder Singh |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2010, pp. 430, ISBN 978-0-393-33851-5 (paperback

Forrest E. Morgan, C. Christine Fair, Keith Crane, Christopher S. Chivvis, Samir Puri, and Michael Spirtas, Can United States Secure an Insecure State , RAND Corporation, US, 2010, pp. 232, ISBN 978-0-8330-4807-3 (paperback)

• Priyanka Singh |
• January 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis