While the New Year attack in Istanbul underscores Turkey’s endemic vulnerabilities, India too needs to be on guard. Messaging by the ISIS is often followed by action.

• Prabha Rao |
• January 30, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

The presentation of the Union budget on February 1 is expected to ensure full utilisation of allocated funds and will ensure that ‘New Schemes’ can be processed, approved and contracted from April 1, 2017.

• Vinay Kaushal |
• January 27, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

Through this white paper, China has affirmed its regional ambitions and aims to shape the regional security agenda in the Asia Pacific on its stated terms.

• Abhay Kumar Singh |
• January 19, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

The 2017 Conference also comes at a time when the existing international discourses on securing cyberspace, whether it be the UNGGE process or the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), seem to be unable to cope with the accelerated developments in cyberspace.

• Cherian Samuel |
• January 16, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

While the December 2016 White Paper sheds enough light on China’s growing ambitions in the space sector, it at the same time only reveals what China wants the rest of the world to know.

• Ajey Lele |
• January 06, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

The Chinese stance towards the December 15, 2016 incident relating to the seizure of USN UUV by PLA Navy has been extraordinarily ambiguous.

• Abhay Kumar Singh |
• January 03, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

The new direction of Cross-Strait relations, for better or worse, is largely expected only after the 19th CPC Congress in October-November 2017.

• Prashant Kumar Singh |
• November 23, 2016 |
• Issue Brief

The Brief flags the political discontent in the three major regions that lie in the CPEC’s trajectory.

• Priyanka Singh |
• November 23, 2016 |
• Issue Brief

The First Committee vote is a culmination of a long-drawn campaign and marks a dramatic shift in the affairs of the non-proliferation regime.

• A. Vinod Kumar |
• November 04, 2016 |
• Issue Brief

The key to calling Pakistan’s nuclear bluff lies in ensuring that the Indian armed forces are prepared to meet the threat of use of tactical nuclear weapons.

• Sanjay Badri-Maharaj |
• October 17, 2016 |
• Issue Brief