Various Facets of the ‘Traffic Light Coalition’ in Germany With few convergences among partners, the path of the “traffic light coalition” headed by Olaf Scholz is laden with challenges, but also offers spaces for positive action. With several new faces in key positions, its success would lie in maintaining continuity, and tweaking it to accommodate necessary changes when required. Swasti Rao | December 23, 2021 | IDSA Comments
Re-thinking Gulf Security The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) remains an inadequate and ineffective instrument to pursue regional security. Rajeev Agarwal | February 01, 2021 | IDSA Comments
Putin’s Visit to India: Launch of a Revitalised Partnership President Putin’s short but highly consequential visit to India and the launch of the 2+2 format have imbued new dynamism into the bilateral partnership. There might be a few areas of divergence between the two sides but spheres of convergence are much greater. Ashok Sajjanhar | December 16, 2021 | IDSA Comments
Pentagon Report and the Chinese Nuclear Forces Assessment The rapid increase in the nuclear forces of China, as revealed in the 2021 Pentagon Report, is a matter of serious concern. Several countries are undertaking exercises to ascertain the strategic and security implications of the feared expansion of the Chinese nuclear stockpile. Rajiv Nayan | December 14, 2021 | Issue Brief
Strengthening India–Vietnam Friendship Considering that the year 2021 marks the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between India and Vietnam, the upcoming visit of Mr Vuong Dinh Hue, the current Chairman of the Vietnam National Assembly, to India is likely to strengthen India–Vietnam relationship further. P.K. Chakravorty | December 14, 2021 | IDSA Comments
Leveraging Cyber Power: A Study of the Approaches and Responses of the Major Powers The monograph looks at how major powers have tried to pursue three objectives in cyberspace, viz. (1) strengthening or enhancing national cyber defences, and (2) striving to shape the international cyber environment by leveraging economic and technological capabilities, and (3) through defining and evangelising international cyber norms. A section on the cybersecurity preparedness of the countries of the South Asian region is incorporated to highlight those vulnerabilities and deficient capacities and capabilities that give the major powers a foothold to pursue their objectives. Cherian Samuel | 2021 | Monograph
Intersecting Geo-economics and Geopolitics: Nord Stream 2 and Europe Nord Stream 2, a Russian undersea gas pipeline project that intends to deliver natural gas from Siberia to Germany, currently sits at an intersection of several geopolitical and geo-economic cross-currents that determine the economic security as well as the geostrategic balance of Europe. Swasti Rao | December 10, 2021 | IDSA Comments
China’s Inconsequential Bid to Sign Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty Showing readiness to sign the SEANWFZ treaty seems to be a low-cost, high-return proposition for Beijing. It could be a calculated symbolic gesture having no bearing on the region’s precarious security situation. Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak | December 09, 2021 | IDSA Comments
India–Russia Cooperation in Indian Ocean Region, Arctic and Russian Far East India–Russia cooperation in the Indian Ocean and the Arctic, including the Russian Far East, could give strong thrust to their deepening engagement. However, there is a need for heavy lifting from both sides to achieve the desired potential. Anurag Bisen | December 06, 2021 | Policy Brief
Developments in Pakistan: The More Things Change… As the civilian political space shrinks and the capacity of the state gets hobbled by political dissension and internal resistance from forces armed with an alternate blueprint for action, Pakistan is likely to rely more on its anti-India stance to build national unity, seeking especially to suck in the militant religious groups into its orbit. Ashok K. Behuria | December 03, 2021 | IDSA Comments
