A lesson from crisis management in South Sudan The work for the Department of Peace Operations is thus amply clear. It must privilege the substantive side in its thinking as it approaches mandate making. This would ease the work of peacekeepers and contain the thrust in recent years towards a militarisation of peacekeeping under the cover of robust peacekeeping. Ali Ahmed | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
India in Nuclear Asia: Evolution of Regional Forces, Perceptions and Policies In India in Nuclear Asia, authors Yogesh Joshi and Frank O’Donnell do a rigorous job of unpacking the layers that have constituted India’s nuclear journey, especially since going overtly nuclear in May 1998. They distil the key aspects pertaining to India’s nuclear force developments, the evolution and challenges facing its nuclear doctrine and the key rationales as they see underpinning New Delhi’s non-proliferation policies. S. Samuel C. Rajiv | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Tiger Check: Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air-to-Air Combat, 1950–1980 Warriors, with courage and integrity as their distinguishing traits, have been always respected. Skilful warriors, such as military aviators, have created a special place for themselves in the society. In this class, a very small section of fighter pilots has an iconic status. Adages like ‘All men are born equal, then a few become fighter pilots’ support this perception. Kishore Kumar Khera | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
An Era of True Fakes With increasing advances in artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning, a new era of deep fakes has emerged, which has the potential to weaken the fabric of democratic society. Kritika Roy | January 10, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Great Power Rivalry Reaches Africa With John Bolton conceding that the US has limited resources to compete with the tens of billions of dollars that China is pouring into Africa, it is not clear how effective America’s new Africa strategy would prove to be in containing China. Anand Kumar | January 09, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Biological Weapons: The Impact of New Technologies In June 2018, German police arrested a Tunisian man in Cologne for trying to build a biological weapon using the deadly toxin, ricin.1 In October 2018, researchers flagged a… Continue reading Biological Weapons: The Impact of New Technologies Shambhavi Naik | January-June 2019 | CBW Magazine
Turkey Treads a Fine Line in Syria In the light of Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, Ankara has adopted a cautious approach towards the Syrian Kurds and has decided to take Moscow’s concerns into account before making any move in northern Syria. Md. Muddassir Quamar | January 04, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos Article 108 of United Nations (UN) Charter states that the Charter can be amended if it is adopted by two-third members of the General Assembly and ratified by two-thirds of the members of UN, including the five Permanent Members, also known as the P-5. Changing international dynamics and the need for including hitherto unrepresented quarters further call for the restructuring of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The role of UNSC has changed over the years and Hardeep Singh Puri’s book discusses the role of UNSC in resolving the crisis spanning Asia and Europe. Lakshmi Priya | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Will the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration solve the crisis? The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration embodies the international community’s collective commitments to promoting cooperation on migration and solve the growing migrant crisis. Rajeesh Kumar | January 02, 2019 | IDSA Comments
US-Taliban Peace Talks and the Disquiet Trump seems to have reconciled himself to the fact that Afghanistan may become an ‘Islamic Emirate of Taliban’ with Sharia Law being imposed with or without the consent of the people. V. Mahalingam | January 01, 2019 | IDSA Comments
