China’s One-Road-One Belt Initiative: A New Model of Global Governance India should seek to ‘redefine’ OROB to add a strong component for a ‘Digital Asia’, as that is where our comparative advantage lies, and for Asian connectivity to have two nodes, in China and in India, as has been the case throughout history. Mukul Sanwal | September 29, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Cancellation of the SAARC Summit: Has India Succeeded in Isolating Pakistan Regionally? The reactions of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and India indicate a new regional consensus that state sponsored terrorism cannot be dealt with only at the bilateral level. Smruti S. Pattanaik | September 29, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Significance of the Jordanian Parliamentary Election The most significant outcome of the Jordanian parliamentary election has been the participation of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood. In many ways, this election is a test of King Abdullah’s commitment to electoral reforms. Manjari Singh | September 28, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Coast Guards in the Western Hemisphere – The Dutch Connection The Dutch Shipbuilding Company Damen’s success in the Western Hemisphere has important lessons for ship manufacturers who wish to export small and medium sized patrol vessels to the region and elsewhere. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | September 27, 2016 | IDSA Comments
DPRK’s Nuclear Provocations and the Indian Response India needs to engage more pointedly with South Korea, Japan, the United States and even bilaterally with DPRK to convey its concerns regarding the latter’s strategic cooperation with Pakistan. Jagannath P. Panda | September 27, 2016 | IDSA Comments
The End of an Era in Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov’s foremost contribution to the region and the world is to shield Uzbekistan from the onslaught of radical Islam. Skand Tayal | September 26, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Syria: The Cease-Fire that was and wasn’t The Kerry-Lavrov agreement did not work because those who had to cease fire were not willing to abide by it. K. P. Fabian | September 23, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Calibrated Responses: The Way Forward for Defeating Proxy War Through a pragmatic strategy coupled with national will, India should undertake calibrated responses to defeat Pakistan’s proxy war game plan with a view to making its misadventures prohibitively costly and unsustainable. G.G. Dwivedi | September 23, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Warheads and India’s Nuclear Doctrine The advocacy by Pakistani analysts of the Indian disinclination to retaliate massively in response to their use of TNWs on their own soil indicates either a flawed analysis or a bluff that the Indian armed forces would be inclined to call. Gurmeet Kanwal | September 21, 2016 | Issue Brief
Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Arms: Inefficient Duplication of Effort For Trinidad and Tobago, having two Air Arms has led to duplication of effort that has rendered existing assets less effective than they otherwise might have been. A faulty procurement process has also led to an incompatibility of both aircraft and avionics. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | September 21, 2016 | IDSA Comments
