New Nepal: The Fault Lines by Nishchal Nath Pandey Sage, New Delhi, 2010, ISBN 9788132103165 Nihar R. Nayak | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies by David Albright Free Press, 2010, 254 pp., ISBN-10 14165-4931-5 Reshmi Kazi | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India and China: The Battle between Hard Power and Soft Power by Prem Shankar Jha Penguin Viking, New York, 2010, 398 pp., Rs. 599, ISBN R N Das | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Soft Power: China’s Emerging Strategy in International Politics by Mingjiang Li (ed.) Lexington Books, Plymouth, 2009, 275 pp., US$80, ISBN 978-0-7391-3377-4 Rukmani Gupta | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned by Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler (eds.) Routledge, Oxon, 2009, 256 pp., $120.00, ISBN 978-0-415-49103-7 Kapil Patil | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Breaking Through – The Birth of China’s Opening-Up Policy by Li Lanqing 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
In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir’s Long War: One Family’s Extraordinary Story by Justine Hardy Gurinder Singh | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
The United States in South Asia: An Unending Quest for Stability 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
Response to Respondents There is no cause for dismay over a growing sense of marginalisation of India in regional and international forums on the Afghan issue. Similarly, the resurgence of the Taliban and increasing Pakistani influence in Afghanistan should be seen as a temporary phenomenon. Sushant Sareen is right in arguing that the ‘turn of events’ in the ‘not so distant future’ could open up possibilities of India playing a larger role in Afghanistan. Vishal Chandra | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India and the Afghan Maze: A Nimble and Supple Policy Only Way Out There is really never any endgame in Afghanistan and what might appear to be one today will, in all likelihood, be nothing more than the closing of one chapter and the opening of another. Therefore Chandra's contention that the war in Afghanistan has a long way to go is incontestable, and it is in this context that India's options will always remain alive. Sushant Sareen | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
