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Cover of Insurgency and Counter Insurgency: A Dangerous War of Nerves
by Group Captain AV Chandrasekaran
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

This book is primarily an effort to study the phenomenon called insurgency that has been posing a huge challenge to the internal security of the country. Though a wealth of literature on the subject already exists, a need was felt to analyse the multiple facets of insurgency as no country barring...
Cover of Transitions and Interdependence: India and its Neighbours
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

Developments in South Asia in the areas of democracy, political economy and security in the last couple of years are intriguing and raise questions about whether the region is on the road to transformation. The years 2013 and 2014, particularly, have been ‘years of transition’ in South Asia. Almost...
Cover of Two Decades of Re-Emerging Russia: Challenges and Prospects
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Russia has been re-emerging as a major political and economic power during the last decade. The leadership of Russia claims that the objectives of transition from the former one-party socialist system to a plural multiparty democratic system and centralised planning to market economy are largely achieved....
Cover of Central Asia and Regional Security
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

While security concerns have assumed salience across the globe, Afghanistan’s proximity to Central Asia has meant that security or perceptions of insecurity dominate the strategic discourse in the region. Issues that stand out include the challenges that the Central Asian states will face in terms...
Cover of The Kurdish Question: Identity, Representation and the Struggle for Self- Determination

The Kurdish Question: Identity, Representation and the Struggle for Self- Determination

Identity, Representation and the Struggle for Self- Determination

by Mr Lungthuiyang Riamei
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

The book examines several models which have been advocated for a workable and acceptable solution to the Kurdish problem which would be absolutely necessary for stability in the West Asian region. The book evaluates how the more than two-decade long experience of Kurdish self-rule in a democratic...
Cover of Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapon: Conflict Redux
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs), often referred to as “battlefield”, “sub-strategic”, or “non-strategic” nuclear weapons, usually have a plutonium core and are typically distinct from strategic nuclear weapons. Therefore, they warrant a separate consideration in the realm of nuclear security....
Cover of Evolving Dynamics of Nuclear South Asia
by Air Marshal Tariq Mahmud Ashraf
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

India and Pakistan have both never really accepted each other’s existence. Their ties have been characterised by a lingering hostility and a pronounced qualitative and quantitative military imbalance in favour of India. Additionally, India took the lead in developing nuclear weapons while Pakistan...
Cover of India's Nuclear diplomacy and the Non-Proliferation Regime
by Ms Chandreyee Chakraborty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

This paper describes the evolution of the Non-Proliferation Regime through its major phases and the dynamics of the transformation which marked these phases, through a contextualisation of the security or geo-strategic environment of each phase. This paper has also made a conceptual study of the regime...
Cover of Image of the Region in Eurasian Studies
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Within the revised format of Eurasian studies, prime attention has been given not merely to how Eurasia’s regions positioned themselves in the context of post-Soviet political transition but also how these regions reinvented themselves through a re-envisioning of spatial categories like Slavic Eurasia,...
Cover of Globalizing Geographies: Perspectives from Eurasia
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

This volume examines the Eurasian engagement with geographies of globalisation through an understanding of the intersection of space and place in Eurasia, Eurasian encounters with globalisation in terms of shifting spheres in politics, economics and culture, levels of integration and the intricate...
Cover of Insights and Commentaries: South and Central Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

This volume emerged out of a search for scholarship that has studied connectivity between South and Central Asia from a variety of perspectives. Geographically and culturally, the vision that India has had of the region she referred to as Central Asia is of a space extending across China westward...
Cover of Indian and American Perspectives on Technological Developments in the Maritime Domain and Their Strategic Implications in the Indian Ocean Region
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

The maritime domain, hosting the highways of global prosperity—through trade, industrial raw material and energy links—rates high in its potential for conflict. As the global pendulum of economic vibrancy swings eastwards, the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has been receiving increasing attention from...
Cover of Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Foce

Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Foce

Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Foce

by Wing Commander Vishal Nigam
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China’s Aviation Industry and Air Force is a comprehensive and multidimensional study of the air force and the emerging aviation industry in PRC. The author has made a bold effort to trace the changing character of Chinese Air Force from the time of nationalists...
Cover of Essays on Iran and Israel: An Indian Perspective
by Dr Sujata Ashwarya Cheema
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

This book, containing essays on themes relating to India’s relations with Iran and Israel, deals with issues that have been intensely debated in the country for some time now. India’s robust ties with both Iran and Israel – bitter adversaries for more than three decades – have intrigued West...
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