Ved Prakash asked: What strategic role is India playing in the Asia Pacific region to counter China’s aggressiveness?

replies: Mackinder’s heartland theory highlighted the probability of Imperial Russia, which occupies the vast, interior, pivotal position in Eurasia, and which enjoys direct territorial access to all ...

Praveen CV asked: What are the challenges faced by India in its bid to secure the permanent membership in the UNSC?

Four times since Pakistan’s creation, the Baloch, who never wanted to be part of Pakistan, have rebelled, demanding autonomy or an independent state. After three decades, Balochistan is in turmoil… ...

Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774–1904 by Gordon T. Stewart Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 280, $33, ISBN 978-0521735681 ...

The stunted and stumbling progress of the ‘liberal peace’ philosophy since 1990 tells a complex story. In this article, I give a history of the liberal peace project from its academic and activist ...

The demand for autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) followed by heated discourses on the subject has been appearing and fading intermittently. The demand as well as discourses, articulated by ...

replies: Within the BRICS, its constituent members collectively wish to gain a number of objectives at the broader global level, which they are unable to achieve at the individual level.… Continue ...

With the price of oil crossing $110 a barrel, the oil-importing countries’ concerns have been mounting. Not surprisingly, the issue of whether the time is now ripe for energy consuming… Continue ...

China’s Defense Paper 2002 was released in December 2002. It is the fourth such Paper since 1995. It clearly affirms that the top priority for China is to continue its modernisation. In particular, ...

Experts are still searching for a settled answer to the causes and aftermath of the violent unrest between the Han and Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province that erupted on July 5, 2009. The ...

replies: The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) could be considered as an alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS), though in a limited sense. IRNSS is a regional system,… ...