Articles By Anant Mishra
Peacekeeping Operations: Evolving the mechanism in 21st Century
By: Anant Mishra | Date: 09 Feb , 2015
Peacekeeping is a major tool in resolving conflicts and making the situation favourable for peace. Peacekeeping forces have been playing a very important role in a region and their role is...
Terrorism in the 21st Century: Battling Non State Actors
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2015
If we look in the past or even in the current situation no state has ever been a threat towards national and international security. On the other hand, despite their disregard for international...
Thinking the Unthinkable: Rise of ISIS
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2015
The United Nations Security Council has given a top priority to eliminate the threat of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL popularly known as IS or ISIS) that posses a grave danger to the...
Boko Haram: Beginning of a New Crusade
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2015
Boko Haram is an Islamists militant group located in the Northern region of Nigeria. The name “Boko Haram” in regional Nigerian dialect means “Western Education is forbidden” which...
The Rise and fall of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat famously said “Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart”. This quote illustrates the...
Crimea – The War That Didn’t Boil
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
The Crimean crisis was an international crisis in 2014 principally involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, until its annexation by Russia. Crimea is populated by...
Kurdish problem can redraw the map of Middle East
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2014
The 30 million or so Kurds are large ethnic minorities in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, but have no sovereign state of their own. This status quo is a continuing source of instability in the...
ASEAN’s Answer to the Coup d’état in Thailand
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2014
The Thai national security situation has been shaky at best in the aftermath of a series of political problems in the last couple of years. A sustained period of political turmoil has...
The Issue of Religious Extremism
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and worldviews that relate mankind to the supernatural and spirituality. Most religions have numerous signs and symbols as well as...
Reforming the United Nations Security Council
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
In an era where there is increasing inter dependence amongst nations, where a narcissistic approach is a thing of the past, where good diplomacy and smart foreign policies are a way to subdue your...
Role of Intelligence Agencies in Modern Warfare
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2014
Gathering intelligence and information by means of espionage has been a key element to the survival of nations ever since their existence. However, there has been a major change in the way...
Threat or Use of Force with Special Focus on Interventions and Invasions
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2014
The international law realm has for some time struggled with two distinct and contrary legal principles: state sovereignty, and humanitarian justice. It had been almost a truism of international...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Iran
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
With the advent of the Cold War, states’ possession of nuclear weapons and the capacity of these weapons to inflict catastrophic damage on enemies became a primary concern for the maintenance...
Israel Palestine and the divine intervention
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2014
In the 7th Century, the Arab conquest of Palestine assimilated its inhabitants (who are today known as the Palestinians). In the year 1516, the land was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. In 1831,...
AFSPA : A Delusion or Dilemma
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2014
Post-independence, India has witnessed many secessionist movements and has long suffered from extremist attacks. The very notion of secessionism disturbs the territorial integrity and unity of a...
Elusive Peace in West Africa and Sahel
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2014
The Sahel is a word derived from the Arabic word ‘Sahil’ meaning shore. The region, characterized as a semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land, stretches approximately 3860 km...
Standards of Intervention
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2014
Formed in the wake of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations took as its primary mission the maintenance of international peace and security. Since the end of the Cold...
The situation in Syria: Then and Now
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2014
The wave of Arab unrest that began with the Tunisian revolution reached Syria on March 15, 2011, when residents of a small southern city took to the streets to protest the torture of students who...