Articles in Courtesy: IPCS
Chhattisgarh Massacre: Responding to Battlefield Setbacks
By: Dr Bibhu Prasad Routray | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 21 Apr , 2021
Within a span of less than two weeks, 28 security force (SF) personnel were killed in Chhattisgarh by left-wing extremists from the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). The first attack,...
President Biden and the Making of a New US Policy on North Korea
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 24 Mar , 2021
The change of leadership in the US means that a new strategy on North Korea will be articulated. This article looks at the developments in this regard: the ways in which the Biden presidency could...
COVID-19 Mauled 2020—A Nuclear Disaster Would End Time
By: Dr Manpreet Sethi | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 31 Dec , 2020
2020 started on a grim note, with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists deciding in January to move the minute hand on its clock to 100 seconds to midnight. This was a reminder of the high level...
In Context: India’s Renewed IOR Outreach
By: Dr Sripathi Narayanan | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 19 Dec , 2020
The simultaneous November 2020 visits by India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM), Dr S Jaishakar and National Security Advisor (NSA), Ajit Doval, to island-states in the Indian Ocean Region...
China and the Geopolitical Impact of COVID-19
By: Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 16 Dec , 2020
China’s dazzling growth story has been rudely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent chaos it has brought down on global economic systems. Ironically, in the past, its growth...
India-Nepal Relations: A View from New Delhi
By: Prof Sangeeta Thapliyal | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 22 Nov , 2020
India-Nepal relations have been on a downward slope. Many have blamed the border blockade as the turning point; others have pointed to China’s increasing influence. Many more have highlighted...
A Post - INF Nuclear World
By: Summaiya Khan | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 02 Mar , 2019
President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty raising complex security concerns with ramifications that could upset an already fractious...
Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi: Optimism Despite Impediments
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 26 Feb , 2019
The second US-North Korea summit meet, eight months after the Singapore Summit, is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on 27-28 February 2019. There is skepticism regarding the potential outcomes of...
Balochistan: Contextualising the Recent Spike in Attacks
By: Anwar Ali Tsarpa | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 13 Feb , 2019
On 23 November 2018, a Baloch insurgent group, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) attacked the Chinese consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. In a statement, the BLA said the “objective of the...
HAL and India's Race to the Bottom
By: Gp Capt Murli Menon, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 09 Feb , 2019
The Mirage 2000 crash in Bengaluru and the tragic fatalities of the two test pilots must make Indian policy-makers recognise and take steps to urgently address the conditions in which the...
Xi’s Disquieting Dream of National Rejuvenation
By: Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Feb , 2019
In the run up to the First World War, Germany pursued a combination of overbearing diplomacy and brinkmanship to achieve policy goals, despite the risk of war. Demanding a review of the...
Can the EU Secure its Strategic Interests through the JCPOA?
By: Manuel Herrera | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 27 Jan , 2019
The EU’s strategic interests with regard to Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) rest on four main pillars: maintaining stability in the Persian Gulf which is vital for global...
India-Indonesia: A Natural Partnership for the Indo-Pacific
By: Ashutosh Nagda | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 23 Jan , 2019
During his May 2018 visit to India, Indonesia’s Co-ordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Panjaitan, laid emphasis on a closer cooperation between India and Indonesia, suggesting it to...
Countering Left Wing Extremism: Need to Look Beyond Numbers
By: Dr Sanchita Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 20 Jan , 2019
It has been over 50 years, and the Maoist movement in India is still not showing signs of withdrawing or weakening. Undeniably, at present, the movement is hard pressed by new challenges and it no...
Where is Kabul Headed?
By: Maryam Baryalay and Abdul Mateen Imran | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 17 Jan , 2019
Afghanistan is gearing up for a possible political overturn. The ongoing peace talks between the US and the Taliban; talks of withdrawal of 7000 US troops; the three-month push-back of the Afghan...
Preventing the Next 26/11: Intelligence and India's Security Apparatus
By: Alok Joshi | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 12 Jan , 2019
There is a long-standing debate on the role, means, and end goals of intelligence. Is dissemination the purpose? Do ownership issues come into play between intelligence and law enforcement only in...
Limited Use of Nuclear Weapons: Political and Military Implications
By: Dr Manpreet Sethi | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 06 Jan , 2019
Among the many things nuclear that 2018 will be remembered for, the rather cavalier statements made by leaders in the US, Russia and North Korea on the utility of nuclear weapons certainly stand...
J&K: Addressing Security Challenges Amid Political Uncertainty
By: Sarral Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 31 Dec , 2018
The ‘new’ phase of militancy in J&K that began after Burhan Wani’s killing in 2016 continues to present multiple security challenges. With an eye on upcoming elections, the security situation may...
Collision on Course? An Assessment of EU-US Fall-Out Over the JCPOA
By: Manuel Herrera | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 25 Dec , 2018
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and resume US primary and secondary sanctions on Iran has positioned the EU and the US on a...
The Contours of Xi’s Chinese Nationalism
By: Palden Sonam | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 19 Dec , 2018
After China’s President Xi Jinping announced the ‘China Dream of Great National Rejuvenation’, the Communist Party of China (CPC) identified three important stages of development under three...