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The Security Forces have performed commendably in Jammu and Kashmir and have been singularly successful in containing insurgency to such levels that it has been possible to conduct free and fair elections and to restore life to a state of near-normalcy. Despite sterling results, reduction in troop levels on ground is not that visible for lack of a detailed study to ascertain the exact quantum and nature of troops that can be dispensed with given the current ...
This volume brings together George K. Tanham's much-quoted RAND essay, 'Indian Strategic Thought', his sequel essay, 'Indian Strategy in Flux?' and specially commissioned commentaries by five Indian scholars. Most of our understanding about strategy is coloured by information from the West and the former Soviet Union. While this may have been acceptable during the Cold War, it is no longer so. In the coming three decades a ...
Can international relations be explained by geopolitics alone? More precisely, does geographical proximity necessarily lead to intense interconnections? The principal concerns of the present volume on the India-ASEAN security relationships are rooted in these questions. India’s association with South-East Asia goes back in history, and it has had great influence on the region, both linguistic and cultural. As is well known, economic and cultural relations ...
This volume is part of research programme on 'India's Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium: Forging New Partnerships in South-East Asia’. As the strategic and security issues have been addressed in the earlier volume, the present volume deals exclusively with economic issues. It comprises eight contributions, and is the result of a second workshop organized in New Delhi in April 2001. In this connection the authors examine the potential for increased ...