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Obama-Park Summit : North Korea Deciphered?
Rajaram Panda on whether Washington and Seoul can craft a strategy for dealing with Pyongyang vis-a-vis the recent tensions

India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: Strengthening the Risk Reduction Measures
Salma Malik on Pakistan's perspective in the IPCS debate with Vijay Shankar, PR Chari, D Suba Chandran, and Rabia Akhtar on Michael Krepon's commentary

North Korea and East Asia: An Evolving Art of War
Rana Divyank Chaudhary discusses the change in the strategies adopted by actors in the recent North Korean crisis

India and the US ‘Pivot’: Brothers in Arms?
Nayantara Shaunik assesses changing geopolitical dynamics in the region vis-a-vis the key players

Iran, Islam and Nuclear Weapons: Engage Teheran instead of Isolating
D. Suba Chandran reflects on "Troubling Tehran: Reflections on Geopolitics" edited by Rajaram Nagappa and Arun Vishwanathan

Book Review: Contextualising Iran
Manpreet Sethi reviews “Troubling Tehran - Reflections on Geopolitics” edited by Rajaram Nagappa and Arun Vishwanathan

SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/DISCUSSIONS

IPCS Book Release
25 April 2012




IPCS-Brookings Dialogue
3 November 2010

News
Obama’s six-point plan to wind down the ‘war on terror’
Washington Post, 24 May 2013
Like all presidential speeches, President Obama’s Thursday address at the National Defense University was suffused with soaring rhetoric. But it was also a substantive and analytical speech, laying out the  president’s conceptual...

Pakistan remains opposed to drones after Obama speech
Dawn, 24 May 2013
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government Friday repeated its view that US drone strikes in its territory were illegal, after President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for their use.The US president mounted a firm defence of his covert drone war as legal...

Pak Army not interested in used US arms, says Kayani
The News, 23 May 2013
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said Wednesday that Pakistan is not interested in American weapons and ammunition being used in Afghanistan. Talking to journalists at the PM’s reception for visiting Chinese PM, he expressed...

India, U.S. close gap on anti-terror cooperation
Times of India, 23 May 2013
WASHINGTON: When India wanted to impress upon Washington the official Pakistani fingerprints on the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai that killed 259 people, it Showed the American investigators detonators and timers used in the attack. The Americans Took...

US state cancels subsidy for investment from Pakistani company
Dawn, 19 May 2013
INDIANAPOLIS: Indiana has cancelled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure US troops in...

Issue Briefs, Special Reports, Research Papers
Afghanistan & the International Community: Limitations of Engagement
Aryaman Bhatnagar
Issue Brief 194
The 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit: A Critique
Tanvi Kulkarni
Special Report 115
Conflict Resolution in Afghanistan: India as Catalyst
Ali Ahmed
Special Report 111
After Osama: Pakistan’s Relations with the US, China & India
Samarjit Ghosh , Aditi Malhotra , and Rohit Singh
Special Report 104
Alternative Strategies towards China: Charting India’s Course for the Next Decade
Jabin T Jacob
Issue Brief 162
Pakistan’s Stability: The Global Stakes
PR Chari
Issue Brief 159
US, Russia & The New START: Implications for Nuclear Arms Reduction
Lydia Walker and Siddarth Ramana
CBRN Brief 21
Countering Terrorism: Role of Intelligence and Investigative Agencies
Radha Vinod Raju
Issue Brief 157
The Long View from Delhi: Defining India's Grand Strategy
Siddharth Ramana , Yogesh Joshi , Pia Malhotra , Bhavna Singh
Conference Report 28
Obama’s Afghanistan Policy: A Review of Literature
Debalina Chatterjee
Special Report 93
books
Indo-US Nuclear Deal – Seeking Synergy in Bilateralism - Revised Edition
Edited by P R Chari
New Delhi: Routledge, India
Book reviews
PR Chari reviews
Asia's Rising Powers: Implications for the United States
EVENTS
Nuclear Asia: The Contemporary Debate on Deterrence, Disarmament, Safety and Security
5 March 2013
Asia Pacific 2013: Looking Beyond Southeast Asia
4 March 2013
 
 

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