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Ananth Krishnan
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Angira Shukla
Anindita Sinh
Anirudh Shingal
Anit Mukherjee
Ankit Bhatia
Ankita Garg
Anoop Singh
Antara Ghosal Singh
Anthony W. Orlando
Anupam Nanda
Anuradha De
Anuradha Sajjanhar
Anurag Sehgal
Anushka Saxena
Aparajita Nair Dmonty
Aparna Preethan
Aparna Roy
Aprajita Prasad
Aradhika Menokee
Arnab Dutta
Arun K Mishra
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
Ashley Jose
Ashok K Lahiri
Ashok Sreenivas
Ashwini Chitnis
Ashwini Narayanan
Avani Kapur
Axel Nordenstam
Ayush Khare
Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan
Baran Pradhan
Barun Deb Pal
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Bhavna Sharma
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Bhumika Sharma
Bibek Debroy
Biplob Chatterjee
Will Moreland
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Chanakya Chaudhary
Charles K Ebinger
Charmi Mehta
Chathumi Ayanthi Kavirathna
Cheng Li
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Christina Kwauk
Christopher Meserole
Chunalee Attanayake
Colette D Honorable
Collin Koh Swee Lean
Constantino Xavier
Constanze Stelzenmuller
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Daljit Singh
Dan Arbell
Daniel L Byman
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Darrell M West
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Deepak Agrawal
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Devashish Sharma
Dhruv Gupta
Dhruva Jaishankar
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Divya Jain
Divya Srinivasan
Diana Liang
Dweepobotee Brahma
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Elizabeth Ferris
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Eswar Prasad
Eul Noh
Federica Saini Fasanotti
Filippos Letsas
Frank A Rose
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Gaurav Dalmia
Gautam Ray
Geethanjali Nataraj
Geetika Dang
Geetika Gupta
George Skaria
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Gurmeet Kaur
Hana Chambers
Harsha Vardhana Singh
Hasna Munas
Hillary Schaub
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Howard Schaffer
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Indrani Gupta
Indranil Mukhopadhyay
Isha Agarwal
Ishita Kapoor
Izzy Boggild Jones
Jabin Jacob
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Krishanu Karmakar
Krishnamurthy Subramanian
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Laveesh Bhandari
Laura McGhee
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Ramandeep Jakhu
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Randeep Guleria
Ranj Alaaldin
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Rashmi Kundu
Raunab Singh Khatri
Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi
Rebecca Winthrop
Reena Sudan
Renu Kohli
Rhea Sethi
Richa Roy
Richard C Bush
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Ridhi Purohit
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Riya Sinha
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Robert J Einhorn
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Rohan Sandhu
Rohit Reddy
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Rishita Sachdeva
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Sahil Ali
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Sarvoday Kumar
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Sejal Yadav
Shahidul Haque
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Shalini Chauhan
Shamika Ravi
Shaonlee Patranabis
Sharad Pandey
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Shauryavir Dalal
Shayak Sengupta
Shifali Goyal
Shishir Gupta
Shivshankar Menon
Shreekant Gupta
Shruti Jargad
Shruti Gakhar
Shruti Godbole
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Shruti Jargad
Shruti Slaria
Shyamasis Das
Siddharth Singh
Sikim Chakraborty
Sisir Debnath
Suzanne Maloney
Sofi Bergkvist
Sofia Shehana Basheer
Sourangsu Chowdhury
Srestha Banerjee
Srishti Katoch
Stephen P Cohen
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Strobe Talbott
Subhanshi Negi
Subhashini Abeysinghe
Subir Gokarn
Sukhmani Kaur Toor
Sumit Prasad
Supriya Ravishankar
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Swati Mitchelle Dsouza
Tamara Cofman Wittes
Tanima Pal
Tanvi Madan
Tarandeep Kaur
Tarun Chhabra
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Ted Piccone
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Teresita Schaffer
TG Srinivasan
Tim Boersma
Timmons Roberts
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Trishna Wahengbam
Uday Mehta
Ulrich Voltz
Umesh Kumar
Umika Chanana
Urvashi Sahni
Utkarsh Dalal
Utkarsh Patel
V Anantha Nageswaran
Vaidehi Tandel
Valbha Shakya
Vanda Felbab Brown
Vandana Vasudevan
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Vikram Singh Mehta
Vinod Thomas
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Vrinda Gupta
Vyoma Jha
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William A Galston
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Yashika Singh
Yashobanta Parida
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Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Govt Must Rethink the Role of Defence Attaché
With growing capabilities and interests, India needs to reconsider the current terms of the partnership between the military and our diplomats.
Anit Mukherjee
February 19, 2024
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
A Renewed Focus on Emerging Technologies
Fully realising the potential of emerging technologies in the military requires altering existing organisations and approaches.
Anit Mukherjee
November 21, 2023
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
In Defence, The Twin Transformations
The country’s political leadership took a leap in reimagining the military. But it must pay attention to structural issues.
Anit Mukherjee
November 22, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
1971 War Tilted Balance in India’s Favour
Bangladesh today is a development success story as that country overtook India and Pakistan in terms of per capita income and human development indicators.
Shivshankar Menon
October 29, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Strategy
Security & Defence
India and US have certain congruence in maritime security through IPS
"I think India and the US have a certain congruence in maritime security through the Indo pacific in keeping those sea lanes open, safe, free but I don’t think either side has linked that to whether India has a permanent seat in the UN security council ...
Shivshankar Menon
September 27, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
India’s civilian leadership must step up
Between the Indian Army’s ‘supremo syndrome’ and IAF’s ‘all is well’ syndrome, India’s military effectiveness is compromised
Anit Mukherjee
July 9, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Book Review: The Absent Dialogue
There is a constant search for harmony among the three principal stakeholders of national security.
Anit Mukherjee
July 5, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
China
India, China, and the stalemate beyond Ladakh
Behind the ongoing military stalemate at the LAC lies a stifling political stalemate between India and China.
Antara Ghosal Singh
June 1, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Foreign Policy & Strategy
The great churning: Modi’s transformation of the Indian military
India’s current military transformation requires greater civilian participation and expertise in defense matters.
Anit Mukherjee
May 7, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Sambandh: Regional Connectivity Initiative
Leveraging greater Quad cooperation through disaster management in the...
Saneet Chakradeo
January 22, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
A name upon a grave: India needs a proper account of the army’s war dead
If we are unable to reconcile the numbers of war dead, then naming and properly honouring every single one, and looking after their next of kin, is not possible.
Anit Mukherjee
December 22, 2020
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Strategy
Interview | Does India’s neighbourhood policy need reworking?
Constantino Xavier
December 4, 2020
Opinion & Commentary
Sambandh: Regional Connectivity Initiative
India needs to invest in regional disaster relief mechanisms
Building capacities through training and joint exercises and coordinating comparative advantages for collective action will help India leverage goodwill among its neighbours through its disaster relief programmes.
Saneet Chakradeo
September 18, 2020
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
What Indian politicians, bureaucrats and military really think about each...
Anit Mukherjee
November 15, 2019
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
20 years after Battle of Tololing, defence reforms & Kashmir policy...
Anit Mukherjee
June 17, 2019
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
20 years after the Shakti tests
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
May 12, 2018
Opinion & Commentary
China
China’s military spending
Dhruva Jaishankar
March 7, 2018
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Security
China’s Frankenstein: ‘Rocket Man’
The successful test of the Hwasong-15 missile by North Korea has triggered several consequences, intended and unintended: First, Kim Jong Un has demonstrated the capability to potentially strike the US mainland with nuclear weapons. Second, the achievement has made the moniker of ‘Rocket Man’ (disparagingly used ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
December 4, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Democracy & Multilateralism
Warring over disarmament in the UN
For most people the UN is the venue of an annual kabuki theatre where world leaders come to make sonorous speeches and snipe at each other to score points with populations back home. While these theatrics, played out every September from the UN General Assembly (UNGA), ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
November 5, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Security
The birth of the new Nuclear Prohibition Treaty
The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is based on three myths: first, that nuclear weapons are an entitlement bestowed upon only a handful of countries that had tested a nuclear weapon before the treaty entered into force in 1970. Second, that the security of most of ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
July 17, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Moving forward on defence and security
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets US President Donald Trump for the first time, the focus will be on establishing a good rapport between the two leaders. There remain concerns that their two governments’ objectives are not compatible: that Trump’s “America First” approach, which conceives of ...
Dhruva Jaishankar
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Tanvi Madan
June 20, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Security
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Joint Doctrine for Armed Forces: the single-service syndrome
Last month the three service chiefs released the latest iteration of the Joint Doctrine for the Indian Armed Forces. In the foreword the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Admiral Sunil Lanba, wrote that that the Joint Doctrine “provides foundations for greater integration and interdependence, ...
Anit Mukherjee
May 9, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Security
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Should India Inc. bid for Westinghouse?
George Westinghouse and the company he founded in 1886 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pioneered the commercial production and transmission of a scientific marvel called electricity, which has since powered and revolutionized the modern world. With the dawn of the nuclear age, Westinghouse Electric Company went on to ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
May 8, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Security
Can unarmed states prohibit nuclear weapons?
Guess what terrifies nations armed with the most powerful weapons ever invented? Believe it or not a mere UN conference to ban them, which began on 27 March in New York. This gathering of nations without nuclear weapons to negotiate a “legally binding instrument to prohibit ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
April 10, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Can unarmed states prohibit nuclear weapons?
Guess what terrifies nations armed with the most powerful weapons ever invented? Believe it or not a mere UN conference to ban them, which began on 27 March in New York. This gathering of nations without nuclear weapons to negotiate a “legally binding instrument to prohibit ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
April 10, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Decoding India’s nuclear status
Dhruva Jaishankar
April 3, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Security
China benefits from nuclear disorder
The rise in global nuclear disorder and its increasing disconnect from world order is epitomized in the nuclear weapon programmes of two weak and potentially failing states Pakistan and North Korea. While both these countries might understandably perceive some advantage to having acquired nuclear weapons, ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
March 27, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
A disrupter’s guide to India’s defence budget
While India’s defence budget is now the fourth largest in the world, it is not providing adequate bang for the buck The latest Union budget unveiled on 1 February by finance minister Arun Jaitley has been widely commended as a “defining” and “watershed” moment, as providing ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
February 13, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
European Union
Brexit, missile control and India
A diminished England, sans nuclear weapons, coupled with a fragmenting Europe, is unlikely to play its traditional role of shaping norms Two recent though unrelated events are likely to significantly impact the evolving global order and India’s role in it. The first was the unfortunate and ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
July 4, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Critical Seoul NSG meet will have reverberations for India’s...
NSG meeting is no less important, for the potential implications it could have for relations between India and China writes Dhruva Jaishankar A decision by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on June 23-24 – as to whether to include India as a member – may be ...
Dhruva Jaishankar
June 21, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Foreign Policy & Strategy
What the Nuclear Security Summits mean for South Africa
WPS Sidhu provides an in-depth analysis of South Africa’s nuclear position and the ramification of Nuclear Security Summits on South Africa The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) process – to prevent non-state actors, particularly terrorists, from acquiring nuclear material – was launched with fanfare in 2010 by US President Barack Obama ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
April 18, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
UN missions bedrock of India’s military engagement and assistance to...
India must have a serious dialogue with African countries on its role in future peacekeeping operations on the continent. India’s participation in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) is probably without parallel; it has been one of the largest contributors of peacekeepers and has suffered the most ...
Anit Mukherjee
October 29, 2015
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Space: securing India’s final frontier
The launch of the GSLV–D6 powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine is a game-changer Even as the country was agog with a salacious society murder and an indefensible regional protest over reservations, which hogged the electronic bandwidth and the print media, an event of strategic import ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
August 31, 2015
Opinion & Commentary
Democracy & Multilateralism
Keeping peace among peacekeepers
The word peacekeeping does not appear anywhere in the Charter of the UN. Yet, ever since the first peacekeeping operation was launched in May 1948 in the Middle East, that one word evokes the very raison d’etre of the world body. Since then the UN has ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
June 22, 2015
Opinion & Commentary
China
The merits of going nuclear with China
This column first appeared in Mint, on September 15, 2014. Like other products of the Brookings Institution India Center, this is intended to contribute to discussion and stimulate debate on important issues. The views are solely those of the author. The maiden visit of Chinese President Xi Jingping to ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
September 15, 2014
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
A brave new nuclear deterrence world?
Since the dawn of nuclear weapons in 1945 two axioms have dominated the discourse: one, only nuclear weapons could deter other nuclear weapons. Two, as conventional conflict would inevitably escalate to a nuclear level the primary objective of the military in nuclear-armed states was to avert ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
August 19, 2014
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Updating India’s nuclear doctrine
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will “study in detail India’s nuclear doctrine, and revise and update it, to make it relevant to challenges of current times.” (Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, BJP’s 2014 election manifesto). Unsurprisingly, these words have perturbed international strategic experts. Everyone remembers how the ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
May 1, 2014
Opinion & Commentary
Security & Defence
Perils of preserving the ancien régime
The old order changeth yielding place to new… (The Passing of Arthur) Despite the veracity of this maxim, existing members of the old nuclear order, which is closely intertwined with the world order even today, are challenging the inevitability of this line from Alfred Tennyson’s classic ...
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
February 19, 2014
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