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Japan’s Imperatives for Nuclear Weapons Arsenal (SAAG Paper No. 487 Dated...

Paper No. 6305                                   Dated 18-Sept-2017Dr Subhash KapilaJapan’s geopolitical and strategic imperatives for nuclear weapons were strongly existent in 2002 and highlighted by...

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Who in China Instigated Doklam Stand – off? And Why?

Paper No. 6306                                 Dated 21-Sept-2017By Bhaskar RoyAfter over two month long military stand-off, the soldiers of India and China on the Doklam Plateau (claimed by Bhutan and...

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US-Japan-India Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue September 2017 Analysed

Paper No. 6308                                  Dated 26-Sept-2017By Dr Subhash Kapila Geopolitically, in the context of a threatening Asian security environment, the Second US-Japan-India Trilateral...

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China & India: Inconceivable for Elephant and Dragon to Dance together

Paper No. 6309                                 Dated 04-Oct-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaPost-Dokalam Standoff in which China defused the confrontation as a political expedient to save the BRICS Summit in...

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Pakistan September 2017: State of the Nation & its Regional Implications

Paper No. 6310                                    Dated 07-Oct-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaPakistan in September 2017 perceptionaly appears in an existential crisis wherein all major pillars of state stand...

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United States Strategic Over-Evaluation of Pakistan (Saag Paper No.313 of...

Paper No. 6311                                  Dated 16-Oct-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaThe United States has taken sixteen years down the line and numerous speed-breakers in US-Pakistan relations to...

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US-India Dynamic Strategic Partnership 2017: Geopolitical Imperatives Analysed

Paper No. 6315                                 Dated 23-Oct-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaGeopolitical imperatives generated by China’s aggressive bid for global dominance in 2017 has prodded the United...

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China’s 19th National Peoples Congress October 2017 Heralds Return of...

Paper No. 6317                                     Dated 30-Oct-2017By Dr Subhash Kapila;The major outcome of China’s 19th National People’s Congress (NPC) just concluded heralds a return of the...

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Afghanistan 2017 Witnesses the Power Tussle of Two New Strategic Trilaterals

Paper No. 6318                                  Dated 06-Nov-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaStrange and ironical are geopolitical histories of a region where within two decades geopolitical alignments have...

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US President Trump’s Asia Pacific Tour November 2017- An Estimative Analysis

Paper No. 6319                                  Dated 13-Nov-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaUS  President Trump’s first tour of the Asia Pacific in November 2017, nearly a year after assuming office, raises...

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South Korea’s Strategic Imperatives to Shed Historical Mind sets on Japan

Paper No. 6322                                 Dated 20-Nov-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaContextual North East Asia security imperatives dictate in 2017 for South Korea to opt for a ‘Nixonian Moment’ of a...

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Japan’s Imperatives to Break-Free from its Pacifist Constitution

Paper No. 6324                                   Dated 28-Nov-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaJapan on the verge of 2018 is geopolitically a ‘Leading Power’ in Asia along with India, and both as important...

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Indo Pacific Treaty Organisation Emerges Asia Security Imperative in end-2017

Paper No. 6325                                 Dated 05-Dec-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaIndo Pacific Asia as a geopolitical conception replacing the earlier concept of Asia Pacific has evolved markedly...

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Pakistan Army as a Politically Disruptive Force in Nation-Building

Paper No. 6326                                   Dated 11-Dec-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaPakistan Army having ruled over Pakistan for nearly half its existence since 1947 has no credits to distinguish...

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Russia-China-India Trilateral Geopolitically Redundant in 2017

Paper No. 6328                                  Dated 15-Dec-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaThe recent Russia-China-India Trilateral Foreign Ministers Meet in New Delhi brings into sharp focus the charade of...

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Afghanistan’s Future: The imperatives of United States Resolve

Paper No. 6329                                 Dated 18-Dec-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaAfghanistan in no military sense has emerged as United States ‘Second Vietnam’ ; however if the United States wavers...

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United States National Security Strategy Document 2017 Saliences Analysed in...

Paper No. 6330                                Dated 21-Dec-2017By Dr. Subhash KapilaThe US National Security Strategy Document 2017, the first to be issued by President Trump in his first year of...

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South China Sea: The Wages of United States Strategic Complacency

Paper No. 6332                                    Dated 26-Dec-2017By Dr Subhash KapilaThe United States in end 2017 is faced with a grave legacy challenge of the South China Sea maritime expanse under...

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Book Review- Sri Lanka: Public Writings on Sri Lanka- Vol. 3 by Charles Sarvan

Paper No. 6333                                  Dated  27-Dec-2017  (Published by Cinnamon Teal Publishing- 2017)  By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan  This book, a collection of essays on Sri Lanka is a...

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Pakistan Loses Utility in United States Strategic Calculus 2018

Paper No. 6336                                  Dated 03-Jan-2018By Dr Subhash KapilaStrategic utility of a smaller nation to that of a major power lies in its credibility, usefulness and loyal...

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