Summary: In recent years, India has adopted a proactive policy aimed at transforming the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a tri-services command, as an economic hub and one of the key centres of its ...

To tackle the China threat, Taiwan has imported significant amounts of defence equipment from the US, among other countries, while also strengthening its domestic defence industrial base.

India has implemented a unified framework emphasising data sovereignty while the US relies on sector-specific regulations and state laws that prioritise market flexibility.

Dr S Samuel C Rajiv is Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Prior to joining MP-IDSA in November 2006, Dr Rajiv worked at… Continue ...

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been earmarked as a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is described as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign ...

Trump’s first day in office began with all the pomp and pageantry associated with the inauguration with a combative inaugural speech, similar to the speeches he made on the stumps, and that likely ...

Download [PDF] Summary Turkiye is swiftly expanding its influence in a rapidly imploding Islamic world, as its ‘neo-Ottoman’ ...

Ajey Lele’s article ‘China-Pakistan aerospace bonhomie’ has been published in Financial Express on 25 January 2025.

(1966-68)Major General D. Som Dutt was the first Director of IDSA. During his distinguished service in the Indian Army, he served in several important positions. The last position he held in the Army ...

Dr. Pushpita Das is Research Fellow and the Coordinator of the Internal Security Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her areas of… Continue ...

The Occasional Paper attempts to analyse the performance of India’s defence research and development machinery and especially that of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It first ...

In an African context, the process of developing an agenda for maritime security has been relatively new despite the continent being completely surrounded by water. For long periods of time, African ...