The paper says that the region is plagued with piracy and has also witnessed maritime terrorism related activities, drug smuggling, gun running and illegal migration.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 09 Feb 2018 This paper offers an analysis of the causes behind the changing philosophy and practices of one of the well-known crime organizations from India to move closer towards terrorism to support its crimina...
by Ajey Lele | On 09 Feb 2018 This paper narrates that during the first week of January 2017, many in Pakistan were surprised, when the government allowed the earlier Parliamentary legislation on the military courts to elapse.
by D. Chandran | On 09 Jan 2018 The study discusses the problems Pakistan may face in near future in the hands of Pakistani volunteers fighting in Syria.
by Rubab Syed | On 16 Nov 2017 The emergence of Al-Qaeda as a global terrorist organization carrying out devastating strikes across the USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa shed a spotlight on terrorism, and by extension on radicali...
by Fadi Farasin | On 03 Aug 2017 Demonetization is the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender. Demonetization is necessary whenever there is a change of national currency. The old unit of currency must be reti...
by | On 18 Jan 2017 A health system should be responsive, resilient, self-regulating. It should be able to respond to health emergencies and changing development scenarios. Governments all over the world should see to it...
by Rajeev B.R. | On 14 Dec 2016 Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa form the bloc of emerging
economies, but is it still relevant? For several years now, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the rise...
by Al Jazeera . | On 25 Oct 2016 This paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict...
by Michael Jetter | On 27 Jun 2016 This report examines the international community’s assistance to Afghanistan, with particular focus on U.S. efforts. It
assesses the impact of the U.S.-devised counter-insurgency strategy on Afghans’...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 The paper focuses on the constructive role that China can play in enhancing security in South Asia. The potential contribution that China can make to enhancing non-traditional security in the region i...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 India’s stances in global Internet governance debates have often been noted, and criticised, for their strong preference for multilateral models of engagement, as different from the multistakeholder a...
by Saikat Datta | On 17 Mar 2016 In the post-9/11 world, India’s nuclear establishment is threatened by nuclear terrorism. Some analysts suggest that India may be home to up to 36 active terrorist organizations. It is thus crucial th...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 The recent riots and attacks in China’s western province of Xinjiang have brought to the forefront the long simmering tensions between the Han Chinese and Uyghur communities. What have often been capt...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 India and Pakistan must learn that Pathankot and Peshawar were mindless acts of terror, to prevent whose recurrence, there is the need to enhance cooperation, not diminish it. Pakistan must continue t...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 22 Feb 2016 In her new article, “Crime-War Battlefields,” published in the June-July issue of Survival, Vanda Felbab-Brown discusses the evolution of war since the end of the Cold War and the eventual rise of pol...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 The Paris attacks should warn us that the threat from ISIS is real and poses a challenge to the security environment in India.
by Reshmi Kazi | On 20 Dec 2015 In this policy paper, Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the relationship between conflict,
peace dynamics, and drugs and other illicit economies in Thailand and
Myanmar/Burma since the 1960s through...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 16 Dec 2015 Intelligence agencies provide the most sensitive protective security shield for a country. They mostly operate in shadows, develop sources and penetrate the enemy to prise out information that could b...
by Radha Vinod Raju | On 24 Nov 2015 This issue brief reflects on the prevalence of terror networks in South Asia as Al Qaeda is attempting to expand into new territories in South Asia, “suitable” for safe housing themselves and their il...
by Reshmi Kazi | On 23 Nov 2015 This paper sets forth the main lines of the ideology of the Islamic State and carefully follows its historical trajectory. Part I, Doctrines, takes up the group’s fundamental religious and political b...
by Cole Bunzel | On 22 Nov 2015 While a good deal has been written and said about the threat posed by terrorism in Southeast Asia, there has been little work analyzing the impact of terrorism and the war on terror on Asian regional...
by Amitav Acharya | On 22 Nov 2015 Irfan Habib spoke at the writer's convention, Pratirodh, held at Mavlankar Hall on the 1st of November, in solidarity with writers who have returned their awards protesting the loss of a liberal space...
by | On 18 Nov 2015 This digest throws light on how terrorism has affected the social and religious atmosphere of the country. This digest tries to bring a clear picture on the dangerous understanding that a particular c...
by Ram Puniyani | On 29 Oct 2015 The emerging interest in our past prompts unsettling questions and issues throwing up controversies. How we handle them will mark our maturity as a civilisation.
by Padma Prakash | On 30 Aug 2015 As the UN Human Rights Council holds its 29th session from 15th June 2015 to 3 July 2015, it ought to adopt a resolution on the deplorable human rights situation in Maldives as a consequence of the si...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 15 Jun 2015 The district of Malappuram was formed on the 16th demographics and led to intense debates and agitation in the state, with each side accusing the other of communalism and partisanship. This paper is a...
by Mohamed Shafeeq K | On 24 Jul 2014 It is estimated that by 2030, only 60 per cent of the
world's population will have access to fresh water supplies. This would mean that about 3 billion people would be living without reliable source...
by Wilson John | On 15 May 2014 Afghanistan is currently in its second round of presidential and provincial council elections since 2001. In these elections most attention by international observers and analysts is being paid to que...
by Martine Bijlert | On 21 Apr 2014 Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehe...
by Namrata Ganneri | On 25 Jan 2014 The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money
and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The pa...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 May 2012 This publication addresses the vulnerability of radioactive material during transport. Given the international concern over acts of nuclear terrorism, it is imperative to have a well defined plan for...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 23 Nov 2010 This
paper will focus on different instances of community assertions by the
Syrian Christians in twentieth century Travancore/Kerala. [Working Paper 427]
by J Devika | On 02 Jun 2010 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 2009 The indecent haste shown by Political Executive and Parliament on December16-17, 2008 while dealing with security related issues substantiates the argument that security and defence agenda of the Indi...
by C. P. Bhambhri | On 16 Apr 2009 In recent years there has been a strong focus on ‘Islamic radicalisation’ in
Europe, due both to the threat of terrorism and its security implications, and to the
issue of integrating second generat...
by Olivier Roy | On 22 Jan 2009 This paper quantifies the impact of terrorism and conflicts on income per capita growth in Asia for 1970–2004. Transnational terrorist attacks had a significant growth-limiting effect. An additional t...
by Khusrav Gaibulloev | On 05 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 The terror attacks everywhere have impacted on young people’s lives in many ways. A point of view from Vadodara, India.
by Swati Joshi | On 20 Oct 2008 Review of:
Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles
Edited by Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Samir Kumar Das,
Sage Publicatons, New Delhi;...
by Ratna Bharali Talukdar | On 22 Jun 2008 Opinion polls show less than 20 per cent of Pakistanis now approve of President Musharraf, who has been described as an indispensable ally in the war against terrorism by some members of the Bush admi...
by Husain Haqqani | On 24 Feb 2008 As the title of the article says, the question asked here is who can fight terrorisn in Pakistan?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jan 2008 This report is based on the visit of the team to various affected villages and other areas in Gujarat and interviews with the victims and other villagers of these areas. There are a number of other vi...
by Act Now for Harmony and Democracy ANHAD | On 26 Sep 2007 Aa framework for the analytical treatment of terrorist problems is suggested and then brings out the importance of financial and socio-economic factors. The framework classifies the various causes of...
by Siddhartha Mitra | On 31 May 2007 Humanism is defined to mean: any system which puts human interests and the mind of man paramount; non-religious philosophy based on liberal values; tendency to civilise; and compassion. Tarkunde satis...
by J. S. Verma | On 28 May 2007 Investigating the acts of terrorism and pinpointing the culprits is not an easy job. With the prejudiced mindset of the powers that be, it becomes more shrouded in mystery. At times it is purposely de...
by Ram Puniyani | On 03 Oct 2006 The close relationship, a symbiotic one, between the media and the government of the day has long existed. In the run up to the Iraq war and afterwards, the Bush Administration and legislators in t...
by Yasemin Inceoglu | On 16 Feb 2006 An Additional Protocol to the SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism, has been prepared recognizing the importance of updating the Convention, in order to meet the obligations devolving...
by Anonymous | On 13 Aug 2005 The entire project of SAARC is dependent on India’s capacity to bind the neighbouring states in multiple networks of ties to promote regional cooperation. India not only shares frontiers with all the...
by Rajen Harshe | On 13 Aug 2005 |