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In The Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah, Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2020, 297 pp, ISBN: 9781503610705
Dr Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF

In the Name of the Nation: India and its North East, authored by Sanjib Baruah interrogates the interaction of North East India with the territorial conceptions of the post colonial nation-state and state sovereignty. The North Eastern Region...

May 23, 2020
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Assam, India and Its Northeast, Nation, North Eastern Region, Sanjib Baruah
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative Concept, Context and Assessment by Siegfried O. Wolf, Springer, Switzerland, 2020, £88, ISBN 978-3-030-16198
Aakriti Vinayak

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative that was officially launched in April 2015, promised to be a game changer. The economic corridor that would link Kashgar in Xinjiang to Gwadar in...

May 23, 2020
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative, China, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, China, Neighbourhood Studies
In their Own Words-Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba by C. Christine Fair, Second Edition; By Christine Fair; India: Oxford University Press, 2019. 303pp. ISBN 10: 0-19-949521-1
Soumya Awasthi

The goal of every state is to survive. Many countries adopt various kinds of strategies to achieve their ends. The strategies are a mix of military, economic and diplomatic ways and means to realise their policy goals. However, in the case of...

May 20, 2020
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, C. Christine Fair, Lashkar, LeT, Understanding Lashkar, Terrorism
India’s Ocean- The story of India’s bid for regional leadership by David Brewster, New York: Routledge, 2014. pp228. ISBN- 978-0-415-52059-1
Amruta Karambelkar

Indian Ocean is of critical importance to India. The Indian peninsula juts out into the Indian Ocean. In fact, this is the only ocean in the world that is named after a country. The 21st century is a maritime century; therefore, the significance of...

May 19, 2020
Tags: David Brewster, Indian Ocean, Indian perspective, Maritime century, Pakistan, Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy
A Lifetime of Moulding Technology and Science Policy in India: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ashok Parthasarathi, Editor: Sachin Chaturvedi, Academic Foundation, 2017, 128 pp, ISBN: 9789332703551, Price: Rs 795
Radhika Daga

Science and Technology (S&T) has assumed great salience in India’s development and security matrix. In last few years’ policy initiatives like Make-in-India, Start-up-India and Digital India Programme have further given an impetus to this...

May 15, 2020
Tags: Electronics, National S&T Archive, Science and Technology Policy, Self-reliance, Technological and Scientific Studies
This is the way World Ends : How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2018, United States, 336 pp, ISBN: 9781250160461, price-$29.99 (2,257.17 Rs)
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF

We all have heard of climate change and its impact now and of future time and again. So much so, that it has now become the new normal. But it doesn’t really get the mind space that it needs, for various reasons. Then comes a book like Jeff Nesbit'...

May 13, 2020
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Climate Change, Earth’s ecosystem, Geopolitics, Impacts of climate change
From Third World to First -The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. First Edition. By Lee Kuan Yew. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 729 pp. ISBN 0-06-019776-5.
PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF

Singapore has been called the 20th century’s “most successful development story” and is considered a model for economic development. Its stunning economic transformation has been described as a “miracle” and have been the subject of numerous...

May 12, 2020
Tags: 1965-2000, From Third World to First, Mr. Lee Kwan Yew, Singapore, Singapore’s independence, International Relations and Diplomacy
K File:The Conspiracy of Silence By Bashir Assad (New Delhi, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019. 237pp)
Prof K Warikoo

Bashir Assad’s book comes at an appropriate time, as it provides an insider and subaltern view of Kashmir. He has firsthand experience of the developments in Kashmir for the past 30 years. In his own words, he has lived the ideology of Maududi...

April 20, 2020
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Ahl-e-Hadis, Bashir Assad, Islamisation, Jamat-e-Islami, Kashmir, Kashmiri Muslims, Kashmiris, Maududi Islam, Nizam-e-Mustafa, Jammu & Kashmir
Kashmir: Beyond Article 370. By Bashir Assad. New Delhi, Pentagon Press, 2020. 177 pp. Rs. 595/-
Prof K Warikoo

Bashir Assad, the Kashmiri writer has come out with yet another interesting and insightful study of Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. To quote Bashir, he has brought out the “bitter truth following his inner voice” underscoring the...

March 18, 2020
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Article 370, Bashir Assad, Kashmir, Kashmir: Beyond Article 370, Kashmiri Muslims, Jammu & Kashmir
Dilip K. Chakrabarti, The Borderlands and Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2018. 232pp.
Prof K Warikoo

Prof. Dilip Chakrabarti has undertaken a stupendous task of studying and recording the borderlands and boundaries of the sub-continent right from the Hindu Kush and Karakoram through Chitral, Gilgit, Hunza, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh upto the Arakan Hills in Myanmar. This study delves into the geographical, historical, religious and economic interaction and complexities of the borderlands, which have been a zone of interaction through history.

Prof. Dilip Chakrabarti has undertaken a stupendous task of studying and recording the borderlands and boundaries of the sub-continent right from the Hindu Kush and Karakoram through Chitral, Gilgit, Hunza, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh upto the...

December 30, 2019
Tags: Borderlands, Gilgit-Baltistan, Hindu Kush, Indian Subcontinent, Karakoram, Ladakh, Tajikistan, Historical and Civilisational Studies
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