MacArthur should return
Nitin Pai The focus on the war in Afghanistan has rendered the United States blind to the strategic reality that ‘surges’ and reconstruction efforts...
Surgeries are messy
Srinath Raghavan & Rudra Chaudhuri India’s own experience with the idea of limited air strikes underscores the key problems. In 1981, the Indian government...
Kind words and guns
Sushant K Singh A dispassionate analysis shows that more than the Pakistani nuclear blackmail or half-hearted support from the Western powers, it is India’s declining...
Allies, not friends
Dhruva Jaishankar Despite Indian perceptions of gullible American officials being led around by the nose by their Pakistani counterparts, recent US policy towards...
A flawed sense of security
Bernard Haykel SAUDI ARABIA has a special and close strategic relationship with Pakistan, somewhat similar to the one between the United States and Israel, but...
New dynamics of an all weather friendship
Zorawar Daulet Singh In the coming years, China’s policy for Pakistan will be driven by multiple factors. First, while the anti-India hedge in Beijing’s Pakistan...
Europe’s dilemma
Richard Gowan Given the parallels between terrorist attacks in Europe and India, New Delhi might seem the obvious partner. That isn’t always the case. This...


