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Can the State avoid monitoring Internet?
Manoj Joshi
12 June 2013
The compulsion of states to trawl ever increasing volumes of data must also be understood. Besides criminal activities like child pornography, money laundering and online fraud, the Internet is also an important vehicle for the jihadist terrorist. A great deal of recruitment and motivation takes place online.
 
No need to fear even if Taliban comes back to power
Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
11 June 2013
India's apprehensions about Taliban are far from reality. The US experience will ensure that Afghanistan can never again become a training area or launch pad for fundamentalist forces. Drones and the vast array of other options available to the US preclude this. Taliban also would have learnt some lessons from the past events.
 
International Space Code: EU needs to be patient
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
07 June 2013
The EU, having taken the lead in initiating the international space code, must be patient in taking it to a meaningful conclusion. It must engage in wider consultations at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels as a means to bridge the political divide between states.
 
North Korean imbroglio: Who can do what?
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
16 April 2013
While on the surface, both the US (and South Korea and Japan) and China appear to have the goal of seeing a stable Korean Peninsula, there appear to be serious differences about what regional stability means.
 
ATT implementation remains questionable
Rahul Prakash
06 April 2013
The ATT has finally been adopted. But it remains to be seen if the treaty could really be implemented as major players like China, India, Russia have not favoured it. Even the US could find it difficult to ratify ATT back home despite voting in its favour.
 
A ray of hope in US-Russia relations?
Uma Purushothaman
05 April 2013
Russia's response to new missile defence plans of the US points to Moscow's continued distrust of Washington. However, Moscow and Washington have announced a meeting to discuss the new missile deployment plans in Moscow in late May this year. Perhaps, a breakthrough is still possible.
 
Reviving India-Egypt defence cooperation
C. Raja Mohan
20 March 2013
Although both India and Egypt are distracted by domestic political concerns, establishing a strong institutional links between the two military establishments will benefit both countries.
 
New sanctions, old debate: The case of North Korea
Rishika Chauhan
13 March 2013
The US threats and its troop presence in South Korea are alleged to have contributed to North Korean insecurity, but its drive to develop more nuclear weaponry cannot be understood without taking into account domestic dynamics. To bring about a genuine change in North Korea's behaviour, its internal dynamics will have to be considered.
 
No solace in this quantum of accountability
Samir Saran and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
26 February 2013
Deploying the "national security" argument against reform in the intelligence agencies is a fig leaf for defending cronyism, incompetence, inefficiency, and corruption. A proper regulatory mechanism can only strengthen national security, not weaken it. It is time to bring in facts and lessons from global best practices to this debate.
 
Asteroids, meteors and planetary defence
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
18 February 2013
Prior to the meteor hit in Russia and Asteroid 2012 DA 14's close miss, the Indian public and its policy makers likely could just not comprehend such a distant, seemingly un-real threat. Perhaps now, this will not be the case.
 
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