Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on comprehensive national power (CNP),  titled ‘Demographic dividend should not turn into a disaster’ was published in Deccan Herald on November 1, 2016.

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The world order seems to be on the cusp of a major transformation. A potential power realignment seems to slowly shaping up with a hitherto unlikely combination (at least partly) of Russia, China and Pakistan, seeking to challenge the great power status quo, or pushing for greater bipolarity in global affairs.

New Delhi will respond by executing its doctrine of massive retaliation and Islamabad will cease to exist as a functional nation state.

'The government has sent a clear message to Pakistan: It is no longer business as usual.'
'The rules of the game have changed and a new game is at play,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).

Like panthers prowling in the dead of night, several teams of the Special Forces of the Indian army crossed the Line of Control (LoC) on the night of 28 September. They struck with deadly effect and, as quietly as they had come in, they exfiltrated back across the LoC.

In his briefing after the attack in Uri on 18 September, the DGMO had said that the army “reserves the right to respond” to the terrorist strike at Uri at a time and place of its choosing. It took ten days to plan the operation, which was based on accurate intelligence.

It is a widely held belief that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was highly relevant for India and its foreign policy interests during the bipolar era of the Cold War and that it has, since the 1990s, lost this relevance in a unipolar international order.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on recent developments in India-Pakistan relations, titled ‘India-Pak ties: We need to act more, talk less’ was published in The Tribune on September 29, 2016.

Visiting Fellow, IDSA, Umesh Kumar Bhattarai’s opinion on US-India-Nepal alliance, titled ‘US-India-Nepal alliance: Countering China’ was published in The Himalayan on September 28, 2016.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Mr Vinod Kumar's chapter titled ‘Between Idealism, Activism, and the Bomb: Why did India Reject the NPT?’ was published in the Routledge edited volume ‘Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Origins of the Nuclear Order, edited by Popp Roland, Liviu Horovitz and Andreas Wenger. 

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Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Reshmi Kazi’s article on the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), titled ‘CTBT at 20: India and an Unequal Treaty’ was published in South Asian Voices on September 23, 2016.