Adil Rasheed

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s chapter ‘Decodifying Taliban and ISKP in Afghanistan’ has featured in the recently published USI Strategic Year Book 2023.

The book highlights how Deobandi Taliban's doctrinal differences with Salafi-jihadist ISIS have a bearing on the two organization's respective strategic objectives and designs, decision-making, mode of warfare, tactical choices and even desired end-state.

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• Published: 30 June, 2023

China and Iran claim to be building a new security architecture for West Asia on the pretext of keeping out the “unjustified” presence of “foreign forces”.

• Published: June 15, 2023
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The persistence of conceptual confusion regarding terms associated with terrorism impedes the legitimacy and effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns.

• Published: May 02, 2023
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The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) has claimed responsibility for last year’s botched Coimbatore and Mangalore blasts in an attempt to show its expanding influence, which raises serious concerns for Indian security agencies.

• Published: April 05, 2023
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Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article, ‘The Historic Seven Cities of Delhi’ has been published in the Journal of Peace Studies (Volume 29, Issue 2 - April to December 2022).

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• Published: 29 March, 2023

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s chapter 'Arab Spring and the French Revolution: The Longue Durée of Transformation' has been published in the book 'Arab Spring and its Legacies', edited by Sujata Ashwarya and Mujib Alam and published by Knowledge World, 2023 (ISBN : 9789394915282)

The chapter posits that it may be too early to write off the soc-alled Arab Spring upheavals as the French Revolution itself took nearly a hundred years to produce a democratic government in France after the Fall of Bastille in 1789. In fact, there was a period of Reign of Terror by the Jacobin leader Robespierre, Napoleonic wars and then the counter-revolution coup of the monarchical order in the Congress of Vienna of 1815. Similar upheavals have been witnessed following the Arab Spring upheavals, with initial strengthening of totalitarian regimes, rise of terrorist groups like ISIS and yet the gradual introduction of political and socio-economic reforms by many Arab governments to placate their restive populations.

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• Published: 25 January, 2023

The petrodollar system that came into existence in the 1970s has come under stress, with oil being traded increasingly in non-US denominated currencies.

• Published: January 18, 2023
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In a country like Pakistan, where none of its Prime Ministers could ever complete a full five-year term in office, the role of the so-called ‘deep State’ — a term used as a euphemism for its Army—in exercising disproportionate control over the affairs of the country—has often been highlighted.

• Published: January-February 2023
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Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed contributed a chapter on Indian response to the COVID crisis in the recently published Routledge book titled 'COVID-19 in South, West, and Southeast Asia Risk and Response in the Early Phase', edited by Rohan Gunaratna and Mohd Mizan Aslam.

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• Published: 8 December, 2022

With the war in Ukraine moving towards an uncertain resolution, there is a danger that the influx of heavy weaponry and foreign fighters could bring in a new set of imponderables into an already vicious and escalating conflict.

• Published: March 28, 2022
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