Strategic Analyses, January 2012 Issue Published

January 25, 2012

New Delhi January 25, 2012: China is the focus of the January issue of the Strategic Analyses, a bi-monthly journal of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). ‘Social Capital and its significance in reimagining Chindia’ and an in depth analyses examining China’s Hydro Behaviour by IDSA scholars Joe Karackattu and Dr Uttam Sinha respectively, are some of the prominent articles published in the journal, which also has an array of articles and commentaries covering a wide spectrum of global issues.

The issue also has a policy initiation on ‘Climate Change and Conflict in South Asia Change’. In keeping with the journal’s desire to reach out and have a healthy mix of in-house and outside scholarship, this current issue has six such contributions.

The neighbourhood features an article on ‘Bhutan’s Foreign Policy’ and ‘India’s Economic Miracle and its Impact on Nepal’. Some of the other issues pertain to nuclear, India’s land borders and energy security. One particular article on India’s crude oil diversification has new approach of analyses, based on ‘times series forecast’.

Published by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, the journal provides a forum for independent research, analyses, and commentaries on national, regional and international security issues that have policy relevance. It seeks to promote a better understanding of Indian thinking on contemporary national and international themes. The Journal reflects a diversity of views from the strategic and international relations studies community, both from within and outside India.