Environment, National Security & Game Theory
When the cold war was at its height, the concept of security revolved around deterrence and the two super powers. One wanted to domesticise the universe, the other to universalize the domestic working class militancy. In the middle of the eighties, a new awareness emerged to questioning the relevance of mindless militancy built up as a means to define national security on a maximum – minimum continuum paradigm. In the US the discontentment of public brewed oven the military expenditure that could be expended on maximizing their domestic imperatives in terms of inordinate consumption, exorbitant lifestyle and production of wealth – in Soviet Union, questioning the logic of military expenditure without providing the minimum needs to its people came to the fore with winding down of its iron curtain. Read More
Deterrence Against A Rogue State
Conventional deterrence models from Thomas Schelling (1966) to Frank Zagare (2004), including Robert Axelrod, Robert Jervis are primarily applicable to conventional warfare. Where as in multipolar world Richardsonion model finds its application. Classical deterrence theory emphasizes on, proportionality, reciprocity, coercive capability and rationality. Whether one is nuclear optimist or pessimist, it has worked a long way.
The tremendous gap in the theory and practice that globe faces today, is due to the changing nature of warfare in light of the emergence of rogue states and terrorism as an instrument of state policy. Read More
Chinese Soft Power, Confucianism and Fault Lines
For most Indian scholars the Chinese culture in general revolve around “Confucianism “ and as such, there is a serious lack of appreciation of diversity and dynamism in Chinese ideology.
For over 8000nd years the fundamental spiritual belief in China was in form of Shamanism (Lee and Wang, 2007, Xu 1991,Yuan,1988) which was to connect inner world with the outer world, body with the soul. Out of this Confucianism and Daoism developed, which affected China for over 1000nds of years (Hsu, 1981) during the disintegration of Zhou dynasty (841-256 B.C.) chaotic political and social changes have risen to “Hundred Schools of Thought”. Read More
Trump’s Kashmir Test for India-US Relations
US President Donald Trump proclaimed an illusory deliberation notionally implored by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fix the almost seven-decade Kashmir conflict through mediation, while courting Pakistani PM Imran Khan in the Oval Office on July 22. Trump conveniently disregarded India‟s definitive policy to settle the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan exclusively through bilateral negotiations. Since 1972 Shimla agreement, India deterred several attempts of successive US administrations to mediate, but Trump‟s reference to a dreamlike Modi‟s invitation to mediate triggered intense reactions in the Indian parliament, media houses and among the cliques of international policy experts. Read More
The Importance of GCC countries in India’s Quest for Economic Power House: A Review
Since the economic reforms of 1991, India has emerged as an important nation in world economic order. Currently India is 3rd largest economy in PPP terms with GDP size of USD 10.4 Trillion and 6th largest economy in nominal terms with GDP size of USD 2.69 trillion. It has foreign exchange reserves in the tune of USD 400 billion. The current GDP growth rate estimate for India is more than 7 %. Though these numbers are indicative of India‟s importance in world economy, yet it has a current account deficit which expected at 2.8 % of GDP, this primarily due to oil imports as India imports over 82 per cent of its crude requirement through imports. The Current Account Deficit (CAD) exerts pressure on Indian Currency INR as it depreciates against USD. The current account deficit is funded through capital flows and one of the important sources of Capital Flows is NRI Remittances. According to the World Bank report India Tops the global remittance amounting to USD 80 billion. The bulk of the Remittance are originates from GCC Countries. In light of such parameters and conditions, this paper explores the Economic linkages of GCC and India and how it will help India for its quest for Economic Power House in the future. Read More
