Pakistan’s military is set to launch a major military operation in North Waziristan, which will have a significant impact on the country’s relationship with Afghanistan.
For the Indian army to remain national, it has to be multicultural—and this problem may need to be addressed as urgently as those pertaining to arms procurement.
As the crisis in Crimea deepens, the formal arguments between Russia and the West are about two perennial themes in international politics—sovereignty and intervention.
In India, what merits attention is the sequence and timing of capital account liberalization, and the establishment of institutional capability for fiscal, financial, and monetary policy.
Over the past decade, corruption in Afghanistan has crystallized into a business of structured networks, with subordinates paying up the line for protection from repercussions.
Since early 2013 one question has dominated Indian political discourse: will there be a “wave of support” for Narendra Modi of the main opposition BJP?
The mutual attraction between police officers and the BJP raises an obvious question: do BJP-ruled states have better records than others when it comes to law and order?
As India prepares to head to the polls in the next few months, much of the attention has been focused on the rise of regional parties and their potential impact on the national results.
There has been a real and significant rupture in U.S.-India relations, but ultimately the fundamental imperatives that drove the positive transformation of the bilateral relationship have not changed.
It is clear to students of monetary economics that an inflation-targeting framework is the way forward for India, which is opening up its capital account and moving towards a flexible exchange rate regime.