China’s Gray Zone Tactics in the Indian Ocean
In the last few years, there has been a growing presence of Chinese fishing and research vessels in the waters of the Indian Ocean. Indian […]
Pooja Bhatt
Pooja Bhatt is a PhD candidate at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (Diplomacy and Disarmament division), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is also working as a Research Associate at Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi on Nine Dash Line project. In the past she interned at Indian Council of World Affairs, Sapru House. Pooja focuses on issues related to strategic studies such as civil- military relations, nuclear energy and disarmament, counterterrorism, and maritime issues particularly South China Sea.
Articles by Pooja Bhatt
ASEAN’s Outlook for the Indo-Pacific: An Attempt to Set Rules of the Game
Negating allegations that the grouping takes weak positions on issues of geostrategic sensitivity, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently came out with the […]
India-United States 2+2 Dialogue: Time to Ask Difficult Questions
Going by the famous American expression “third time’s the charm,” the twice-postponed Indo-U.S. 2+2 dialogue is the awaited event of the year, finally taking place […]
A Tenuous Moment: Overcoming Current Roadblocks in the Indo-U.S. Partnership
The India-U.S. 2+2 dialogue scheduled for July 6, 2018 has been put on hold by the United States for the second time due to “unavoidable […]
Achieving Indian Air Dominance in the Indian Ocean Region
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has an important role to play for regional peace and prosperity as the “road of development in the twenty-first century.” […]
Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium: India’s Case
Since India and Pakistan became nuclear-armed powers in 1998, the contentious and escalatory dynamics between these two rivals have been a point of concern not […]
America First and its Implications for the Indo-Pacific
One year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s four year term, his administration is formulating its approach to the world, as evidenced by the Pentagon’s release […]
Off Ramps Review: The Misguided MIRV-BMD Link
Editor’s note: This is the first piece in South Asian Voices’ review series of the Off Ramps Initiative, a Stimson Center project that examines the […]
Banning the Bomb: India Abstains on Ban Vote, Bides Time
The UN General Assembly recently adopted a resolution calling for the commencement of negotiations in 2017 for a “legally binding instrument” to prohibit nuclear weapons. […]
“Uri: What Next?”- A Response
Last month’s Uri attack and India’s subsequent surgical strikes in retaliation have provoked a heated debate in both India and Pakistan. SAV contributor Rabia Akhtar, […]