Partition Research Projects: Their Achievements and Shortcomings
As India and Pakistan celebrate their respective independence days on August 15th and August 14th, there are miniscule and steadily shrinking sections of the population […]
Category: Research
Either Eat Grass or Confront the Bomb – There Is Room for Middle Ground
It’s amazing how academia (pretty much like any field) contains its share of pessimists and optimists who manage to polarize opinion. The caveat that needs […]
Quote of the Week: Illusions of the Nuclear Age
In India’s Nuclear Bomb, George Perkovich offers four “exploded illusions” of the nuclear age: 1. Security concerns decisively determine proliferation, 2. Nonproliferation is the flip-side of […]
Article Review: “New Delhi’s Long Nuclear Journey: How Secrecy and Institutional Roadblocks Delayed India’s Weaponization”
Article Review: Gaurav Kampani. “New Delhi’s Long Nuclear Journey: How Secrecy and Institutional Roadblocks Delayed India’s Weaponization,” International Security 38:4 (Spring 2014): 79-114. Gaurav Kampani examines […]
Voices this Week: Nuclear Scholarship
Voices this Week draws together published material on an important strategic issue in South Asia. This week: we draw upon an ongoing conversation on the merits […]
India’s Impending Strategic Culture Debate, Part III
Read Part One Here Read Part Two Here Take a trip to Kew Gardens if you are in London or the RER to La Courneuve […]
India’s Impending Strategic Culture Debate, Part II
Read Part One Here It is understandable for a young but civilizational state to be lost at the same time in celebrity names like Kautilya […]
Video: Sitakanta Mishra and Mansoor Ahmed on Cooperative Measures for Risk Reduction
Back in December, two Generation Why bloggers – Sitakanta Mishra and Mansoor Ahmed – presented their joint research on “Cooperative Measures to Support the India-Pakistan […]
Challenging Existing Narratives: History-Writing as a CBM in South Asia
Past is prologue A few months back, Rabia Akhtar and Jayita Sarkar (hereafter Rabs and Jay) bumped into each other online over proposing a panel […]
An Indian Nuclear Weapons Debate
What do you do if you are a young researcher in India attempting to study India’s nuclear weapons programme – the history, the policy and […]