Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2247767
N. Nayak
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Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2247755
A. Klishas
{"title":"Prospects for the Process of Modernization of the Public Power Mechanism: The Experience of Constitutional Reforms in the CIS Countries","authors":"A. Klishas","doi":"10.1080/09700161.2023.2247755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2023.2247755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45012,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47731412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2204590
Subhash Bhambhu
{"title":"The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War","authors":"Subhash Bhambhu","doi":"10.1080/09700161.2023.2204590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2023.2204590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45012,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42699799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-06DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2204588
S. Mahalanobis
{"title":"Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Relations: Towards Indo-Pacific","authors":"S. Mahalanobis","doi":"10.1080/09700161.2023.2204588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2023.2204588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45012,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42649703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2204589
N. A. Mir
{"title":"Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation","authors":"N. A. Mir","doi":"10.1080/09700161.2023.2204589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2023.2204589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45012,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47270206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2202457
D. Pillay, Vijay Sakhare
Abstract This Article reviews Kerala’s efforts to check the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) without additional expenditure or infrastructure and employing the state police forces. This was remarkable in the face of the fact that healthcare systems were stretched the world over and were struggling beyond capacity to treat the number of people affected by the virus. To add to the overstretched healthcare systems, there were reports of attacks on healthcare workers and facilities. The state of Kerala was among the first to report a coronavirus case in January 2020. Against this backdrop, Kerala’s approach to mobilize the state’s resources, particularly the police, ran counter to that of many other states and their demands for assistance and financial support from the central government. This article details how one state addressed the problem during a national and international crisis. It includes a review of Kerala’s lateral thinking and successful case studies from the field. This research provides strategic thinking and solutions that other states could potentially follow when dealing with pandemics within their borders, both today and in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2243079
Tejusvi Shukla
Abstract Influence Operations (IOs) are tailored actions to shape perceptions of a targeted audience within the information domain. They pursue political, economic, social, or military outcomes. Their adaptable transparent nature poses challenges for containment. Pakistan’s IOs, active since Partition, target India a (especially Jammu and Kashmir) through State agencies like the Inter-Services Public Relations and its support to non-State entities. Their objectives vary from destabilization to reshaping the culture of J&K. The Article examines Pakistan’s IOs focussing on core elements: operation narratives and dissemination means for influencing the target audience. It investigates their evolution considering historical roots and categorizing them as ‘Short-term’ and ‘Long-term Projects.’ Author’s depiction of the timeline of IOs in J&K. (Note that IOs overlap in time. Watertight classifications do not exist.).
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2190616
Muneeb Yousuf
A sserting sovereignty across its territories remains the primary purpose of the modern State. There exist two kinds of sovereignties: legal sovereignty and de facto sovereignty. While legal sovereignty encompasses the formal ideologies of rule and legality, de facto sovereignty includes the actual ability to kill, punish, and discipline a specific fragment of society or a section of it. Non-State actors can also perform the latter deeds. In the context of de facto sovereignty, the post-colonial State of Pakistan offers a distinctive understanding of the enmeshment of ‘multiple sovereignties’––ranging from militant and tribal groups to America’s drone strikes within its territories. Both the Pakistani State and non-State actors, such as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), indulge in violence as an expression of claiming their sovereignty and control over the life and death of the people in Pakistan. Besides this, the claimants to sovereignty fight through other means, although not necessarily in a violent manner with a sole purpose of cultivating sovereign attachments. The TTP, an amalgam of several Pakistan-based militant groups, was formed in 2007 and ever since has not only resorted to violence but also used old and new media and information and communication technology to project the Pakistani State and military as un-Islamic. Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s Sovereign Attachments studies print and online contents including videos, songs, magazine articles, and essays of both the Pakistani State and the TTP. The book argues that through these cultural productions both are trying to capture the attention of the same sets of religiously inclined people to prove their Islamic credentials. The TTP’s invoking of Khilafat in their magazines is done with a specific purpose— that of arousing past Muslim glory and reproducing such political order, for which they conceive themselves as ‘chosen’ by God, and also with the aim of fostering ambivalence towards the State of Pakistan (p.14). For the TTP, sovereignty belongs exclusively to Allah and this belief sharply opposes the State’s sovereignty. In the public relations production of the Pakistani Army, Khoja-Moolji argues that mourning mothers of slain soldiers are cast in a manner so as to generate reattachment to the State. A blend of Islam and masculinity that Khoja-Moolji terms Islamo-masculinity occurs as a dominant conception through which the Pakistani State and the TTP Strategic Analysis, 2023 Vol. 47, No. 2, 180–182, https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2023.2190616
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2023.2191238
Anushka Saxena
Abstract As contestation in outer space has evolved into increased militarization since the Cold War era, multiple stakeholders have come to play a significant role in shaping the international regime governing activities of State and non-State actors in outer space. India has interacted with this international regime in a dynamic manner, and currently contributes about 2 per cent to the US$ 360 billion global space industry. Its own security compulsions in outer space are shaped by its national interests vis-a-vis data collection, C4ISR, satellite communications, and of course, deterrence against the rising military might of hostile countries in its neighbourhood—China and Pakistan. In this light, this article looks at the potential of India’s domestic material and policy-based space architecture, including the functioning of ISRO and its collaboration with the private sector, as well as India’s current space-based assets and ASAT capabilities. On the basis of this assessment of India’s current institutional and infrastructural assets for outer space, the article also attempts to chart a trajectory forward for India’s space policy and counter-space capabilities.
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