Publications

List of Publications- As of May 2015

Gateway House Articles:

• “Defence and India’s private sector”, May 21, 2015, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/the-business-of-defence-role-of-indias-private-sector/
• “OBOR and India’s security concerns”, May 14, 2015, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/security-implications-of-chinas-transnational-corridors/
• Addressing the future of cybersecurity”, March 5, 2015, URL: http://www.friendsofeurope.org/media/uploads/2015/02/SecurityJamReport2014-finalLR.pdf
• “Business underpins India-U.S. defence deal”, January 30, 2015, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/business-underpins-india-u-s-defence-deal/, Re-published by Business Standard Aero India special supplement, February 2015
• “The ‘deep web’: new threat to business”, January 6, 2015, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/the-deep-web-new-threat-to-business/
• “Combating terror financing through SAARC”, November 25, 2014, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/combating-terror-financing-through-saarc/
• “Policy Catalyst: India’s Privacy Law,” June 13, 2014, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/policy-catalyst-crafting-indias-privacy-law/
• “Pre-election flood of fake currency”, March 31, 2014, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/pre-election-flood-of-fake-currency/
• “India’s depleting naval strength,” Mint, February 28, 2014, URL: http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/5XsB8liYFec4GkfOmBOgsN/Indias-depleting-naval-strength.html
• “India’s top security risks in 2014,” January 16, 2014, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/indias-top-security-risks-in-2014/
• “Not the next Stuxnet victim”, The Pioneer, January 3, 2014, URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/ite/not-the-next-stuxnet-victim.html
• “What Mehsud’s death means” November 11, 2013, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/what-mehsuds-death-means/
• “INS Sindhurakshak: Lessons for the Indian Navy,” Gateway House Security Briefing, Volume XII dated August 22, 2013.
• “Rupee: Declining and counterfeiting,” Gateway House Security Briefing, Volume XI dated August 8, 2013.
• “Countering the Chinese at Chumar,” Gateway House Security Briefing, Volume X dated July 31, 2013.
• “What the Abbottabad report didn’t reveal,” Asia Times Online, July 15, 2013, URL: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/SOU-02-150713.html
• “Convergence and divergence in Beijing,” Rising Kashmir, July 12, 2013.
• “Depsang Valley Incursion,” Rising Kashmir, June 11, 2013.
• “India-China: Diverging, still,” May 24, 2013, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/india-china-diverging-still/
• “Bargaining Chip: Pakistan’s potential as trade and transit partner,” Rising Kashmir, May 12, 2013.
• “Finding common ground to counter terror,” May 17, 2013, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/finding-common-ground-to-counter-terror/
• “The upward swing of Beijing’s military industrial complex,” India Today, May 16, 2013, URL: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/china-military-industrial-complex-arms-import-india/1/271328.html
• “Technology overtakes legislation as 3D printed gun makes a debut,” Gateway House Security Briefing, Volume IX dated May 16, 2013
• “Bringing Kashmir back on the economic track,” April 19, 2013, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/bringing-kashmir-back-on-the-economic-track/
• “The new, sharper sabre from Beijing,” April 16, 2013, URL: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/the-new-sharper-sabre-from-beijing/

Book

• India’s China Policy in the 1950s: Examining Perceptual Factors and Balance of Power Theory, VDM Publishing House Ltd., Saarbrücken (Germany), 2011.

 Articles in refereed journals

• “India-US Civilian Nuclear Cooperation and Strategic Partnership”, Défense Nationale (Paris), December 2008, pp. 133-140.
• “Understanding the Phalcon Controversy”, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (Jerusalem), II (2), 2008, pp. 91-98. Also re-published as MEI Occasional Paper, No. 20, November 2010.
• “Globalisation and Armed Conflicts in Contemporary International Politics”, The Atlantic Journal of World Affairs, 3(1), January-March 2008, pp. 55-72.
• “India’s China Policy in the 1950s: Threat Perceptions and Balances”, South Asian Survey, 14 (2), July-December 2007, pp. 283-301.
• “Review Article: New Star on the Horizon: Rise of the PLA Navy”, China Report, 43 (4), October-December 2007, pp. 521-529.

 Articles in non-refereed journals

• “Sarabjit Singh Controversy and the Question of Indian Prisoners in Pakistan”, Epilogue (Jammu), June 2008.
• “Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue: An Update”, IPCS Special Report, No. 53, June 2008.
• “Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan on Disarmament in the Present Context”, Proliferation and Arms Control, April 2008.
• “Finishing the Fourth Round of India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue”, Epilogue (Jammu), April 2008.
• “IAEA Fuel Bank and the Assurance of Uninterrupted Fuel Supplies”, Proliferation and Arms Control, March 2008.
• “India and FMCT: Issues and Concerns”, CBRN South Asia Brief, No. 2, March 2008.
• “Pakistan Elections and India-Pakistan Peace Process”, Epilogue (Jammu), March 2008.
• “Siachen: A Peace Mountain?”, Epilogue (Jammu), November 2007.
• “New Delhi’s Kashmir Policy”, Epilogue (Jammu), October 2007.
• “Indo-Pak Peace Process”, IPCS Strategic Review, (New Delhi), December 2006, 17: 13-14.
• “India External Relations: Diplomacy Under Trying Circumstances”, IPCS Strategic Review (New Delhi), November 2006, 16: 6-8.
• “Indo-Pak Peace Process”, IPCS Strategic Review (New Delhi), September 2006, 15: 13-14.
• “Lashkar-e-Taiba: Unmasking the New Face”, Peace and Conflict (New Delhi), 9 (6): 3-5.
• “India-US Civilian Nuclear Deal: Impact on Asian Balance of Power”, Peace and Conflict (New Delhi), 9 (4): 5-6.

 Articles on websites

• “Explaining the India-US Logistics Agreement”, IPCS, [Online: web] 28 February 2008 URL:

http://www.ipcs.org/whatsNewArticle1.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2516&status=article&mod=b

• “Leaps in the Dark for India-Pakistan Relations ”, IPCS, [Online: web] 28 December 2007 URL: http://www.ipcs.org/newKashmirLevel2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2466&subCatID=null&mod=null
• “The Shang Class: China’s Growing Submarine Force”, IPCS, [Online: web] 28 September 2007 URL: http://www.ipcs.org/whatsNewArticle1.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2397&status=article&mod=b.
• “Once upon a time, along the Silk Route”, Epilogue (Jammu), September 2007.
• “Nathu La Six Months Later”, IPCS, [Online: web] 9 January 2007 URL: http://www.ipcs.org/whatsNewArticle11.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2198&status=article&mod=b.

Book Reviews

• Jagat S. Mehta (2006), Negotiating for India: Resolving Problems through Diplomacy, (New Delhi: Manohar), in Contemporary South Asia, 17 (2), June 2009, pp. 234-235.
• Prakash Nanda (ed.) (2007), Rising India: Friends and Foes (New Delhi: Lancer Publications), in South Asia Research, 28 (2), 2008, pp. 235-236.
• Kalyani Shankar (2007), India and the United States: Politics of the Sixties (New Delhi: Macmillan India), in Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, 3(1), January-March 2008, pp. 117-118.
• Edward C. O’Dowd (2007), Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War (London and New York: Routeldge), in Proceedings: The Independent Forum on National Defense (from US Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland), December 2007, pp. 75-76.
• Jeremy Black (2004), War and the New Disorder in the 21st Century (London: Continuum), in Asteriskos: Journal of International and Peace Studies, Vol. 5 and 6 (2008), pp. 279-281.
• Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2006), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (London and New York: Zed Books), in Politikon, 34 (1), April 2007, pp. 102-104.
• Joseph Stiglitz (2004), The Roaring Nineties, (New Delhi: Penguin), in BVIMR Management Edge, 2 (1), January-June 2006, pp. 61-63.

 Co-authored articles

• With Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee, “India and China: Forging a new vision for Asia”, Asian Studies, XXVI (1), January-June 2008, pp. 48-54.
• With Aparajita Mazumdar and Kamla Kanta Dash, “SAARC Towards Greater Connectivity”, IPCS Conference Report, January 2008.
• With Naresh Kumar Verma, “Problems and Prospects in the North Korean Denuclearisation Process”, Proliferation and Arms Control, IV (10), December 2007, pp. 1-5.