Asian Strategic Review 2015

Dealing directly with strategic developments pertaining to Asia, this analysis considers the diverse push-and-pull factors impinging on a country's strategic posture. Beginning with international security issues, this survey discusses India's responses to global-energy security challenges, emerging military technologies and their security implications for India, and the nuclear nonproliferation regime. With in-depth investigations of major events in numerous regions of India's immediate and extended strategic neighborhood, this discussion also covers the evolving partnership between India and the United States and an evaluation of the India-Pakistan peace process. Comprehensive and thorough, this examination also features a statistical appendix containing defense- and conflict-related data.

Nation-states are compelled to function within the parameters of their respective geo-political and geo-strategic environment. The behavior of nations, and the interplay of their strengths and vulnerabilities, particularly, their foreign and military posturing, is predicated on geographic, political and economic factors. Besides, historical imperatives also coalesce in determining the way States shape their policies. Many Asian countries today are threatened by a war that is of a subtle and imperceptible nature. There is also a paradigm shift in the perception of national security, especially with the blurring of the notion of internal and external security. This is reflected in the growing military expenditures of several Asian countries. This volume attempts to examine the critical factors that influence the foreign and defense policies of Asian countries. It provides comprehensive information and analyses of the strengths, needs, aspirations and compulsions that shape their strategic and military outlook..