Polaris  

Are Pakistan’s demands for U.S. drone technology intended to advance its cruise missile program?

The IPL player auction represented the tragic blurring of two distinct spheres of experience: politics and cricket.

Permanent UN Security Council membership for India is not just unlikely, it’s undesirable. Why then do we care so much about it?

I must admit to being surprised by Vir Sanghvi’s recent column for The Hindustan Times, not because of how taken in he appears to have been with former U.S. president George W. Bush, but rather how convinced [...]

How does one measure prosperity? And what could that mean for the geopolitical future?

If the Pakistani military finds the Kerry-Lugar Bill distasteful, well, then it’s a job well done.

What should be the role of think tanks and the independent policy analysts they house?

Our collective approach to analyzing Indian foreign and security policies is, at its core, flawed. We must reset our basic assumptions. We must not skirt around asking “why.”

How Yukio Hatoyama aproaches Asia, more broadly, will likely dictate how he engages India.

Rahul Sagar describes four competing visions of Indian foreign policy. While his is a bold argument, I am more inclined towards a trifurcation of India’s strategic community.

The European parliamentary elections highlight two worrying trends for its political future. The first is apparent voter fatigue with the idea of Europe. The second is the rise of the anti-immigration far-right. Immigration is an emotion issue, yet there is a clear link between developed states’ abilities to incorporate immigrants and the dynamism and resilience of their economies.