A Year after 26/11: Soft Responses of a Reluctant State

A. Vinod Kumar
A. Vinod Kumar was Associate Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), and a Visiting Faculty at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS), University… Continue reading A Year after 26/11: Soft Responses of a Reluctant State read more
Volume:33
Issue:6
Commentaries

Why are the two largest democracies – India and the United States – starkly different when it comes to tackling terrorism? The answer to this perplexing question could lie in the two countries’ divergent approach to security and management of national security resources. Equally relevant is the variance in their political resoluteness in exercising suitable responses to emergent threats.