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The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina is a multidisciplinary research center focused at the intersection of politics, policies and ideas.

International Relations

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The big questions in public policy today are too often viewed from just one national perspective. Yet, many of the challenges facing the United States today are not unique to this country. The Pell Center project on global challenges examines difficult public issues from an international perspective. Through studies and events, we explore issues in health care, education, aging, criminal justice and more in order to understand how other modern, industrial societies deal with the same critical challenges. In understanding the global response to these issues, we may find lessons for American policy makers. At minimum, we’ll deepen the understanding of our shared human experience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

International Relations Reports

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The Subsurface Dimension of Sino-Indian Maritime Rivalry

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]India & China at Sea - Iskander Rehman chapterAuthor: Iskander Rehman

Senior Fellow Iskander Rehman  has a chapter in a new book on Sino-Indian naval rivalry published by Oxford University Press titled, “The Subsurface Dimension of Sino-Indian Maritime Rivalry.”

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New Horizons, New Risks: A Scenario-based Approach to Thinking about the Future of Crisis Stability in South Asia

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]New Horizons, New RisksAuthor: Iskander Rehman

In his contribution to a new edited volume produced by The Stimson Center, Senior Fellow Iskander Rehman explores various potential crisis scenarios in South Asia. His chapter is titled, New Horizons, New Risks: A Scenario-based Approach to Thinking about the Future of Crisis Stability in South Asia.

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The Corruption of American Conservatism

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Corruption of American ConservatismAuthor: Iskander Rehman

In this Pell Center publication, Dr. Rehman chronicles the corruption of American conservatism in the Trump era. Many of America’s leading postwar conservative intellectuals, he argues, would have trouble recognizing the current ideological trajectory of the GOP.

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India, China, and differing conceptions of the maritime order

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Author: Iskander Rehman

The law of the sea is one of the structural pillars of the international order. The complex rules and norms that govern freedom of navigation and maritime economic activity have played a crucial role in maintaining the global commons free from policies of enclosure, coercion and expropriation. Drawing on the relevant strategic and legal literature, this report engages in a comparative analysis of India and China’s attitudes towards the law of the sea. It charts the growing divergences—both normative and behavioral—between Asia’s two great rising powers with regard to freedom of navigation and maritime territorial disputes. It concludes by analyzing the ramifications of these developments for the future of global stability.

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India’s Fitful Quest for Seapower

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Author: Iskander Rehman

Building on several years of research, field trips, and many interviews of Indian military officers and government officials, both serving and retired, this article aims to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the Indian Navy in India’s grand strategy. In particular, it seeks to explain a troubling paradox: the relative neglect of the navy vis-à-vis the other services, and the seeming misalignment of New Delhi’s military strategy with its maritime geography.

 

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A Himalayan Challenge: India’s Conventional Deterrent and the Role of Special Operations Forces Along the Sino-Indian Border

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Author: Iskander Rehman

Dr. Rehman’s article aims to give a clearer picture of the security dynamic along the Sino-Indian border. It draws on field trips to the Himalayan border states of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir as well as close to thirty interviews with intelligence officials and Indian Army (IA) and special forces officers, both serving and retired.

The article lays out the operational benefits to be accrued from the tailored employment of Indian special operations forces in a number of potential conflict contingencies along the Sino-Indian border. While warning against an overreliance on special operators,  it argues strongly in favor of a better integration in-between Indian special and general purpose forces.

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