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.