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Trump 2.0: The Impact of Donald Trump’s Victory on the European Security Architecture

November 19, 2024 Dr Shreya Sinha, Research Associate, VIF Article

As the European capitals prepare for the former Republican President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a significant geopolitical and geostrategic shift is inevitable. Trump’s policies could create potential upheaval across the Atlantic a....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US

Tags : Article , Donald Trump , Europe , Security , European Union , NATO , Ukraine , Transatlantic cooperation , Trade Wars

Tensions in Russia-Japan Relations

November 18, 2024 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

The Russia-Ukraine war has cast a deep shadow over Russia-Japan relations. The immediate prospects for improvement look bleak. Japan imposed sanctions on Russia a day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Russia reacted by inc....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia

Tags : Article , North Korea , Russia , Indo-Pacific , Japan

Review of the 21st Valdai Discussion Club Meeting

November 14, 2024 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

In a wide ranging four hour long open and frank interaction with the participants of the Valdai Discussion Club (VDC) meeting held in Sochi on 07 Nov 2024, Putin touched upon a variety of issues ranging from the rise of new multilateralism, the prosp....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Commentary , India , Putin , Ukraine War , Valdai Club , Non-west , Trump election

Air India Flight 182: A Tale of Canada's Pampering of Canadian Khalistani Terror

November 14, 2024 Saudiptendu Ray, Research Associate, VIF Article

Canada as a country is renowned for its maple forests producing sweet maple syrup, beaver dams built by hard-working beavers, good-looking actors with the name Ryan, the best view of Niagara Falls, and, of course, an unbiased justice system and effic....

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Article , Air India Flight 182 , Montreal-Mirabel International Airport , Canadian Khalistani Terrorist , Babbar Khalsa , Royal Canadian Mounted Police , Canadian Security Intelligence Service , Talwinder Singh Parmar , Inderjit Singh Reyat , Ajaib Singh Bagri , Ripudaman Singh Malik.

COP 29: Climate Finance to Take Centre Stage at the Annual Climate Conference

November 14, 2024 Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF Article

The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP 29) is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. Dubbed as the “finance COP”, this conference will focus on climate finance, with the aim of advancing the implementation of the Paris Agr....

Climate Change

Tags : Article , Conflict , Accountability , Fossil Fuel , resilience , Climate action , Cimate finance , Protection

Trump 2.0: Not a change, a paradigmatic shift

November 14, 2024 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Trump or no Trump, the US economy seems to do what it will anyway. Why? Look at the fundamental strengths of the US as a nation. If Donald Trump’s narrow win shook the United States in 2016, the scale of his victory now has amazed the country in....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US

Tags : Article , Donald Trump , WTO , US market , Joe Bide

The 21st Century: The Century of India and ASEAN - Modi’s Strategic Visit to Lao-PDR

November 14, 2024 Dr Gautam Kumar Jha Article

Modi's two-day visit during the second week of October to attend the 21st India-ASEAN and the 19th East Asia summits in Lao PDR on the invitation of Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone marked India's commitment to forge stronger ties with ASEAN amid an....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Article , India , ASEAN , Singapore , Act East Policy , Brunei , Laos

A New Era for Sri Lanka? The November Parliamentary Election

November 13, 2024 Dr Anchita Borthakur, Research Associate, VIF Article

Introduction On September 21 this year Sri Lanka held its first presidential election after the Aragalaya protests amid significant political and economic challenges, marking a crucial moment in the country’s journey toward economic rec....

Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh

Tags : Article , Sri Lanka , election , IMF , NPP , SJB , Sri Lanka Presidential Election , Aragalaya , Sri Lanka Parliamentary Election , Anura Kumara Dissanayake , Tamil votes

Revisiting Cooperation in South Asia from Vivekananda’s Perspective

November 13, 2024 Aadya Ananta Article

Abstract Western scholars and thinkers have dominated the field of international relations. Be it the study of world affairs or regional affairs, western perspectives have paved the way for their understanding. This paper looks beyond the....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Article , Vedanta , tolerance , Orthodoxy , Non-Western IR , Universal Acceptance

An Analytical Review of India’s Defence Exports

November 12, 2024 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

This work analyses the recent statement of the Defence Minister wherein, on 04 Oct 2024, while speaking at the 7th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM), the Minister stated the Govt is committed to make defence....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Indian defence industry , Defence Exports , RM at 7th AGM of SIDM