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Mike Pompeo’s Visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: What to Expect?
Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from February 1-4, 2020. He will be chairing a meeting of the ‘C5+1 forum’ at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Earlier, the visit was scheduled to take place in earl

January 30, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Central Asia, Article, China, Russia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, USA, Geopolitics, EAEU
Ukranian Tragedy - The Bigger Question
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Far Beyond ‘Just a Human Error’
This article argues that that the downing of the Ukrainian civil airliner by an Iranian missile on 08 Jan 2020 that took 176 innocent lives1 is an incident that goes far beyond than ‘just

January 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Quds Force, IRGC, missile strike, Ukrainian aircraft, human error, fratricide
Libya – the Unfortunate Domain of International Competition: Berlin and Beyond
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Soon it will be almost a decade of destruction in Libya which in many ways could be the worst extension of the four decades of Gaddafi’s autocratic rule. On February 17, 2011 ecstatic Libyans had jubilantly marched their revolution for a ‘New Lib

January 27, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, General Haftar, Tripoli, Tobruk, GNA, UNSMIL, Erdogan
Constitutional Changes in Russia! What is Cooking?
Rajesh Soami

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his entire government resigned on January 15th after a televised speech by President Putin to the federal assembly wherein he proposed sweeping changes to the constitution. These changes will modify the equation of

January 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Commentary, democracy, Putin, Medvedev, Yeltsin
Key Developments in Africa in 2019
Dr Neha Sinha

The year 2019 bore witness to multiple developments which dotted the continent and may lead to not only an impact in the immediate times but also have far-reaching impact on the society and polity of African nations.

Peaceful Transition of Po

January 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Africa, Article, India, Africa, Terrorism, election, Cooperation, Visits, Power
सुलेमानी की हत्या: आगे क्या?
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

चूंकि कासिम सुलेमानी गुप्त तरीके से काम करने के लिए बनाई गई रणनीतिक सेना के कमांडर होने के नाते

January 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Hindi, Article, ईरान, सुलेमानी, अमेरिका, आईएसआईएस
Geopolitics of Trans–Caspian Gas Pipeline
Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF

Introduction
Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) is designed to export natural gas from resource-rich Turkmenistan and to a certain amount from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan by putting an underwater pipeline in the Caspian seabed. From Baku, Aze

January 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Central Asia, Article, Russia, Iran, European Union, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea, Natural Gas, Pipeline, Geopolitics
Review of Developments in China in 2019
Dr Teshu Singh

In 2012, Xi Jinping along with other members of the standing committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yushan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli visited an exhibition titled ‘The Road to Renewa

January 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, US-China Trade War, Second Belt and Road Forum, 70th Anniversary, Foreign Investment Law, Hong Kong Protest, Chennai Connect
Taiwan Elections 2020: Landslide Victory for Tsai Ing-wen
Dr Teshu Singh

In the just concluded 15th Presidential Election in Taiwan, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Tsai Ing-wen has swept the polls with 8, 170, 231 votes (57.1 per cent). She secured the highest number of votes for any candidate since Taiwan

January 17, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan Elections 2020, One Country Two Systems, Cross-Strait, India-Taiwan
Analysing Iran’s Counter Strikes
Dr Hirak Jyoti Das

Iran on 8 January 2020 launched 22 surface-to-surface missiles at two US military bases in Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and one facility in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.1 The operation called, “Shahid Soleimani” has been

January 17, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, IRGC, Operation Shahid Soleimani, Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), Kataeb Hezbollah, War Powers Resolution
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