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Prof Rajaram Panda
Prof. Rajaram Panda is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Earlier, he was Senior Fellow, IDSA, ICCR Chair Professor at Reitaku University, and Lok Sabha Research Fellow, Parliament of India. He is also Member of the Governing Council, Indian Council of World Affairs, and the Centre for Security and Strategic Studies, both in New Delhi. He had also long stints at the Japan Foundation New Delhi

Prof. Rajaram Panda is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Earlier, he was Senior Fellow, IDSA, ICCR Chair Professor at Reitaku University, and Lok Sabha Research Fellow, Parliament of India. He is also Member of the Governing Council, Indian Council of World Affairs, and the Centre for Security and Strategic Studies, both in New Delhi. He had also long stints at the Japan Foundation New Delhi

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Japan sets up Military Base in Ishigaki Island to Deter China
March 24, 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
Like many Asian nations, Japan that shares a historically ugly phase of relationship with China, now faces the heat from a muscular China, despite having a robust relationship in the economic domain. China’s ambitions to attain a great power status...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Senkaku Islands, SIPRI, China threat, Ishigaki Island, collective self defence, Coast Guard intrusions, End of Pacifism in Japan
AUKUS’s Nuclear Submarine Pact: Implications
March 20, 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
Two strategic groupings – the Quad and AUKUS – are in the news that has caught world’s attention. While the Quad has been for been in existence for some time now, AUKUS is a recent construct. When in September 2021, Australia, the UK and the US...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, South China Sea, Taiwan, Strategic competition, AUKUS, defence spending, Nuclear submarine deal, USS Virginia
Can India Play any Role for Peace in the Korean Peninsula?
March 07, 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
At a time when the Ukraine crisis has hogged international limelight impacting trade of energy, food and supply chain disruptions and many related worrying fallouts, the world seems to have drifted into a new era of Cold War with the US, West and NAT...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Nuclear Weapons, missile firings, Extended deterrence, 1 March Movement, Table-Top Exercise, provocations
US-Philippines Base Deal aimed to Check China
February 17, 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
Introduction The Philippines is on a diplomatic overdrive. There seems to be cracks in the ASEAN unity. The 10-member bloc is not in the same page on a host of issues. Cambodia is suspected to have succumbed to the Chinese temptation of e...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, US, China, Article, ASEAN, military base, SDF, Spratly Islands, Palawan, medium-range missiles, VFA, EDCA, Marcos Jr.
Challenge before Indonesia as ASEAN Chair to Deal with Myanmar Issue
February 09, 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
Indonesia assumed the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after in 2023 and hosted its first major meeting of the group’s Foreign Ministers at the ASEAN Secretariat on 3 February 2023 on a slew of issues affecting the...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies, Myanmar, Article, ASEAN, Tatmadaw, military Junta, strategic relevance, Six-Point Consensus, Tourism conference
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