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Maritime Transport has the Potential to Reinvigorate Indian Economy

… maritime transport can play a major role not only in creating mass jobs but also in enhancing the technical thresholds … investment in port infrastructure and shipbuilding sectors can absorb unskilled labour in large numbers … its manifestati....

August 21, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indian Economy , Indian Ocean , Economics of shipping industry , Ship and port building , Maritime Transport

Emerging Structure of Maritime Security in the Bay of Bengal

.... Traditionally, security at sea has been theorised and interpreted rooted in traditional realist or liberalist theories. In the realist interpretation, the seas are the plains on which superpower, or regional power rivalry, takes place, whereas r....

May 11, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Bay of Bengal , BIMSTEC , Maritime Security , Indian Ocean , SAARC

‘Quad Plus’ Dialogue – Tokyo

A four-member team from the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) comprising Director, Dr. Arvind Gupta, Lt. Gen. Ravi Sawhney, Ambassador Anil Wadhwa and Dr. Harinder Sekhon participated in the Quad Plus Dialogue in Tokyo from March 4 to 6, 201....

March 27, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Seminars , Pakistan , ASEAN , Quad Plus , South China Sea , Afghanistan , Indian Ocean , Tokyo

Visit of Delegation from the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), UK

An eighteen-member delegation from the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), led by Major General Simon Leslie Peters, visited the VIF on 08 Jun, 2016 for an interaction that focused, among other things, on India’s foreign policy imperatives ami....

June 17, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Indian Ocean , Royal College of Defence Studies , Unsettled border

China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Old String with New Pearls?

Commodore Gopal Suri

China and the Indian Ocean Region China has been incessantly increasing its footprint in the Indian Ocean in the past decade by undertaking port infrastructure projects, managing and running ports, gaining port access for naval platforms, a....

May 03, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Indian Ocean , Maritime Silk Road

Quad-Plus Dialogue

The Vivekananda International Foundation hosted the third Quad Plus Dialogue at Jaipur from February 14 to 16, 2016. This initiative was started in 2013, when security and strategic affairs experts from four major think tanks—the Heritage Foundatio....

March 04, 2016 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Conferences , Indian Ocean , Quad-Plus Dialogue , Cyber Challenge , Maritime Governance , Pacific Ocean

Uniting through Oceans

Sarosh Bana

Bolstered by its robust surface, undersea and aerial capabilities, the Indian Navy staged a spectacular maritime pageant off the eastern seaboard, as it hosted its International Fleet Review (IFR) 2016 earlier this month. As many as 50 countries rang....

February 18, 2016 Defence , Military Affairs , Indian Ocean , Indian Navy , Eastern Naval Command , Visakhapatnam

Case for a Regional Maritime Security Construct for the Indo Pacific

Commodore Gopal Suri

The Indian Ocean has been the hub of major economic activity and global realpolitik since the end of the Second World War. It has assumed greater importance since the penultimate decade of the last century and will continue to remain so in the....

January 29, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , China , Maritime Security , Indian Ocean , South East Asia

India-Sri Lanka Cooperation in Joint Sea Exploration

(VIF-Pathfinder joint paper)

Introduction: India and Sri Lanka are strategically located at a crossroads within the Indian Ocean; a body of water 68.5 million sq. km in extent and the third largest of the world’s oceans, after the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Their ....

November 26, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , India-Sri Lanka , Joint Sea Exploration , Indian Ocean

Vimarsha: National Security Challenges of the Next Decade - A talk by General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Indian Army & Chairman COS

On 30 Jul 2015, General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Indian Army & Chairman Chiefs of Staff, delivered an incisive talk, titled as ‘National Security Challenges of the Next Decade’, to a large audience, comprising academia, intelligentsia, soldi....

August 07, 2015 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , China , J&K , ISIS , Indian Ocean , National Security Challenges , Pakistan’s ISI , Northeast , Armed Forces Special Powers Act