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Impact of Russia-Ukraine crisis on the Baltic States
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The Russia’s “special military operation” of Ukraine has created global reverberations on a scale not seen since 9/11 and re-set global politics. The transformational impact of this on geopolitics, global governance, and the global economy has ....

April 20, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , EU , defence spending , Finland , Denmark , NATO membership , security dynamics , Putin’s strong-arm tactics , global politics
Joint Report : Impact of Ukraine War on Various Regions/ International Concerns
VIF Young Scholars Team Article

The VIF Young Scholars Forum discussed ‘Impact of Ukraine War on Various Regions/ International Concerns’ in their weekly meeting on 08 April 2022. Scholars raised ramifications and responses to the Ukraine War as pertaining to their assigned fie....

April 18, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , US , Indo-Pacific , Central Asia , Climate Change , Africa , Terrorism , West Asia , South Asia , Inflation , Cyber , Food Crisis , Ukraine War
Strategic Discussion | Review of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The VIF organized a Strategic Discussion on the Review of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on 25 March 2022 via hybrid-mode, with some participants joining in via web conferencing while the others attended the discussion physically at the VIF. The discuss....

April 13, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Conferences , Russia , NATO , NATO & Ukraine , Eastern Europe
रूस-यूक्रेन युद्ध: व्यर्थ का सैन्य उपक्रम का खेल?
Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

सैन्य सिद्धांतों की जानबूझकर अवहेलना
रूसी लोग परंपरागत रूप से,सदियों से, मूल सैन्य रणनीति�....

April 08, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , रूस-यूक्रेन युद्ध , हठी विस्तारवाद , यूक्रेन युद्ध की भयंकर भूलें , यूक्रेन की हत्यारी भूमि , स्वार्थी एजेंडे के लिए लहूलुहान यूक्रेन , प्रचंड विनाश
Strategic Discussion | Reviewing the Ukraine Crisis

Well over fifteen days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the VIF strategic discussions group convened on 15 March 2022 to review the ongoing developments and to deliberate on the future trajectories of the evolving geopolitical situation. The dis....

April 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Conferences , Central Asia , Ukraine , Chinese involvement
Ukraine Crisis: Towards a New World Order
Brig Dinesh Mathur (Retd.) Article

The international order that existed after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War heralded the emergence of a unipolar world with the operation of the Western Alliance sustained largely by the US (and Canada) military power an....

April 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , Europe , NATO , Ukraine , Cold War , World Order , Crimea
Impact of Western Sanctions on Russia: Unintended Ramifications
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The fog of war isn’t just affecting the military aspects of the Ukraine war but going beyond to fundamentally alter an international system that was already turbulent. In this context, the gamut of western economic sanctions on Russia are going bey....

April 02, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , US , China , Russia , Indo-Pacific , JCPOA , economic sanctions , Ukraine , Covid , Yuan , Food Crisis
Russo-Ukraine War 2022: Sifting the Maze of Russian Political Policy and Military Strategy
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The best teacher of war is war itself! With a month behind us of the Russo-Ukraine war, it is imperative to rationalise and focus on the war itself, without referral to logic behind the war, the global geopolitics and weaponisation of economics and g....

March 30, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , US , Russia , Ukraine , Crimea , Military Strategy , Donetsk , Luhansk , Mariupol , Azove Battalion , Kherson , political policy
Ukraine crisis: The war that is changing relations, rules
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Having pushed Ukraine into war, the US does not know how to save it. Having started it, Russia does not know where to end it. Having been pushed into the war, Ukraine does not know how to come out of it. It accuses its adversary Russia saying it is a....

March 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , NATO , Ukraine , UN Security Council , UAE
Ukraine: As history returns to haunt the world
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

In the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that with the liberal democracy and the free market economy of the West finally emerging as a one-size-fits-all model for all nations, all conflicts that were the source of history had ended. That becam....

March 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Globalisation , NATO , Ukraine , America , Vladimir Putin
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