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Will DaMo help NaMo and Xi at Mahabalipuram?

It is strategic civilisational diplomacy at its symbolic best. Narendra Modi found that his second informal summit with Xi Jinping at Mahabalipuram in 2019 had been fixed 1,500 years ago by a prince of the Pallava dynasty, which ruled Mahabalipuram f....

October 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Narendra Modi , India China Relations , Modi Xi summit

Chinese Investments in Nepal in the Context of BRI

Prof Hari Bansh Jha Article

Background

All countries, big or small, promote investment as it plays a crucial role in capital formation and in increasing production, generating employment opportunities and boosting exports. Foreign investment is required when the dom....

October 11, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Article , BRI in Nepal , Nepal’s China policy , Nepal’s economic concerns

Indic Statecraft and Indo-Pacific

Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

India’s cartographic delimitation of Indo-Pacific broadly encompasses sea space from the western Pacific Ocean through Southeast Asia to the western Indian Ocean along the east coast of Africa. In this sea space it pursues an ‘eclectic blend’ o....

October 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Indo-Pacific , Indian concept of Mandala , Mandala principles on foreign policy , India foreign policy

पाकिस्तान: आतंकवादी हिंसा की पुनरावृत्ति

Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF Article

आतंकवादी और अलगाववादी धीरे-धीरे एक बार फिर पाकिस्तान में सिर उठा रहे हैं। जर्ब-ए-अज्ब और रद्द-उल....

October 11, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , पाकिस्तान , आतंकवादी , अलगाववादी , आतंकवाद की समस्या , बलूचिस्तान , अफगानिस्तान

Building Indigenous Missile Capability - An Imperative

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

When the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) was sanctioned way back in 1982-83, Agni Missile was not even a part of the four missile Projects in its development agenda which included the Prithvi Short Range Surface-to-Surface Mis....

October 10, 2019 Technological and Scientific Studies , Article , Building indigenous missile capability , Inescapability of different types of missiles , Range of air threats

Global Norms for Stable Cyber Space: How Effective without Secure Supply Chain and Attribution to Attackers?

Dr Kamlesh Bajaj Article

The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyber Space (GCSC), set up by The Hague Center for Strategic Studies and East-West Institute (EWI) in March 2017, in the Munich Security Conference will shortly release its report on norms of responsible stat....

October 09, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Rising cyber threats , Securing cyber space , Need for international technical accord

Can the Second Xi-Modi Summit Tackle the Really Difficult Issues

Jayadeva Ranade Article

In just around a fortnight in mid-October, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in India for his second ‘informal’ meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the ancient coastal town of Mamallapuram near Chennai. Xi Jinpin....

October 04, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Upcoming Indo-China informal summit , President Xi Jinping’s India visit

मोदी और इमरान खान के विरोधाभासी नज़रिये

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा में 27 सितंबर, 2019 को प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी और पाकिस्तान के प्रधानमंत�....

October 04, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , पाकिस्तान , प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी , मोदी , इमरान खान , संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा , कश्मीर , पाकिस्तान की कश्मीर फरियाद

Saudi Arabia Drone Attack: Sign of Changing Character of Hybrid War

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.) Article

Introduction

The Houthi militants carried out an audacious "large-scale" attack with 10 drones targeting Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais.¹ Even in the past Houthi rebels had attacked Saudi Arabia but the preci....

October 01, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Drones as new weapons , Dangers of drone attack , Drones a threat to global stability

The Attack on Saudi Oil: What Next?

Amb K P Fabian Article

The world learnt with tremendous shock, surprise, and a degree of distress about the attack on Saudi oil facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais, bringing down the Saudi oil giant Aramco’s oil production by 5.7 million barrels a day. The attack occurred o....

September 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Attack on Saudi oil , oil supply crisis , Iran-Houthi-Saudi tangle