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Kishida in Cambodia: Seeking Convergences of interests to counter China

Cambodia as the ASEAN Chair has been attracting attention of some important countries such as the US and Japan, both of which have shown increased willingness to work together with Cambodia in the interest of regional peace and stability. This new ou....

April 01, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , ASEAN , PLA , ASEAN Centrality , FTA , Fumio Kishida , Hun Sen , Ream Naval Base , Mekong region

Do We Need an International Day for Hinduphobia?

Rohith Krishna Article

Introduction

The world wouldn’t have forgotten the unfortunate Christchurch Mosque shootings in New Zealand, which killed around 50 people and was executed by a single gunman named Brenton Tarrant on Friday, 15th March 2019. To cement thi....

March 31, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Islamophobia , Hinduphobia , Colonial Consciousness

A Review of Kashmir Files

Anmol Mahajan Article

There is a perception in India that when an average Indian goes to watch a movie s/he wants to escape from the realities of life and enjoy a simple story that generally has a happy ending and is full of comedy, action and thrills etc. To an extent t....

March 30, 2022 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Kashmir , genocide , Terror , Pandits

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

Fumio Kishida’s Visit to India: Major Takeaways

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida paid a two-day official visit to India on 19-20 March 2022 for the annual India-Japan Annual Summit with his Indian counterpart Narendra Damodardas Modi. This was Kishida’s first visit to India as Prime Min....

March 29, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Maruti Suzuki , CEPA , Fumio Kishida , ODA , Ukraine Crisis , shinkansen , DMIC , ICT

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

Russia-Ukraine War: A Game of Vain Military Venture?

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

Military Theories Unheeded

Traditionally, over the centuries, the Russians have been the pioneers of original military strategic thinking. Even the world’s leading military thinkers, mainly the Prussians/Germans and British, have been ....

March 28, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Russia-Ukraine War , obdurate expansionism , the blunder of Ukraine War , killing fields of Ukraine , bleeding Ukraine for selfish agenda , wanton destruction

An Analysis of ASEAN’s Special Envoy Visit to Myanmar

Dr Cchavi Vasisht Article

As Cambodia takes over as the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2022, the visit of Cambodia’s Foreign Minister, Prak Sokhonn as ASEAN’s Special Envoy to Myanmar marks an important development in the current crisis-rid....

March 28, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , ASEAN , refugees , UN , Military Coup , Human Rights Watch , Whats happening in Myanmar