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Commentary: Ethiopia under State of Emergency - Prospects to Strengthen India-Ethiopia Ties
Dr Neha Sinha Commentary

Background Hailemariam Desalegn submitted his resignation as the Prime Minister of Ethiopia following years of unrest and crises in the country. His sudden withdrawal from the post of the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Ethiop....

March 19, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Commentary , Ethiopia emergency , Ethiopia unrest , Ethiopia , Significance of India
Commentary: Pre-eminent Issues of Governance in Arunachal Pradesh
Gautam Sen Commentary

Arunachal Pradesh (AP) is the 29th state of India, with a large area of 14 lakh sq. km. and population of only 14 lakh, placing it in 15th and 27th position, respectively on a national basis. However, the geopolitical significance of the p....

March 14, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Arunachal Pradesh economy , AP internal security , AP inter-tribe trust
Commentary: Kazakhstan Concludes UNSC Presidency
Dr Rashmini Koparkar Commentary

Kazakhstan has recently concluded the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for one month. It had assumed the Non-Permanent Membership (NPM) of the UNSC in 2017 for the tenure of two years. As a matter of fact, Kazakhstan is the fi....

March 13, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Commentary , Kazakhstan , UNSC , Non-Permanent Membership , Security Council
Commentary: Sri Lanka-Pakistan Relations: Visit of Gen. Bajwa
Akash Sahu Commentary

Pakistan has been traditionally working on enhancing mutual cooperation and strengthening of bilateral relationship, especially focusing on defense ties, with Sri Lanka. On more than one occasion, Sri Lanka has expressed gratitude for Pakistan’s he....

March 09, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , Commentary , Pakistan-Sri Lanka relationship , Pakistan Army Chief’s visit to Sri Lanka
Commentary: China and Philippines Rapprochement: Implications for India
Asha Sundaramurthy Commentary

With the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Philippines conducting the second Bilateral Consultation Meeting on the South China Sea, there’s been a range of views on what this could mean for regional stability in the Indo-Pacific. While the USA....

March 06, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Quad Plus , South China Sea , Philippines-China
Commentary: Quad Plus - Time for New Stakeholders
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

China’s rapid march westward through the Indo-Pacific region appears to be running into rough weather. Australia, India, Japan and the United States, the members of the ‘Quad’, an ‘association of like-minded nations’, have established a Qua....

March 05, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Indo-Pacific , Quad Plus , China’s assertiveness
Commentary: Pakistan - Significance of Pashtun Protests
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF Commentary

Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has seen many dharnas and protests in the last few years. However, perhaps for the first time it was witness to a 10-day sit-in (01-10 February 2018) by about 5000 Pashtuns largely from the Federally Administered Tribal....

March 05, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Energy Security , Commentary , Islamabad protests , Pashtun’s extra-judicial killing , FATA , Pashtun , Pashtun Protests
Commentary: Strengthening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between India and Vietnam
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

Within a short period of less than two months there would have been two high level political leaders from Vietnam visiting India. Last month Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was in New Delhi as part of the India-ASEAN Commemorative Summit as also to w....

March 01, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , India-Vietnam strategic ties , President Quang’s visit
Commentary: Mizoram Contends with Refugee Influx from Myanmar
Gautam Sen Commentary

The Mizoram Government has recently raised an alert on migration of refugees to the state from Myanmar. The State Government was quite complacent on inflow of refugees till early October last year, particularly in its belief that the Rohingyas of Rak....

March 01, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Myanmarese Buddhist migration , Buddhist refugees in Mizoram , Refugee Influx , Myanmar , Mizoram
Commentary: Bangladesh - The Khaleda Zia Verdict and its Political Implications
Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji Commentary

In a judicial verdict of unprecedented political import, on February 8, 2018, a Special Court in Bangladesh sentenced the former Prime Minister and leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Begum Khaleda Zia, to a five-year jail term, in a case o....

March 01, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , Khaleda Zia’s jail term , Bangladesh elections , Zia Verdict
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