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India Impacted by the Great Geopolitical Churn
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Any attempt towards predicting the emerging world order is more likely to be incorrect. The geopolitical churn is so immense and future so fundamentally incomprehensible that it will be well served to desist from dire prognostications. The era is cau....

March 15, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , US , China , Russia , economy , sanctions , Ukraine , Oil , G20 , Covid , defence budgets
Neighborhood News Digest – 06 March 2023

Afghanistan
Iran opens trade center, permanent exhibition in Kabul – Tehran Times
Iran’s trade center and permanent exhibition of Iranian products was inaugurated in Kabul on Sunday, the Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan announc....

March 06, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , US , ASEAN , economy , Iran , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Nepal politics , Bhutan , India-Nepal , election , Security , Taliban , Ukraine , Imran Khan , G20 , IMF , UN , Pakistan Economy , Germany , women rights , TTP , counterterrorism , Doha Agreement , Bhutan politics , Bhutan India , US-Myanmar , local elections , Bangladesh-India , Rupee and Taka , Cox's Bazar
War and peace in Ukraine one year on
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Russia, Ukraine and NATO are locked into inflexible positions that do not permit compromise sans loss of face. Four days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden undertook an arduous journey to ....

February 24, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , War , Ukraine , Russian invasion
One year of Russia’s war on Ukraine: A war of attrition, with no exit options in sight
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

No one has a clear definition of victory or end goals. The Western bloc is enthusiastically pursuing sanctions against Russia for the moment but countries like India have wisely chosen to prioritise its own economic needs The Russia-Ukraine war is....

February 24, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , Politics , Ukraine , World , Vladimir Putin , Russia-Ukraine War , Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Monthly Compilation of Views of VIF Expert Groups: January 2023
Naval Jagota

Vivekananda International Foundation commenced 2023 with renewed vigour in which seven expert groups met and two of which had interactions with ambassadors from Singapore and Italy. The areas of interest were China, Iran, US, Pakistan, Indo-Pacific, ....

February 17, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Indo-Pacific , Singapore , Ukraine , India and the World , Zero-Covid policy , Developments in Iran , Global Climate Change , Pakistan in Peril , Indo-Italian Relations
Overview of Geopolitics in 2022 and Looking at 2023
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The Year 2022 saw the organizing principles of the international system become more fragmented even with facade of multilateral summitry. Despite US unipolar moment receding, China’s ascendancy has yet to translate into US decline. With absence of ....

January 10, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , China , Russia , War , Xi Jinping , trade , Ukraine , Joe Bidden , Biden , Abe , multipolarity , Geo economics
Lessons of Ukraine War, and Applicability on India
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Since it began, the Russia-Ukraine has thrown up an overabundance of geopolitical, geo-economic and geostrategic lessons. It is humbling to note that the lessons of 2021 were in total variance with those of 2022. India has learnt significant geostra....

January 03, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , India , Russia , War , Peace , Ukraine , Lessons , strategic ambiguity , economic interdependence
Indo-Russian Relations in the Changing Geopolitical Environment
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Geopolitical Environment
India-Russia relations have stood the test of time for several decades. But they are under considerable pressure now due to the ongoing multi-dimensional global crisis, which has impacted the two countries diff....

December 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Commentary , Russia , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Economic , Ukraine , military , Geopolitical environment
Russia’s Ukraine War and the Concept of Balance of Power since Congress of Vienna
Abhishek Das Article

Prologue
From Congress of Vienna to the beginning of the First World War; Europe survived for nearly a century without a major war like the one it saw ended with the Battle of Waterloo or the one it would see starting in 1914. During this....

December 07, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , NATO , Ukraine , Cold War , Crimea , balance of power , Great Wars
China: Daily Scan, November 16, 2022

China's ex-senior provincial legislator prosecuted: Xinhuanet
November 15, 2022
A public prosecution has been initiated against Sun Guoxiang, a former senior legislator of northeast China's Liaoning Province, over suspected brib....

November 16, 2022 Ukraine , COVID-19 , WTO , G20 summit , China Daily Digest , TikTok , Guangzhou , Bali
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