Articles

Values for Reforming Multilateralism and Creating a New World Order

In the past few years, the international system has increasingly displayed tendencies of being subordinate to narrow national interests. The COVID pandemic revealed the limits of cooperation when countries turned inwards to cope with the deadly virus....

April 10, 2023 Vimarsh , International Relations and Diplomacy , Ukraine , international terrorism , IMF , Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam , Multilateralism , New World Order , Political Economy

Radicalization in India- An Exploration

Bharat has been at the receiving end of radicalisation and Islamic terrorism for over three decades. In the study of terrorism/counter-terrorism, the terms radicalisation, religious extremism, and terrorism are frequently used interchangeably. To exp....

January 09, 2023 Terrorism , Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Book Discussions , Counter-terrorism , radicalization , international terrorism , South-East Asia , Harkat network

VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism, 16-31 August 2021

DEFENCE

Webinar between India & Malaysia on ‘Indian Defence Industry Global Outreach for Collaborative Partnership’.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh to launch Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0.
Indian Na....

September 15, 2021 Defense, National Security and Terrorism , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Defence , Africa , international terrorism , Islamic extremism , Left-wing extremism , Somalia , Domestic Terrorism , Cyber

Islamic State: A Game Changer International Terrorism a talk by Mayank Sharma

The Islamic State (hereafter IS)/Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)/Daesh is a transnational terrorist organisation which is based on the ideology of fundamentalism and Salafism teachings of Islam towards the creation and establishment of the Cal....

March 18, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Interaction , Islamic State , ISIS , international terrorism , Mayank Sharma

Re-emergence of Islamic State’s Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

On Saturday, April 27, 2019, Islamic State’s (IS) central media outlet, Al-Furqan, released an 18-minute propaganda video featuring its ‘underground’ leader and self-proclaimed ‘Caliph Ibrahim’, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.¹ It was the....

May 09, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Islamic State Caliphate , Al-Baghdadi’s video , international terrorism