Articles

Bangladesh-India Relations and the New Horizons of Possibilities

On the 21st of June, 2022, the Vivekananda International Foundation organized a talk on ‘Bangladesh-India Relations and the New Horizons of Possibilities’. Ambassador Shahidul Haque, former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, delivered the talk that....

July 04, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Conferences , Geopolitics , Foreign Secretary , Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna

China’s Future Road to Afghanistan

Soumya Awasthi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The lightning speed with which the Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, has enthralled the experts around the globe.¹ There are lot of speculations that are taking place, on what went wrong and how even after twenty years of r....

September 03, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , China , Article , Pakistan , Terrorism , CPEC , Taliban , Geopolitics , US-China rivalry , CCWAEC

Central Asia: Three Decades of Developments

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Central Asia, located between the East and the West has always been been at the centre of power struggle between major powers such as Russia, China, US and West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leaders of these independent republics, adop....

March 17, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , India , China , Russia , SCO , INSTC , Chabahar Port , Central Asia , Geopolitics , EAEU , CSTO , Podcast , three decades of collapse of Soviet Union

Dissecting Macro Focus-areas for India this Decade - World Order, Domestic Economy & Technology

Praveen Menon Article

With the age-old Ram Mandir issue resolved Indian civilization took a step ahead in 2020 even when global and Indian economy took several steps back due to pandemic. A great historic wrong has been corrected which was imposed on our ancestors and the....

August 13, 2020 Economic Studies , Article , China , agriculture , Economics , technology , USA , Indian Economy , Soft Power , Urbanization , Civilization , BRI , military , Geopolitics , FDI , innovation , Financial system , Banking sector , World Order , World War I , World War II , Bretton woods , History lessons , Research , Economic Growth , Farmers , Domestic Economy

This is the way World Ends : How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2018, United States, 336 pp, ISBN: 9781250160461, price-$29.99 (2,257.17 Rs)

Heena Samant, Research Assistant, VIF

We all have heard of climate change and its impact now and of future time and again. So much so, that it has now become the new normal. But it doesn’t really get the mind space that it needs, for various reasons. Then comes a book like Jeff Nesbit....

May 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Book Reviews , Geopolitics , Impacts of climate change , Earth’s ecosystem

Mike Pompeo’s Visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: What to Expect?

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Senior Research Associate , VIF Article

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from February 1-4, 2020. He will be chairing a meeting of the ‘C5+1 forum’ at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Earlier, the visit was scheduled to take place in earl....

January 30, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , China , Russia , Central Asia , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , USA , Geopolitics , EAEU

Geopolitics of Trans–Caspian Gas Pipeline

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Senior Research Associate , VIF Article

Introduction

Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) is designed to export natural gas from resource-rich Turkmenistan and to a certain amount from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan by putting an underwater pipeline in the Caspian seabed. From Baku, Aze....

January 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , Russia , Iran , European Union , Turkmenistan , Azerbaijan , Caspian Sea , Natural Gas , Pipeline , Geopolitics