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Japan’s Engagement with ASEAN: Security Dimension- Part II
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

From the two successive visits of Kamikawa and Kishida to the ASEAN region in quick time, it transpires that Japan now accords extra importance to the region as strategic environment has turned volatile. Japan’s economic engagement with the countri....

November 21, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , South China Sea , Maritime Security , SDF , international politics and diplomacy , RAA , OSA , Japan’s pacifism , disaster management
Neighborhood News Digest – 28 August 2023

Afghanistan
Women Banned From Visiting Band-e-Amir National Park – Tolo News
Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, the acting Minister of Virtue and Vice, asked all religious clerics and security agencies to forbid women from visiting Ba....

August 28, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Nepal , Bhutan , Taliban , Imran Khan , G20 , IMF , Dengue , SDF , women rights , TTP , India-Maldives , MCC , Hydroelectric Project , India-Myanmar , UNICEF , Tomatoes , Public outrage , Favara , Turtles , Manipur Refugees
NATO’s Outreach into the Indo-Pacific – Part I
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction
In the great power contestation with the United States and China as the main two protagonists with satellite powers either endorsing stance or outright standing behind either of the two has turned global politics upside down.....

July 19, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , NATO , Taiwan Strait , SDF , Pacifist Constitution , Shangri-La security summit , ITPP
US-Philippines Base Deal aimed to Check China
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction
The Philippines is on a diplomatic overdrive. There seems to be cracks in the ASEAN unity. The 10-member bloc is not in the same page on a host of issues. Cambodia is suspected to have succumbed to the Chinese temptation of e....

February 17, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Article , ASEAN , military base , SDF , Spratly Islands , Palawan , medium-range missiles , VFA , EDCA , Marcos Jr.
VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism, 16-31 July 2022

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Fresh Challenges for Kishida as Upper House Elections are held on 10 July
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

With less than a year in office, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida now confronts domestic political challenge when the country’s Upper House goes to the polls on 10 July in which his ruling coalition government expects to get a majority, which....

July 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Women empowerment , SDF , LDP , Article 9 , Komeito , Fumio Kishida , Upper House , declining birth rate , collective self-defence , Japan-US alliance
Japan and Australia ink Defence Pact with Eye on China
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Though the QUAD and AUKUS had received wide media attention in India, with each analysis applauding the merit of these initiatives, another significant development that took place in the past week has somewhat received less attention. The import of t....

January 10, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , QUAD , South China Sea , Taiwan , Uyghur , UNCLOS , SDF , Scott Morrison , Senkaku , Fumio Kishida , AUKUS , defence pact
A Perspective on the Senkaku Islands Dispute
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands comprising five uninhabited islands and three rocks totalling seven square kilometres in the East China Sea is often understated as a simple sovereignty dispute or a resource conflict. It may, in fact, be ....

September 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Southwestern Wall Defense , Uotsuri Island , ADIZ , SDF , PAFMM , UNECAFE , Okinawa Trough , Bilateral Fisheries Agreement , F35 , aircraft carrier
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