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SCO Summit and Afghanistan: Looking for a Regional Solution
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s twelfth Summit held at Beijing in first week of June this year deliberated upon Afghanistan at length. Even though Afghanistan has not been either a member or observer of this group President Karzai has been ....

June 18, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Central Asia , Afghanistan
Why Non-alignment 2.0 does us a Disservice
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The document, prepared by an eminent 8-member group, has attracted both criticism and praise. The latter is mainly for drawing attention to India's innumerable foreign policy challenges and for generating debate thereon. On the negativ....

June 14, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy
The Return of Putin and Indo-Russian Relations
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The Boris Yeltsin era, that is the decade of 1990s, had led to the decline of Russian power not only at the global level but also in its near periphery. The economic dividend which Russia expected due to its accommodation with the West never material....

June 12, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia
US Offer Calls for Finesse
Amb Kanwal Sibal

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s recent visit to India brings to the fore again the question of the depth India should impart to India-US defence ties. Panetta has been explicit about US interest in deepening them. The itinerary that took him....

June 12, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
Implications of US Defence Secretary’s Visit to New Delhi
Arun Sahgal

The two days visit of US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta to India generated considerable interest both among the political circles and strategic community. Major interest was in the new American defence strategy the chief element of which was re ba....

June 11, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Defence , US
President Putin Redux
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Even with the North Atlantic orientation of today’s European policy, we cannot forget that NATO and Europe are not one and the same thing. And I’ve already said that Russia is a country of European culture, not NATO culture.
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June 01, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy
A Good Product To Sell
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The relationship between democracy and international security is frequently debated in international circles. It is also said that more prosperity at the international level is conducive for global security. How true are these propositions, in fact? ....

May 30, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy
The Normal Socialist
Amb Kanwal Sibal

What does Francois Hollande’s victory in the French presidential election mean for India, Europe and the rest of the world? We know very little about him in India. Hollande’s political career has been confined to domestic politics, but without a....

May 28, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Europe
India Needs to Seize the Initiative in Myanmar
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Forthcoming visit of Prime Minister to Myanmar after a gap of 25 years is an historic opportunity to seize the initiative in a country which has been described by many strategic thinkers as the lynchpin of our ‘Look East Policy’. M....

May 26, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Indo-Pacific , Myanmar
VIF-IDSA International Conference on “Emerging Geo-political Trends in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for India-Russia Relations”

A joint seminar on India – Russia relations was organized by the VIF and IDSA on May 14, 2012. Amb. Prabhat Shukla, Jt. Director, VIF, (Former Ambassador to Russia) in his Key Note address emphasized that India and Russia should resort to candid di....

May 24, 2012 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Conferences , Asia , India-Russia Relations , Russia’s foreign policy
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