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Seminar Report: Perspectives on Transforming India-Central Asia Engagement, Prospects and Issues

Central Asia has a been of immense geopolitical significance for centuries, whether it was Tsarist Russia or Soviet Union and now the current world order after the demise of the Soviet Union, Central Asia continues to play an important role in the ....

February 24, 2011 Seminar_57 , International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Seminars , Central Asian Republics , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , Turkmenistan , India-Central Asia Engagement
India doesn't need advice from others in responding to Egypt
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Criticism of India’s perceived reluctance to endorse the democratic urgings surfacing in many Arab countries is misplaced. The Indian media has, of course, covered the upsurge in Egypt very extensively, to the point that outside observers may concl....

February 23, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
US Assistant Secretary of State Andrew J. Shapiro Interacts with VIF Faculty

US Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Andrew J. Shapiro visited VIF on February 11, 2011 for an interaction with senior members of the Foundation. A range of issues, including the strategic dimension of the India-US b....

February 23, 2011 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Conferences , India-US bilateral relations , Andrew J. Shapiro , US Assistant Secretary
President Mededev's Visit
Amb Kanwal Sibal

President Medvedev’s recent visit to India (December 21-22) has contributed to retrieving some of the ground being lost in India-Russia ties. A perception has been growing that the relevance of Russia to India has declined in the context of the c....

February 08, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
Enter The Dragon
Dr Adityanjee

Hu Jintao, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP) recently came visiting the US. For the reasons of protocol he donned a different hat and was feted by the mainstream American media as the President of the Peoples' Republic of Ch....

January 27, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Hu's Visit Shouldn't Worry US
Amb Kanwal Sibal

President Hu’s just concluded US visit has naturally attracted international attention, as the challenger was meeting the champion, as it were. The US is seen as a slowly declining power, and China a rapidly rising one. The dwindling of US power w....

January 25, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
PLA Navy’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile: Challenge to India
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Modernisation of PLA Navy (PLAN) is one of the important planks of China’s revolution of military affairs with indigenous characteristics. The Defence White Papers of China issued regularly after every two years have laid great emphasis on developm....

January 18, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Military Affairs_91
India-China Relations: A Year-end Review
Sujitt Dutta

India-China relations have been going through a rough phase for some time now. In fact, over the past year they have become even more complex than they normally have been over the past five decades as a result of new Chinese diplomatic and military a....

January 11, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Best Wishes - India should build on the gains from the recent P5 visits
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Much has been made of the fact that leaders of all the permanent five member countries of the United Nations security council have visited India in 2010 in quick succession. This degree of bilateral attention to India within a short span of time may ....

January 09, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
On the right track
Amb Kanwal Sibal

President Dmitry Medvedev’s recent visit to India has given fresh lustre to a relationship that had begun to lose its sheen. Indian political and economic circles, as well as the media, have been too obsessed with our developing ties with the US. T....

January 09, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
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