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A Significant Visit from the Land of the ‘Princess of Ayodhya’
Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal Commentary

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in paid a highly significant visit to India on 8-11 July 2018 to cement his ‘New Southern Policy’ of increased focus on India and ASEAN countries. President Moon repeatedly said that his administration’s objec....

July 13, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , South Korean President’s visit , India-South Korea relations
Deterrence Failure or Lasting Peace, the Korean Game’s Up for Grabs
Pinaki Bhattacharya Article

James Clapper, former director of national intelligence of the Barack Obama administration – otherwise a severe critic of the US President Donald J Trump’s various policies 1- recalled in a 19 May 2018 article for the New York Time....

July 11, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Trump-Kim Summit , Denuclearisation of Korea
Is ‘Democratic Quad’ a Viable Construct?
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) members - Australia, India, Japan and the United States (US) - met in June 2018 in Singapore on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) senior officials’ meeting, and later issue....

July 02, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , QUAD , RIMPAC , Strategic Pertnerships
Beginning of a New End in the Korean Peninsula
Dr Teshu Singh Commentary

After almost three and a half months of high-powered diplomacy leading up to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in North Korea, the first meeting between a sitting United States and a North Korean leader took place on 12 June 2018 in Singapore. The mee....

June 28, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , US-North Korea relations , Denuclearisation of North Korea
Nuances of a Skewed Agreement- An Analysis
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

As the dust has settled down on the much hyped meeting between President of the United States (POTUS) Mr. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK), and after the experts have had their say on denouncing the outcome of t....

June 28, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Trump-Kim meeting , De-nuclearisation of Korean Peninsula
Maritime Power through Blue Economy in the Indian context
Commodore Somen Banerjee

Preface At the outset, this monograph has sought to resolve the ambiguities in comprehending the oft-used phrase ‘maritime power’. It has established that constituents are those permanent attributes which make a country easier....

June 21, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Blue Economy , Monograph , Maritime Power
The Trump-Kim Summit: A Mixed Bag
Amb Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The fact that the much talked about Summit meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim happened on June 12 in Singapore is an achievement by itself. The world would have been on edge without it. The short document signed, even though shorn of c....

June 20, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , US-North Korea Summit , Denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula
Paraktan Harapan Wins in Malaysia after Six Decades: The View from India
Asha Sundaramurthy Commentary

The victory of the centre of left wing Paraktan Harapan alliance in Malaysia has been of great interest in Southeast Asia and even beyond, into the Indo-Pacific. Not only because the 57 years reign of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO)-le....

June 07, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Malaysia election , Mahathir Mohammed
Korean Rapprochement - Hope for Resolution of Maritime Disputes?
Commodore Somen Banerjee Commentary

On April 26 Kim Jong-un became the first North Korean Leader to step foot on South Korean soil since the Korean War in the 1950’s. The leaders agreed to actively pursue talks for declaring an official end to the Korean War. This declaration could d....

June 04, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Korean maritime disputes , Korean maritime delimitation
Demilitarising the South China Sea: Concerted Efforts Needed
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Article

Two of the most important topics during last year’s Shangri La Dialogue were ‘Upholding the rules-based regional order’ and demilitarisation of the South China Sea in the shape of a discussion on practical ‘measures to avoid conflict at sea�....

May 30, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , South China Sea , Shangri La Dialogue
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