Articles

West Asia and the Case of Measured and Controlled Escalation: A Trend in Future Warfare

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On the night of 13/14 April 2024 Iran launched an unprecedented 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and 120-130 ballistic missiles against Israel. Iran stated that bombardment was in response to the 01 April 2024 air strike on the Iranian consulate buildi....

April 29, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Iran , Air defence , Nuclear Weapons , Ballistic Missile , Iron Dome , Netanyahu , Drones , cruise missile , Future Warfare

Neighborhood News Digest – 17 March 2023

Afghanistan

Taliban's policies on women affecting Afghanistan's relations: Ex-minister – Business Standard

Taliban's policy on women's education and work will impact negatively Afghanistan's relations with the international com....

March 17, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , Nepal , Iran , Afghanistan , Nuclear Weapons , Bhutan , Security , MEA , Taliban , Imran Khan , Media , Ambassador , IMF , UN , Pakistan Economy , women rights , Vice President , India-Bangladesh , Rohingyas , Bhutan Economy , India-Sri Lanka , Russia-Bangladesh , Presidency elections , Amu Darya , Chinese rocket , Foreign Exchange Reserves

Can India Play any Role for Peace in the Korean Peninsula?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

At a time when the Ukraine crisis has hogged international limelight impacting trade of energy, food and supply chain disruptions and many related worrying fallouts, the world seems to have drifted into a new era of Cold War with the US, West and NAT....

March 07, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Nuclear Weapons , missile firings , Extended deterrence , 1 March Movement , Table-Top Exercise , provocations

India Should Mobilise World Opinion for Ending the War

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

On the first anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, the world is staring at a deeply unsettling, uncertain future. The political, security and economic environment has deteriorated to such an extent that there is open talk about among people about t....

February 23, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , India , China , Russia , Nuclear Weapons , Japan , PM Modi , NATO , G20 , Biden , Wang Yi , ending war

Nuclear Weapons for South Korea: Implications

Prof Rajaram Panda Commentary

A concerning trend is unfolding in the Korean Peninsula and larger East Asia wherein fresh talks in South Korea of revisiting the nuclear options are being openly articulated. This is precisely being triggered by North Korea’s relentless surge in n....

January 19, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear Weapons , International sanctions , summit diplomacy , Extended deterrence , 1953 armistice , disarmament talks , Gallup opinion survey

Known and Unknown Facts about North Korea: Is Kim Jong-un still alive?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction

One of the most isolated countries in contemporary world, North Korea is never short of news and hogs the limelight in international media outlets. Whether it is its withdrawal from the 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty ....

April 29, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , China , Nuclear Weapons , Missiles , Kim Jong-un , succession , military , NPT , Coronavirus , Kim yo-jong , scenarios , regime instability , President Donald Trump , power transition , instability , regime collapse , dynasty , collective leadership , Baektu Bloodline

Roundtable on ‘Global Nuclear Developments and India’s Policy challenges'

On 8 January 2020, the Vivekananda International Foundation organised a roundtable on Global Nuclear Developments and India’s Policy challenges. Dr Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, opened the floor by laying the purpose of the roundtable, which....

January 09, 2020 Technological and Scientific Studies , Interaction , Nuclear Weapons , INF Treaty , Global Nuclear Developments , India’s Policy challenges , India’s Policy

Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming....

October 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan , South Korea , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear War , Air Force , Foreign Minister , TNWs , weapons , Sabre-rattling , Nuclear Weapons