Articles | Vivekananda International Foundation

Strategic thinkers have maintained that geography play a key role in determining a nation's aspirations, goals and behaviour. Taking cue, the author in this paper has delved on China's geography and the courses that this factor might play in China's....

November 10, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Taiwan , China's geography , Island Chains , Eastern Region

Revisiting India's Disaster Response Mechanism: Challenges and Way Forward

One Day Round Table Conference (May 6, 2016) organised jointly by Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) & Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF)....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , NDRF , India's Disaster Response , National Response Mechanism , State Response Mechanism

Modi’s daring War on Bribery and Black Money

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

The stunning announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that from midnight of November 8, 2016, the presently circulating currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 denominations will cease to be legal tender is the boldest attack on the scourge of black....

November 09, 2016 Economic Studies , modi , economy , Black Money , Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Rs 1000 , Rs 500 , surgical strike , Indian Curencey , hawala , Gurumurthy

Joint RCSS-VIF-ITS Conference Emerging Strategic Dynamics in Indo-Pacific

The Colombo-based Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RSCC), in collaboration with Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) and Institute for Transnational Studies (ITS) of Germany, organised a two-day conference on 21-22 October 2016 in Colombo....

November 09, 2016 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Featured , Conferences , Indo-Pacific , OBOR , European Union , United States , Southeast Asia , Emerging Strategic Dynamics

Media’s Role in Covering Anti-Terror Operations

Rajesh Singh

There has been a flurry of opinions and views in recent days in the media, both mainstream and social, on a ‘looming threat’ to the freedom of the Press in the country. The scare has been triggered by sections within the media and outside after t....

November 08, 2016 Governance and Political Studies , Policies & Perspectives , Anti-Terror Operations

आतंकवाद से आतंक तकः अंतरराष्ट्रीय समुदाय के लिए चिंताजनक घटनाक्रम

Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

आतंकवादी संगठन इस्लामिक स्टेट ऑफ इराक एंड सीरिया (आईएसआईएस) के कब्जे वाले क्षेत्र जब से वापस हा�....

November 08, 2016 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

BRICS 2016: An Analysis

Dr Teshu Singh

The 8^th BRICS Summit was held in Goa from 15-16 October 2016. The theme of the summit was “Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions”. On 16 February 2016, India took over as the President of BRICS. This is second chance ....

November 08, 2016 Economic Studies , BIMSTEC , Terrorism , BRICS , economic cooperation , NBD

US Presidential Election – the Final Countdown

Dr Harinder Sekhon

As the race to the White House enters its final day, attention gets re-focused on polls that have tightened and predict a very close race. An ABC/ Washington Post poll on November 1 gave Trump a 1% lead over Clinton and an 8-point lead over her on th....

November 07, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton , ABC Poll , Real Clear Politics.com , FBI Investigation , Senator David Purdue , Swing States , Florida - key battleground state , Mitt Romney , George HW Bush , Colin Powell , US Electoral College , Hispanics , African Americans

Dealing with Pakistan – Indus Water Treaty, the Most Favoured Nation Status and Cross Border Terrorism

Rajesh Singh

The surgical strikes that the Indian Armed Forces carried out on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC) late September, so effectively seized the national consciousness that they displaced the other important options being discuss....

November 05, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Policies & Perspectives , Terrorism , Indus Water Treaty , Most Favoured Nation Status , Indo-Pakistan confrontation , Tulbul , Wular Lake

सातवां शियांगशान फोरम

Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

अनौपचारिक बातचीत का दौर सातवां ‘शियांगशान’ (शाब्दिक अर्थ है ‘खुशबू भरी पहाड़ियां’) सम्मेलन ....

November 04, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence