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Interaction with ACM Sir Stuart Peach, KCB CBE ADC, VCDS (UK)

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach KCB CBE ADC, UK’s Vice Chief of the Defence Staff on April 21st, 2015 for an interaction on issues relating to India’s security and defence. With General NC ....

May 27, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Indian Ocean , India’s foreign policy , UK’s Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
Vimarsha: Northeast as the Backbone of India’s Act East Policy - A talk by Lt Gen (retd) Nirbhay Sharma

Vimarsha - VIF’s monthly series of talks on issues of contemporary strategic relevance - was held on 13 May 2015 with then Governor of Arunachal Pradesh His Excellency Lt Gen (retd) Nirbhay Sharma sharing his perspective on the development of the N....

May 26, 2015 North-East Insurgency , Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Southeast Asia , Act East Policy , Look East Policy , Northeast , India’s China policy
The Trajectory of India’s Nuclear Deterrence since May 1998
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

India conducted five nuclear tests over two days on May 11 and 13, 1998, and declared itself a state armed with nuclear weapons. Since then, India’s nuclear deterrence has been effectively operationalised. With a pacifist strategic culture steeped ....

May 26, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence
Firm Correctness will yield Positive Results with China
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

A clear-eyed assessment of the Prime Minister’s visit to China from 14 to 16 May must conclude that it has its pluses, no doubt, but there are also negatives that require attention. This will entail a detailed discussion on three major aspects of t....

May 25, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Putting India Emphatically on Global Map
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Prime Minister Modi has surprised his own people and, no doubt, external observers, by his foreign policy activism since he took office. In his year in power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 if the forthcoming visits to China, Mongolia and S....

May 23, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy
Ghani's Gambit is Failing, Afghanistan is Unravelling
Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

The spring of 2015 was always going to be ‘hot’ in Afghanistan. The Taliban had already made clear their intention to bring the Ashraf Ghani government to its knees. It was also going to test the mettle of the Afghan National Army (ANA) which for....

May 22, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Modi visit to China - Looking ahead
Amb TCA Rangachari, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Given the perceptions of a Janus-like character of India-China relations, it is well-nigh impossible to escape the past. Nor does one need to, considering the rich historical and cultural legacy that the two peoples have inherited. In the words of th....

May 22, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Kick-starting Regional Cooperation in South Asia – the Way Forward
Amb Tariq Karim

The South Asian region has been plagued by festering intra-regional disputes since its independence from colonial rule. The peoples of this region have been unable to progress towards self-fulfillment and self-realization of their latent potentials,....

May 22, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies
A forthright Modi in China
Amb Kanwal Sibal

During his China visit, Prime Minister Modi has been unusually forthright in speaking about the problems that hold back the India-China relationship. He probably feels that his desire to strengthen ties with China being so clear, he has earned the co....

May 21, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Talking Candidly to China
Nitin A Gokhale

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to have gone beyond the cautious approach usually advocated by the tightly-knit ‘China group’, an informal team of Sinologists in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in dealing with Beijing during his recen....

May 20, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
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