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Interaction with Dr. Klaus Lange, Institute of Transnational Studies, Germany

Dr Klaus Lange, Director of the Institute of Transnational Studies, Munich with branches in Italy and Gurgaon, India and Dr Klara Knapp, Deputy Director of ITS interacted with the VIF faculty on 04 April, 2014. Dr Lange shared his perspective on Ukra....

April 11, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Germany , Institute of Transnational Studies , Ukrainian crisis
Interaction with Swedish Delegation

A 17 member Swedish delegation led by Mr Henrik Haggstorm from the Swedish Armed Forces HQ interacted with the VIF faculty on 03 April 2014 on the regional and international security scenario. The Swedish delegation included Swedish Defence Attaches ....

April 11, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Swedish Defence Attaches , Swedish Delegation
Need to Treat Naxalites with Iron Fists, not Kid Gloves
Dr M N Buch (late)

On 11th March 2014, Naxalites ambushed a Road Opening Party of the Chhattisgarh Police and the Central Reserve Police in Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh killing fifteen policemen and an innocent civilian. This happened in the Jhiramghati ....

April 11, 2014 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies
Russia Looks at Regaining its Space Glory
Radhakrishna Rao

Behind the successful 2013 test flight of Antares rocket –designed and developed by the US private space enterprise Orbital Sciences Corporation— at Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island in Virginia, there was a tale of “Sovi....

April 09, 2014 Technological and Scientific Studies
Avoiding the Fall; Michael Pettis; Carnegie Endowment 2013; PP 157; Price Rs 1238 & The Great Rebalancing; Michael Pettis; Princeton University Press 2013; PP 219; Price Rs 1859
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

It makes sense to review the two books together and not just because they are written by the same author, and within a short period of each other [both were written in 2013]. The more compelling reason for doing so is that they deal with the same phe....

April 07, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Chinese economy , GDP growth , Book Reviews , Global Economy
Talk by French Ambassador to India HE Francois Richier

In his interaction with the VIF faculty on March 26, Ambassador of France to India H E Francois Richier began by identifying the similarities between India and France – above all, the commitment to maintaining strategic autonomy. This did not mean ....

April 07, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Counter-terrorism , defence cooperation , France , Civil nuclear cooperation
International Terrorism Post 9/11: Emerging Trends and Global Response
Rohit Singh

Introduction September 11, 2001 was a watershed in the manner in which the world acknowledged and responded to terrorism. The monstrosity of the multiple attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people in one planned strike brought universal conde....

April 04, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Pakistan , Terrorism , Al Qaeda , Global War on Terrorism , 26/11 attacks , 9/11 attacks
The Musharraf Case: Will Anyone Agree to Take The Fall for him?
Sushant Sareen

Even though Gen Pervez Musharraf has finally been indicted on five charges of treason by the Special Court constituted to try him, the widespread feeling within Pakistan and beyond is that this is probably as far as the civilian government could go a....

April 03, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
The Third Front in Indian Politics: An Assessment
K G Suresh

Introduction One of the significant developments in the country’s fast changing political scenario has been the rather premature demise of the much hyped 11 party Third Front. After the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK dumped the alliance with the....

April 02, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
China’s Rising Defence Expenditure and Implications for India
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

While India’s interim defence budget for the financial year (FY) 2014-15 has remained stagnant in terms of the Rupee-Dollar exchange rate and inflation, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has been given a 12.2 per cent increase over the ....

April 01, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
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