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Military modernisation in China: its implications
Jayadeva Ranade

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public announcement downsizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the grand military parade on September 3, 2015, was a major event. It signalled that the final stages of reform and reorganization of the PLA woul....

December 07, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Military Affairs , China , military modernisation , PLA
Smart Cities- Meeting the Managerial and Policy Challenge of Urbanization in India
Devyani Bhushan

Fulfilling the commitment made in the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to build- “100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure - adhering to concepts like sustainability…”, Prime Minister Narend....

December 07, 2015 Governance and Political Studies , India , Smart Cities , Urbanization , AMRUT
Interaction with TN Ninan, author of ‘Turn of the Tortoise’

While the jury may still be out debating whether India’s economy has really taken off under the new political dispensation in New Delhi, members of the VIF faculty, General NC Vij, Director VIF, Amb PP Shukla, Adm KK Nayyar, among others, engaged T....

December 04, 2015 Economic Studies , GDP , India’s economy , inetraction , Turn of the Tortoise
Malabar-2015: Towards collective security in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Ramanand Garge

The strategically significant Joint India-US Naval exercise MALABAR-2015, hosted by India between October 14 and 21, 2015, conducted in the Bay of Bengal, in many ways, illustrates the growing multi-faceted military cooperation between India a....

December 04, 2015 Defence , Indo-Pacific , Malabar , India-US Naval Exercise
Workshop on 'Public-Private Partnership in Countering Online Radicalization and Recruitment to Violence'

Vivekananda International Foundation in collaboration with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) of the University of Maryland, US Embassy and Facebook organised on November 17-18, 2015, a two-day works....

November 27, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , World war , radicalization , ISIS , ISIL , Social Media , Recruitment to Violence , Civil Society
Interaction with Afghanistan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan H.E. Hekmat Karzai, as part of his recent visit to India, held a broad ranging interaction with members of the VIF faculty on 19 November 2015. The interaction spanned across a range of complex bilateral and....

November 26, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Interaction , Islamic State , ISIS , Taliban , Afghanistan and Pakistan
Interaction with H.E. Martin Ney, Germany’s Ambassador to India

On 19 November 2015, H.E. Martin Ney, Germany’s Ambassador to India, held an interaction with members of the VIF faculty on a broad range of issues, including, among others, the shifting strands in the present world order, the challenge of ISIS-bor....

November 26, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , ISIS , Germany , Germany’s Ambassador to India
India-­Sri Lanka Cooperation in Joint Sea Exploration
(VIF-Pathfinder joint paper)

Introduction: India and Sri Lanka are strategically located at a crossroads within the Indian Ocean; a body of water 68.5 million sq. km in extent and the third largest of the world’s oceans, after the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Their ....

November 26, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , India-­Sri Lanka , Joint Sea Exploration , Indian Ocean
Multi-Vector Foreign Policy of Vietnam and Cooperation with China
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The end of cold war in 1991 and dawn of a new era in the global politics also had its concomitant impact on Vietnam and its approaches to foreign policy. While the earlier decades witnessed a series of conflicts the nineties saw Vietnam engaging mult....

November 24, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , foreign policy , China - Veitnam
Third Anniversary of Xi’s China Dream
Ashish Sirsikar

"Everyone is talking about a China Dream. I believe the revival of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the nation since modern times"1 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CCP, 29 November 2012
When ....

November 24, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
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