International Relations and Diplomacy

India's China challenge: A journey through China's rise and what it means for India; Author: Ananth Krishnan; HarperCollins India; 2020; ISBN: 978-9390327683; Pp 420; Price Rs 449

Akarsh Srivastava

“You can change your friends but not your neighbours.” This quote by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee aptly captures the theme of the book India’s China Challenge written by seasoned journalist Ananth Krishnan. Author with his vast experience as the principal correspondent of The Hindu publishing group and India Today,

Introduction “You can change your friends but not your neighbours.” This quote by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee aptly captures the theme of the book India’s China Challenge written by seasoned journalist Ananth Krishnan. Author with his vast experience...

July 14, 2025

Tags: India China Relations, International Relations, Kailash-Manasarovar, The Economic Challenge, WTO, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India, Author: Vijay Gokhale; Penguin Random House India; 2021, Pp 200; Rs 265, ISBN: 978-0670095605

Akarsh Srivastava

After the success of his first book “Tiananmen Square: Making of a Protest”, Ambassador Vijay Gokhale has brought his decades of experience in dealing with our next-door neighbours to pen down how the Chinese view India when they engage in negotiations with us. Amb. Gokhale as one of the top sinologists of the country

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June 5, 2025

Tags: China, Long Game, Masood Azhar, Tiananmen Square, Vijay Gokhale, International Relations and Diplomacy

Evolution of India’s Polar Policies; Authors: Jawahar Bhagwat & Anurag Bisen; The Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 297 p.

Valery Konyshev

The book of Jawahar Bhagwat and Anurag Bisen devoted to evolution of the modern India’s Polar policies. A distinctive feature of this study is the authors' unique experience based on practical, government, and academic activities. Both are veteran...

April 4, 2025

Tags: Arctic Council, Arctic shipping, China’s engagement in the Arctic, India's Antarctic policy, India's Polar policies, India’s Arctic policy, India’s foreign policy in the Arctic, Institutional barriers in India’s Arctic policy, Multilateral Arctic cooperation, NATO military presence in the Arctic, Northern Sea Route (NSR), One Earth, One Family, One Future, Russia-China Arctic cooperation, Russia’s Arctic strategy, Scientific diplomacy, Svalbard Treaty, U.S. Arctic deterrence strategy., International Relations and Diplomacy

India-Indonesia Relations – A Civilizational Partnership; Ed. Vinod Anand; Pentagon Press 2024, New Delhi, ISBN 978-881-980002-7-9

Prof (Dr) Debasis Bhattacharya

As India and Indonesia have embarked into commemorating and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, the joint publication of edited volume titled India-Indonesia Relations – A Civilizational Partnership by the...

December 6, 2024

Tags: Civilizational Partnership, India, India Indonesia relations, Indian Ocean Region, Indonesia, Historical and Civilisational Studies, International Relations and Diplomacy

Book Review: ‘A Life Well Spent: Four Decades in the Indian Foreign Service’; Amb. Satish Chandra, Roopa Publications, 2023, ISBN: 9357020950, pp. 284, Rs 636

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The book by Ambassador Satish Chandra covers four decades he served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1965 to 2005. The book is not simply an account of his personal journey. It provides a glimpse into the making of foreign policy. It also covers...

May 19, 2023

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, 1971, Awami League, foreign policy, Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan, UNCHR, Jammu & Kashmir, International Relations and Diplomacy

China in the Cyber Domain, Major General PK Mallick, VSM, Prints Publications Pvt Ltd. 2022. ISBN:978-93-936740-4-3

Colonel Rajiv Kumar Srivastava

Millions of smartphones or computers and their hardware all over the world with made-in-China tags provide a sense that the Dragon country is perhaps one of the most advanced IT-enabled countries. PLA soldiers are safe behind their high-tech Digital...

January 19, 2023

Tags: Chinese Cyber, Covid, cyber domain, cyber firewall, PLA, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Destined for war: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2017. 384pp. ISBN 978-0-544-93527-3

Kartikeya Pandey

“Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.” said Napoleon more than two hundred years ago and quoted by the author in the very first chapter of the book which talked about the rise of China. The author contends that the growth of...

December 19, 2022

Tags: Industrial Revolution, Napoleon, Russia, United States, US-Japan, China, US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Qin, Hui, 2021. Globalization after the Pandemic: Thoughts on the Coronavirus. Translated by David Own by. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Mihir Vikrant Kaulgud

During the pandemic, China has pursued a “zero COVID policy,” which has required harsh restrictions on citizens' mobility and freedoms. Well into 2022, the Chinese government is shutting down entire districts, because a few asymptomatic COVID cases...

August 18, 2022

Tags: COVID-19, Human Rights, zero COVID policy, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Kashi Ram Sharma, ‘The Third Birth of Confucius: Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Philosophy in the Post-Mao China’. New Delhi, Manohar, 2022. 385pp. Rs. 1,995.00

Prof K Warikoo

Kashi Ram Sharma, ‘The Third Birth of Confucius: Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Philosophy in the Post-Mao China’. New Delhi, Manohar, 2022. 385pp. Rs. 1,995.00Confucius has made a remarkable comeback in China. As the author emphasizes, “...

July 25, 2022

Tags: Buddhism, China, Chinese civilization, Mao, China, International Relations and Diplomacy