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India at 75: Foreign and Economic Policies and the Road ahead
September 8 , 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Podcast Views: 5675
Since independence India has evolved at a rapid pace and successfully embraced numerous structural changes. Amid the 21st century realities, as India turns 75, its foreign policy and growing economic ca...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Economic Policy , economy , foreign policy , India@75 , International Relations

Growing Prowess of TTP amidst Negotiations
September 7 , 2022 Soumya Awasthi
Article Views: 7129
After a decade and a half long rift between the Pakistan government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and several failed peace treaties, the two sides again attempted an uneasy truce in June 2022...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Army , Central Asian history , China , ETIM , ISI , Muslim Khan , negotiation , Peace Talk , Shura , Taliban , Taliban Pakistan , Waziristan

Sinostan: China's Growing Influence in Central Asia
September 7 , 2022 Raffaello Pantucci
Podcast Views: 5893
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, China had greater ambitions to establish cordial relations with newly independent CARs, which had not previously been the case due to Sino-Soviet animosity. I...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : BRI , China , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Sinophobia , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uyghurs , Uzbekistan , Xinjiang

An Outline of the Development of Ancient Historical and Archaeological Studies in India
September 6 , 2022 Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes
Article Views: 10521
There is a wide range of studies on this topic, often contentious in various ways. Here I shall adopt a simple factual approach, outlining how the study of ancient Indian history and archaeology has dev...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : ancient India , Archaeological Survey of India , archaeology , Asiatic Society , Cunningham , Elphinstone , Indologists , Mauryan , Mohenjo-Daro

The Iraqi Political Conundrum
September 6 , 2022 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 4972
Iraq’s problems do not seem to go away. Any effort for a domestic stabilization always meets with an unequal and more intense opposing force. Politico- religious leaders hold the sway. External powers p...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Ali Khamenei , Iran , Iraq , Kurds , Sadr , Shia , Sunni

Gorbachev’s Legacy: A Reformer Who Lost the Game
September 5 , 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 6201
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the last president of the Soviet Union, passed away in Moscow on 30 August 2022 at the age of 91. He was no ordinary leade...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : glasnost , Gorbachev , Marxist-Leninist , perestroika , Putin , Russia , Ukraine , USSR

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