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Pakistan’s National Security Policy 2022-26: Some New Elements but No Shift on India
January 17 , 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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The Imran Khan government has produced the country’s first ever National Security Policy (NSP) document that outlines Pakistan’s approach to national security and provides guidance to the government dep...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : China , Geoeconomics , India , Kashmir , National Security policy , Pakistan

Kazakh Protests: What Next?
January 15 , 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 4196
On the 4th 5th and 6th January 2022, Kazakhstan was convulsed by the most violent of protests since 1989. While the situation has been controlled for now by swift, strong state action, the event is like...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : CSTO , ETIM , Kazakhstan , Nazarbayev , Protests , Russia , SCO , Tokayev

Terrorism Studies (National): Review of 2021 & Projections for 2022
January 14 , 2022 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 8115
Despite the outbreak of the China-origin coronavirus aka COVID-19 in late 2019 and the continuation of this fatal virus spread globally in 2020, the year 2021 has witnessed the continuation in the terro...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : AlQaeda , Counter terrorism , India , ISIS , Islamic State , J&K , LWE , Pakistan , Punjab , Srinagar

कोरिया में परमाणु ऊर्जा संयंत्रों को चरणबद्ध तरीके से समाप्त करने की मून की योजना
January 13 , 2022 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 3478
दक्षिण कोरिया के राष्ट्रपति मून जे-इन के लिए समय भागा जा रहा है क्योंकि उनका कार्यकाल इसी वर्ष मई में समाप्त हो रहा है। इसके पहले उनके समक्ष दो मुद्दे हैं, जिनका वे समाधान करना चाहते हैं। हालांकि वे दोन...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , मून जे-इन। परमाणु ऊर्जा। एलएनजी। जानोस एडर। फेज आउट फ्लान। फुकुशिमा। एसएमआर रिएक्टर्स।

Restructuring Power Equation: Rise of Indigenists means fall of Communism in Nepal
January 13 , 2022 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
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Ever since the end of the autocratic Rana regime in Nepal in 1951, the country has had seven constitutions. Yet, none of the constitutions survived for more than a decade or so in this country. During t...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : communists , Constitution , CPN-UML , Janjatis , Madhesis , Maoists , Nepali Congress

West Asia: Review of 2021 and Preview of 2022
January 13 , 2022 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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Amb. Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow at VIF briefs about the upcoming trends in West Asia in 2022; discusses the reasons for reconciliatory atmosphere; identifies the conflict faultlines, and talk...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Abraham Accords , Iran , Israel-Palestine Conflict , QUAD , Saudi Arabia , UAE;

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