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Taliban’s Victory: Implications for the Region
August 21 , 2021 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 6221
The Taliban victory in Afghanistan in the 90s had displaced Rabbani government from Kabul. It was a slow process; they could not establish control over the North, which remained under the control of the...

Afghanistan, Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan , Central Asia , ETIM , Haqqani , Imran Khan , India , Iran , ISI , Taliban , TTP

विकासशील से विकसित दिशा की ओर अग्रसर भारत
August 21 , 2021 Akanksha Bajpai
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नात्मप्रियं प्रियं राज्ञः प्रजानां तु प्रियं प्रियम्॥ (अर्थशास्त्र 1/19) (अर्थात्- राजा का अपना प्रिय (स्वार्थ) कुछ नहीं है, प्रजा का प्रिय ही उसका प्रिय है।) एक श्रेष्ठ राजा वही होता है, जो अपनी प्रजा ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , नागरिकों के कर्तव्य , भारत सरकार , मूल जिम्मेदारियाँ , लोक-तंत्र , सरकारी योजनाएं , सुशासन

Lost in Afghanistan
August 20 , 2021 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 31287
Eleven days changed the fate of Afghanistan much faster than expected as the US withdrawal date seemed to have been advanced by a month instead of 9/11 - the 20th anniversary of the Twin towers demoliti...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : China , Doha Agreement , India , Islamabad , Taliban , US

रायसी का राष्ट्रपति बनना और इसके निहितार्थ
August 20 , 2021 Kingshuk Chatterjee
Article Views: 4733
इस्लामिक गणराज्य ईरान में राष्ट्रपति पद के लिए हुए चुनाव के परिणाम के बारे में ज्यादातर लोग पहले ही अनुमान लगा चुके थे। इस चुनाव में ईरानी न्यायपालिका के वर्तमान मुखिया इब्राहिम रायसी के चुने जाने से ईर...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : अफगानिस्तान , अमेरिका , इस्लामाबाद , चीन , तालिबान , दोहा समझौता , भारत

Takeaways from the Fullerton lecture
August 19 , 2021 Amruta Karambelkar
Commentary Views: 5544
A high-level US visit was due in Southeast Asia. The region felt having been neglected from the previous administration. Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense visited Singapore, Vietnam and the Philip...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN , China , Indo-Pacific , Taiwan , US

Brazil: In the Eye of the Storm
August 18 , 2021 Amb JK Tripathi
Commentary Views: 7017
Brazil, by far the biggest and most powerful country in South America, is witnessing probably the most serious crisis of the century. Though Covid 19 has played havoc on Brazil as it has done to many ot...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Bolsonaro , BRICS , Climate Change , Corruption , Covaxin , India , Lula

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