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Iran’s Role in India's Strategy in the South Caucasus
July 17 , 2024 Dr Sergei Melkonian
Article Views: 1396
The changing world order is marked by the growth of new power centers and redistribution of spheres of influence. India is becoming one of the key poles, and the South Caucasus one of the regions of com...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Armenia , Azerbaijan , India's Foreign Policy , Iran , South Caucasus , Transport corridor

Modi embraces the bear as the Eagle looks on
July 16 , 2024 Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Views: 1189
The Modi govt has broadened India’s relationships with Russia as well as with US & its allies. It’s about protecting core national interests while building on convergences & managing differences.

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India Russia Annual Summit , Modi Putin

Portents of the Xi-Putin Meeting of May 2024
July 16 , 2024 Jayadeva Ranade
Article Views: 1407
Summits between Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are invariably closely monitored in world capitals, especially since the onset of Russia’s war with Ukraine in 2022 and the two h...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : CCP , China , Europe , Putin , Russia , Taiwan independence , US , Xi Jinping

View: Modi's visit shows our relations with Russia not legacy holdout
July 16 , 2024 Amb D.B. Venkatesh Varma, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Views: 1288
That Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much-anticipated and watched journey to Moscow, his first bilateral visit following the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, was opportune and overdue tells something about Indi...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : bilateral Relations , PM Modi , Russia , Vladimir Putin

India’s Climate Policy
July 15 , 2024 Dr J.R. Bhatt, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy Views: 1944
The 1990s were a time of global change. The fall of the Berlin Wall led to Francis Fukuyama arguing in The End of History and the Last Man that western liberal democracy had triumphed and there was to b...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Climate Change, Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : adaptation , Climate Change , Determinants and Evolution , Development , Environment , India's Climate Policy , mitigation

Pezeshkian as President: What Might this Mean for Iran and India
July 15 , 2024 Kingshuk Chatterjee
Article Views: 1407
Election for the presidency of the Islamic Republic in Iran has brought into limelight the unlikely figure of Masoud Pezeshkian, who beat the arch-conservative Saeed Jalili in the run-off held on 5th Ju...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 2022 protests , Ebrahim Raisi , Hijab laws , Reformist bloc , Saeed Jalili

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