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ASEAN Adopts Outlook for Indo-Pacific 2019: Balances Aspirations and Affirms Indonesia’s Leadership
July 1 , 2019 Commodore Somen Banerjee
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ASEAN took a landmark decision to adopt the ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific on June 22, 2019 after more than a year of deliberations. Located centrally, in one of the most dynamic regions of the world tod...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN manoeuvres , complexities of Indo-Pacific , managing the Indo-Pacific

Escalating Tensions and Threat of Military Conflict in the Gulf Region: Who has the Edge?
July 1 , 2019 Col Rajeev Agarwal
Article Views: 3940
The incident of Iranian military downing a US Drone flying over its airspace on 20 June 2019 evoked immediate and strong response from the US. Reports suggested the US President ordered retaliatory military strikes against Iran, to be executed at dawn on 21 June, before changing his mind at the last moment. Recent events like this have brought the Persian Gulf region closer to the threat of a military conflict than it has been before in the recent past.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Confrontations in the Gulf , Tension in West Asia , US-Iran conflict

Nano-Technology and its Military Application
June 28 , 2019 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty
Article Views: 16716
Nano technology is science, technology and engineering conducted at nano scale of approximately 1 to 100 nanometre (nm).1 It is stated that physicist Richard Feynman is the father of this technology.

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Military application of nano-tecnology , Nano-advantage for Indian Army , R&D for nano-technology

An India-US Trade War Now?
June 28 , 2019 Rajesh Soami
Commentary Views: 3620
The United States, under President Trump, has been at loggerheads with a long list of countries on trade related issues. This includes China, Canada, Mexico and India. The European Union has also suffer...

Economic Studies

Tags : American unilateralism on trade , US trade sanctions , US-India trade relations

Presidential Elections in Kazakhstan: A Wave of Change or Continuation of Nazarbayev’s Era?
June 27 , 2019 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 1905
Kazakhstan’s deteriorating socio-economic situation and an increasing gap in living standards have led to the protests and demonstrations. As some reports have suggested, the Soviet era founder Presiden...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Challenges of Kazakh government , Indo-Kazakh relations , Kazakhstan’s new President

Leveraging India’s Civilisational Ethos
June 27 , 2019 Mayuri Mukherjee
Article Views: 6019
Less than a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second swearing-in, the ongoing celebrations for the fifth iteration of the International Yoga Day1 (IYD) offer an excellent opportunity to conside...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Idea of Indian exceptionalism , India’s civilisational

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