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BIMSTEC - Towards a Security Architecture
June 10 , 2019 Dr Sreeradha Datta
Commentary Views: 2983
The renewed mandate for PM Modi holds several implications for India’s domestic and foreign policy both. The presence of Bay of Bengal initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (B...

Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Common security architecture , India’s BIMSTEC commitments , India’s extended neighbourhood

West Asia Review, May 2019
June 10 , 2019 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 4880
May, the holy month of Ramadan, instead of ensuing peace, witnessed heightening of tensions in the Middle East region. On May 2, President Trump declared that no more waivers in purchase of oil will be allowed for the eight countries including India who were permitted to import crude from Iran since last November as an exception.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Confabulations in West Asia , Syria-India relation , West Asia developments

Israel’s Dissolved Knesset
June 7 , 2019 Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 3422
On 9 April 2019, national election was held in Israel in which the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assumed victory. The ruling party, Likud maintained its lead in the 120 members Israeli Par...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Israel elections , Netanyahu’s political test , political dissonance in Israel

27 मार्च 2019 का ए-सैट परीक्षण
June 7 , 2019 Dr Sheel Kant Sharma, PhD
Article Views: 3060
भारत ने आखिरकार उपग्रह रोधी प्रौद्योगिकी (ए-सैट) का परीक्षण कर ही लिया। भारत की क्षमता दर्शाने के लिए यह परीक्षण काफी पहले से किया जाना था और वह प्रदर्शन आधुनिक प्रौद्योगिकियों के संदर्भ में किया गया। य...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Hindi , उपग्रह रोधी ए-सैट , भारत का अंतरिक्ष क्षमता , भारत का मिसाइल रक्षा

Ideas for PM Modi’s upcoming SCO Summit in Kyrgyzstan
June 6 , 2019 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 3577
The 19th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit is scheduled to be held on 13-14 June 2019 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It is the second summit after India was granted full membership of this organiz...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India-CAR’s relations , India’s objectives in SCO , SCO Summit 2019

Historical Perspective on Ancient and Medieval Sino-India Wars
June 6 , 2019 Colonel D Lakshmana Kumar
Article Views: 21114
Before the 1962 border clash, Mao Zedong apparently told his commanders that China and India had previously fought ‘One and a half wars’ and in both instances India had been defeated convincingly. This historical misconception would have had no significance had it not been quoted repeatedly by authors and scholars.

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Mao’s notion of Sino-India history , Mongol incursions in mediaeval times

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