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India, Vietnam, ASEAN Cooperation in Public Security and National Defence
October 16 , 2015 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
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“Our defence cooperation with Vietnam is among our most important ones. India remains committed to the modernization of Vietnam’s defence and security forces.” ---PM Narendra Modi, October 2014

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : ASEAN , India , national defence , Vietnam

UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka- An Assessment
October 16 , 2015 Anushree Ghisad
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After a delay of nearly six months, the 268-page long report of the UNHCR on alleged ‘war crimes’ in Sri Lanka was released during the ongoing thirtieth session of the Commission. Broadly, the report de...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : LTTE , Sri Lanka , UNHRC

Bangladesh - Politics of Confrontation: Political Deadlock
October 14 , 2015 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
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Bangladesh’s tryst with democracy began a new chapter in the nation’s history when the newly independent nation adopted its first Constitution in 1972 with the tenets of nationalism, democracy, socialis...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh , democracy , Political Violence , Secularism , Socialism

Low Cunning in Cloak of High Diplomacy
October 13 , 2015 Sushant Sareen
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Even before Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN General Assembly, the Pakistanis had let it be known that he would be bad-mouthing India on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. There was, therefore, no real surpri...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

AUSINDEX – Mid-Power Bonhomie in the Indo-Pacific
October 9 , 2015 Dr Ramanand Garge
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Defence and economic cooperation are two prominent and defining aspects of any bilateral relationship in today’s world. While evaluating the growing bilateral relationship between India and Australia, i...

International Relations and Diplomacy

The Paralysis over Syria
October 9 , 2015 Sarosh Bana
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The refugee crisis cannot be resolved without tackling Syria’s conflict There is turbulence in the Eurozone and its disquieting genesis lies in the protracted civil war in Syria, some 1,200 km away to t...

International Relations and Diplomacy

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