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What Goes Around Comes Around - Changing Contours of Air and Air Defence War in Ukraine
July 5 , 2023 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
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Abstract The old cliché, ‘what goes around comes around’ best describes the changing contours of the air and air defence war as it unfolds in Ukraine and is now spilling into Russia. This work examines ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air and air defence war , Air war in Ukraine , Russia- Ukraine air war , Ukraine War

Assessment of US Secretary of State Blinken’s Two-Day Visit to China
July 4 , 2023 Jayadeva Ranade
Article Views: 5740
The Western media, in sharp contrast to China’s tightly controlled official media, seems to have gushed at the apparent success of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to China on June 18-19. C...

China, US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Blinken , China , Core issue , Qin Gang , Taiwan , Wang Yi , Xi Jinping

Basanti Devi: An Environmentalist and a champion of Women Empowerment
July 4 , 2023 Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF
Positive Bharat Views: 5300
Born in a village of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand in 1958, Basanti Devi’s life was never easy. She got married at the age of twelve, only to become a widow at fourteen. What transpired after that...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Climate Change

Tags : deforestation , Environment , firewood , Kosi movement , mahila mandal , padayatra , Positive Bharat , social discrimination , untouchability , Women empowerment

China: “Soft use” of “Hard power”
July 3 , 2023 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 5286
China’s geopolitical aims and global ambitions are not a secret. President Xi sees China the most pre-eminent power in Asia and eventually, the world, consolidating trans-continental routes and waterway...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19 , Galwan , Hard power , India , LAC , PLA , Soft Power

Fractured NATO Politics: Sweden and Japan in Focus
June 30 , 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 4493
Introduction
The Ukraine crisis has dramatically reoriented the strategic outlook of major stakeholders. Though the crisis has increased the hiatus between Russia and the West, it has also brought Russia and China closer. The most significant reorientation in focus as a fallout of the Ukraine crisis is reflected in the NATO and how this grouping of alliance has begun to view the new world events that have unfolded.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : expansion of NATO , Kurile Islands , liaison office , Macron reluctance to support Tokyo liaison office , NATO , Senkaku Islands , Turkey reservation

Importance of Aung San Suu Kyi
June 30 , 2023 Amb Rajiv Bhatia
Podcast Views: 2823
The Role of Aung San Suu Kyi who has been at the helm of political affairs in Myanmar’s march towards democracy was crucial. In this episode, Amb Rajiv Bhatia and Cchavi Vasisht, discuss the importance ...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Military Coup , Myanmar , Suu Kyi

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