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West Asia Round-up - November 2019
Dr Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF

Overview Efforts are underway to de-escalate tensions between Iran on the one side and the US and Saudi Arabia on the other. Oman’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi had met Secretary Pompeo in Washington and second time car

December 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, Iran protests, Iraq demonstrations, Gaza strikes, West Bank settlement
West Asia Round-Up: October 2019
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Abstract Arab Spring 2.0 is in full view. The Middle East continued to reverberate with protests and demonstrations against regimes in several countries leading to the exit or resignations of the leaders in Lebanon and Iraq in the same vein as

November 13, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, Arab Spring 2.0, leadership crisis in Arabia, Turkey’s attack on Kurds
The Arab Spring 2.0 in Full Swing
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The cinders of the Arab Spring of 2010-11 have been reignited after smouldering for a while given the mixed outcomes and unfulfilled promises and expectations. The countries starting with Tunisia, that underwent the revolutions, witnessed minor chang

November 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Commentary, Turmoil of protests in West Asia, Popular angst against regimes in Arab world, External meddling in Levant, Arab Spring 2.0
West Asia Round Up: September, 2019
Dr Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF

Abstract The Persian Gulf Crisis The Middle East continued to worry the world especially in the wake of drone attacks on the two Saudi oil facilities that reduced the Saudi oil output by almost half. It displayed the vulnerability of crucial Sa

October 15, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, West Asia, Saudi-Iran initiative, Iran’s regional actions
India and Mongolia – The Spiritual Neighbours
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Ironically, when one thinks of Mongolia the utter winter, cold climate, distance and exotic nature claim the mind-space. This is one country where Indians are loved probably due to the Buddhist connection and Himalayan heritage of the Mongolian peopl

September 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, Central Asia, Commentary, India-Mongolia bond, Indo-Mongolia spiritual-material cooperation
India and Russia – Two decades of Strategic Dialogue and Partnership
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

In the middle of 1999, Vladimir Putin, the then Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) was appointed the Prime Minister by the ailing and drinking Boris Yeltsin- maverick of the Russian history. Within six months, before the year ended, Putin

September 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Modi-Putin meetings, Indo-Russian partnership
West Asia Monthly Round-Up: August 2019
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Abstract West Asia continues to be fraught with uncertainty and mixed diplomatic discourse. On the one hand US-Iran spat continues but showed the signs of fissure in the so called “Alliance of the Willing” as UK released the detained Iranian

September 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, West Asia diplomacy, French-Iran-US matters, UAE power-posturing
Article 370: Abrogation for Progress and Development of Jammu & Kashmir
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The divesting of Art 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution from within its own provisions and by way of Presidential decrees was a stroke of legal genius by PM Modi’s government – these Articles were seen by the rest of India as anachronistic an

August 19, 2019 Governance and Political Studies, Article, Jammu & Kashmir, Article 35A, Article 370, Next step in Kashmir, Integrated development in Kashmir
West Asia Review – July 2019
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Abstract The US-Iran spat continued despite some signs of a thaw and a possible dialogue since both sides continued with sabre rattling and mutual recriminations. Meanwhile the mutual detention of the cargo ships by Iran and the UK in the Gulf a

August 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, US-Iran developments, events in West Asia, shipping in Hormuz
पश्चिमी एशिया की समीक्षा- मई, 2019
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

अमेरिका और ईरान पवित्र रमजान का महीना मई, अमन बहाली के बजाय, मध्य-पूर्व में तनाव बढ़ने का गवाह र�

July 16, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Hindi, Article, ईरान पर अमेरिकी प्रतिबंध, मध्य-पूर्व तनाव, इस्राइल-फिलिस्तीन विवाद, सीरिया शांति प्रक्रिया
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