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War And The New World Order
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

We enter 2025 with two wars entering their final phase, but with no realistic basis for a long-term peace settlement. They have also ensured that global empathy has been totally diverted from other human tragedies, notably in Africa. We are also e

January 10, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Palestine, War, Geopolitics, Cold War, Ukraine-Russia, Israel's War On Gaza
US Project 2025: Policies for Trump’s probable next term
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

If Donald Trump wins in the 2025 elections, if personnel appointments are sound, and if there is coherence of policy coordination, his agenda could have far-reaching consequences As the US Presidential election campaigns heat up, ‘Project 2025�

September 17, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Donald Trump, Global isation, US Elections 2024, Project 2025, Energy dominance
Modi embraces the bear as the Eagle looks on
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The Modi govt has broadened India’s relationships with Russia as well as with US & its allies. It’s about protecting core national interests while building on convergences & managing differences. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit t

July 16, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, India Russia Annual Summit, Modi Putin
A MEGA response to MAGA
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Macron wants to Make Europe Great Again, borrowing from Trumpian MAGA ideas and protectionist Bidenomics. The Euro polls may influence this process. In about a week, elections will determine the complexion of a new European parliament. They would

June 15, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, Donald Trump, USA, European Union, Joe Biden, France, Emmanuel Macron, European Parliament elections
Interregnum before a new world order
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

About 90 years ago, in the wake of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe, the Italian politician-philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote of the crisis in world affairs: “The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a

December 08, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Great Depression, New World Order, Cold War politics
Canada outburst dishonours code among spies
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

It is well known that intelligence agencies of major countries have harboured dissident and insurgent groups from around the world. Values, scruples and morality are not words in the lexicon of intelligence and security agencies. Their role is to

October 01, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Canada, India-Canada row
New Delhi Summit Declaration: G20 coming of age
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The pervasive mood in much of the developing world is not to let geopolitical confrontation stymie progress on the issues of major consequence for them. The issue of the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration, on day one of the two-day Summit, is no

September 13, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Governance and Political Studies, Article, New Delhi, G20, Declaration
Europe moving east, new alignments and priorities possible
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Recent interactions with strategic communities in Europe brought into focus how different the world looks from their vantage points and how geography – in its broader definition of location, physical features, natural resources, historical experien

August 27, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Europe, NATO
Foreign policy in a world between orders
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Non-alignment was a Cold War effort to retain the autonomy of policy between two hostile politico-military blocs. Foreign media covering Prime Minister Modi’s recent landmark visit to the United States frequently mentioned non-alignment as inhib

July 17, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, foreign policy, Prime Minister Modi, US State dinner
A red carpet for Modi in the US but both sides must set realistic expectations
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The frenetic bilateral exchanges of recent months have imparted a new stimulus to the India-US relationship, somewhat similar to that imparted by the nuclear deal of 2008. These giant strides stem from a convergence of strategic interests. But the ob

June 23, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, US, Article, India, US, Modi Visit, India US ties
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