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The Rise in Pakistan Defence Budget: What to Read?
May 24, 2018 Prateek Joshi Commentary

Pakistan’s Budget was unveiled last month, as part of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-led government’s last budget for its term before the elections kick-in in the coming months. Of all the allocations, the allocation to defence sector generated he....

Keywords : Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Commentary , Pakistan’s defence budget , Pakistan’s higher defence spending
Commentary: India Should Be Innovative in the Challenging Times Ahead
May 21, 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Prime Minister Modi has shown remarkable innovativeness in foreign policy arena recently. This shows that he is cognisant of the challenges for India that are looming ahead. The ‘informal summit’ with Xi Jinping in April 2018 was an attempt to....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Indian foreign policy , India’s foreign policy challenges
Changing Political Landscape in the Middle East
May 21, 2018 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

President Trump’s announcement of US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal comes at a time, when the political landscape in the Middle East is changing fast. Hizbullah won the majority in Lebanon elections in early May. The Iraqi election results ....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Middle East politics , Elections in Iraq
Bangladesh: Quota Politics
May 18, 2018 Abhijit Chakravertty Commentary

What began as a small protest against quotas in government jobs in Dhaka University on 17 February 2018 soon spread to Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal, Mymensingh, Sylhet and some other parts of the country. It reached its peak on 8 April when students b....

Keywords : Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , Bangladesh elections , Bangladesh student agitation , Reservation in jobs
Commentary: PM Modi’s Visit to Nepal - the Beginning of a New Chapter
May 17, 2018 Abhigya Langeh Commentary

Within a month of the first official foreign trip under taken by Nepal’s new Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to New Delhi (Apr 6-8, 2018) which came within two months of his assumption of office in February 2018, the Indian Prime Minister Modi paid a....

Keywords : Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Commentary , Indian PM’s Nepal visit , Indo-Nepal relations
Commentary: India’s Lines of Credit Dilemma
May 16, 2018 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on his third visit to Nepal at the end of the week from May 11-12, closely on the heels of visit of Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli. Speaking at the India Foundation function PM Oli appreciated India’s assist....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Commentary , Economic diplomacy , Diplomatic Lines of Credit
Commentary: Will Japan Carry the Bastion of Constitution Amendment After Abe?
May 16, 2018 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

“角を矯めて牛を殺す”
(Kill a bull by straightening its horns, meaning: Action taken to put something right is often more unpleasant or damaging than the original problem)
The above quote succinctly ....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Japanese Constitution , Japan’s Defence Policy
India’s Fifth Largest Military Spending Rank by SIPRI – A Reality Check
May 14, 2018 Brig (retd) Rahul Bhonsle Commentary

The latest report on global military spending published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on 02 May has placed India as the fifth largest defence spender in the World in 2017. SIPRI attributes increase in the global mili....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Indian defence budget , Military spending report
Chinese Economy in 2018: Changes and Challenges
May 14, 2018 Aayush Mohanty Commentary

Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Le Keqiang, while addressing the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress kept China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at 6.5 percent for 2018, somewhat lower than th....

Keywords : Economic Studies , Commentary , Chinese economy , China’s financial policy
ASEAN Summit at Singapore: Urgent Need for a Legally Binding Code of Conduct in South China Sea
May 11, 2018 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The 32nd edition of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit took place in Singapore in from 25-28 April where the central theme of the meeting was envisioned as ‘Resilient and Innovative ASEAN’. While the South East Asia....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , South China Sea Code of Conduct , China’s militarisation of SCS
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