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Review of Japan 2019 and Outlook for 2020
February 03, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

2019 was an eventful year for Japan in both national and international domains. From an imperial transition to being the G20 Chair, to major trade agreements and the deadly Typhoon Hagibis, the year was filled with its share of ups and downs for Japa....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific

Tags : Article , India , South Korea , US , China , Iran , EU , Reiwa Era , G20 , Northeast India
Game Changing Pacts for the North East
February 03, 2020 Rajesh Singh Commentary

Two important agreements were inked in recent days, and they are expected to usher in lasting peace and prosperity in the North-East. Not surprisingly, the electronic media by and large, obsessed with the ongoing furore over the Citizenship (Amendmen....

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Commentary , Bru-Reang people , Mizo , Bodoland , Bodoland Territorial Council
Exploring Iran’s Domestic Dynamics towards the US
January 31, 2020 Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF | Aarushi Suri Article

The internal political dynamics in Iran are divided into three blocs namely the clergy, the technocracy and the military and security forces. The interplay between the three blocs into the clergy-military; military-technocrat and clergy-technocrat al....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US , West Asia

Tags : Article , JCPOA , IRGC , Kataeb Hezbollah , Hassan Rouhani , Qassim Soleimani , Popular Mobilisation Forces , Iran-US tensions
Mike Pompeo’s Visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: What to Expect?
January 30, 2020 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from February 1-4, 2020. He will be chairing a meeting of the ‘C5+1 forum’ at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Earlier, the visit was scheduled to take place in earl....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia

Tags : Article , China , Russia , Central Asia , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , USA , Geopolitics , EAEU
Myanmar Round Up: December 2019
January 29, 2020 Aakriti Vinayak | Jaideep Chanda Article

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s spirited though controversial visit to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague, to defend her nation, its armed forces and its conduct leading to the Rohingya Crisis, was the predominant event in December. Interna....

Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar

Tags : Article , Myanmar , Peace , Rohingya issue , Neighbourhood studies , ICJ verdict , Arakan army
नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनयम 2019 पर कुछ विचार
January 28, 2020 Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes Article

जहां तक मुझे समझ आता है, यह कानून उप महाद्वीप के बंटवारे से पैदा हुई अशांति और भ्रम को खत्म करता ह....

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , Article , CAA , Partition , Refugee camps , Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 , नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनयम 2019
Ukranian Tragedy - The Bigger Question
January 28, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Far Beyond ‘Just a Human Error’ This article argues that that the downing of the Ukrainian civil airliner by an Iranian missile on 08 Jan 2020 that took 176 innocent lives1 is an incident that goes far beyond than ‘just ....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Article , Quds Force , IRGC , missile strike , Ukrainian aircraft , human error , fratricide
Libya – the Unfortunate Domain of International Competition: Berlin and Beyond
January 27, 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Soon it will be almost a decade of destruction in Libya which in many ways could be the worst extension of the four decades of Gaddafi’s autocratic rule. On February 17, 2011 ecstatic Libyans had jubilantly marched their revolution for a ‘New Lib....

International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia

Tags : Article , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Libya , General Haftar , Tripoli , Tobruk , GNA , UNSMIL , Erdogan
Xi Hajoor ! Old Wine in the ‘New Era’ for Myanmar
January 22, 2020 Jaideep Chanda Article

Background Myanmar effectively boarded the BRI when Aung San Suu Kyi attended the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in May 2017. President Xi Jinping even acknowledged Myanmar in the context of the BRI in ....

Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar

Tags : Article , New Era , Xi Jinping visits Myanmar , Xi Hajoor! , Documents Signed , Hearts and Minds Investments
Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: Review of Year 2019 and Projections for 2020
January 22, 2020 Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

The year 2019 had significant developments in global terrorism. The review covers the important activities of terrorism and counter-terrorism (CT) around the globe. There have been ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen which includes terrorist a....

Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , India , Pakistan , national security , Counter-terrorism , Afghanistan , Terrorism , Srilanka , al-Qaeda , UnitedKingdom , IslamicState , al-Qaida
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