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Climate Change & Environmental Degradation: Impacts of War in Afghanistan
February 29 , 2024 Dr Anchita Borthakur, Research Associate, VIF
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Introduction
In the beginning of this month (February 2024) a three-day international conference on climate change was organized by the Nangarhar University situated in Jalalabad, the capital city of the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan , Climate Change , Drought , environmental degradation , Karez System , Landmines , Military Burn Pits , Napalm , War , War Induced Deforestation

Climate Change in Central Asia: An Assessment of its Impact and Crisis Management
February 28 , 2024
Article Views: 599
Introduction
Climate change is having a significant impact on Central Asia, affecting social, economic, and environmental facets of society. Extreme weather conditions such as the coldest winters, flooding, earthquakes, melting of glaciers, and drying up of rivers and lakes have been some of the major issues hampering the environmental balance in this region.

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Climate Change , climate resilience , Disaster Reduction , global warming , Hydrogen Plant , Nuclear Power , sustainable development

Changing Contours of Drone Warfare – Dawn of a New Reality
February 27 , 2024 Sunil Yadav, Senior Fellow, VIF
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Military drones have become an indispensable tool in modern warfare, and stand poised to shape the contours of all future wars. Use of drones in warfare is not new, they were used in Vietnam,

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : anti drone systems , Black Hornet , cardboard drones , cost effectiveness , Drone swarms , FPV drones , HALE , loitering munitions , Male , Military drones , MQ-9 Reaper , Techno Guerrilla warfare

Chinese President Xi Jinping Beset by Growing Popular Discontent
February 26 , 2024 Jayadeva Ranade
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Faced with increasing popular discontent, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese leadership have since the 19th Party Congress in 2017 been focussed on trying to assert the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s pre-eminence in all sectors and ensure social stability.

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : CCP , Demonstrations , HRIC , MPS , National Statistics Bureau , salary reduction , Strikes , Xi Jinping

As Russia-Ukraine conflict reaches two year mark, it is advantage Putin
February 24 , 2024 Amb D.B. Venkatesh Varma, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 634
With the West locked into a semi-permanent conflict with Russia, and the fraying deterrence equations between the big powers, the consequent disequilibrium on the Eurasian continent is a matter of deep ...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : NATO , Putin , Russia , Ukraine Conflict

Ongoing Russia-Ukraine War 2022-2024: Battleground of Adaptations and Innovations
February 23 , 2024 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 625
The war that commenced on 24 February 2022 between Ukraine and Russia, has limited parallels with the ongoing war! The sheer dynamism in adaptation, by initiative, ingenuity and vitality of the battlegr...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Decoys , Drones , End game , EW , HIMARS , Russia , Ukraine

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