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Myanmar Round up: December 2019
January 29 , 2020 Aakriti Vinayak, Young Professional, VIF Jaideep Chanda, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 49
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. Internal violence was on the rise and saw no relief for civilians repeatedly caught in the cross fire. The Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Myanmar as a precursor to the visit by Xi Jinping, scheduled next month in January 2020.
Tags : Arakan army , ICJ verdict , Myanmar , Neighbourhood studies , Peace , Rohingya issue , Myanmar , Neighbourhood Studies
नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनयम 2019 पर कुछ विचार
January 28 , 2020 Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes
Article Views: 201
जहां तक मुझे समझ आता है, यह कानून उप महाद्वीप के बंटवारे से पैदा हुई अशांति और भ्रम को खत्म करता है।
Tags : CAA , Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 , Hindi , Partition , Refugee camps , नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनयम 2019 , Governance and Political Studies
Ukranian Tragedy - The Bigger Question
January 28 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 136
This article argues that that the downing of the Ukrainian civil airliner by an Iranian missile on 08 Jan 2020 that took 176 innocent lives is an incident that goes far beyond than ‘just a human error’; a misjudgement etc.It is a fratricide, a word which the dictionary defines as an ‘act of killing one’s own brother, sister or relatives or in a civil war, killing fellow countrymen’.
Tags : fratricide , human error , IRGC , missile strike , Quds Force , Ukrainian aircraft , International Relations and Diplomacy
Libya – the Unfortunate Domain of International Competition: Berlin and Beyond
January 27 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 223
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 Libya”. But did they know that the western and regional powers, that were backing them, had no plan except regime change?
Tags : Erdogan , General Haftar , GNA , Libya , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Tobruk , Tripoli , UNSMIL , West Asia , International Relations and Diplomacy
Xi Hajoor ! Old Wine in the ‘New Era’ for Myanmar
January 22 , 2020 Jaideep Chanda, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 718
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 his speech at the Forum.
Tags : Documents Signed , Hearts and Minds Investments , New Era , Xi Hajoor! , Xi Jinping visits Myanmar , Myanmar , Neighbourhood Studies
Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: Review of Year 2019 and Projections for 2020
January 22 , 2020 Anurag Sharma, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 446
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 activities at a large scale. These conflicts have, therefore, been kept out of this review. The 2019 Year review and Projections for 2020 are categorised into two sections: National (A), and International (B), with sub-grouping of the timeline of events quarterly. NATIONAL JANUARY-APRIL
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , Afghanistan , al-Qaeda , al-Qaida , Counter-terrorism , India , IslamicState , national security , Pakistan , Srilanka , Terrorism , UnitedKingdom , Terrorism
Year Review: Pakistan in 2019
January 22 , 2020 Dr Yatharth Kachiar, Research Associate, VIF
Commentary Views: 409
The year 2019 brought optimism as well as trials for Pakistan in equal measure. In 2019, Pakistan under Prime Minister Imran Khan was occupied in confronting numerable challenges at the domestic as well as international levels. At the domestic front, the situation remained grim for Pakistan as the government under Prime Minister Imran Khan struggled to live up to the promises it made during its election campaign.
Tags : Afghanistan , Army , economy , foreign policy , India , Pakistan , Saudi , US , Pakistan , Neighbourhood Studies
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