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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

Year Review: Pakistan in 2019

January 22, 2020 Dr Yatharth Kachiar Commentary

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,....

Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan

Tags : Commentary , India , Pakistan , US , foreign policy , Army , economy , Afghanistan , Saudi

Constitutional Changes in Russia! What is Cooking?

January 21, 2020 Rajesh Soami Commentary

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his entire government resigned on January 15th after a televised speech by President Putin to the federal assembly wherein he proposed sweeping changes to the constitution. These changes will modify the equation of ....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia

Tags : Commentary , democracy , Putin , Medvedev , Yeltsin

Key Developments in Africa in 2019

January 21, 2020 Dr Neha Sinha Article

The year 2019 bore witness to multiple developments which dotted the continent and may lead to not only an impact in the immediate times but also have far-reaching impact on the society and polity of African nations. Peaceful Transition of Po....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa

Tags : Article , India , Africa , Terrorism , election , Cooperation , Visits , Power