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Multi-Vector Foreign Policy of Vietnam and Cooperation with China
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The end of cold war in 1991 and dawn of a new era in the global politics also had its concomitant impact on Vietnam and its approaches to foreign policy. While the earlier decades witnessed a series of conflicts the nineties saw Vietnam engaging mult

November 24, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, foreign policy, China - Veitnam
Third Anniversary of Xi’s China Dream
Ashish Sirsikar

"Everyone is talking about a China Dream. I believe the revival of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the nation since modern times"1 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CCP, 29 November 2012
When

November 24, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, China
Bihar results will not impact Foreign Policy
Amb Kanwal Sibal

While the impact of the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral debacle in Bihar and the public rift between the party's "veterans" and the current leadership on the course of domestic politics is uncertain, India's foreign relations will not normally be

November 19, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, India, foreign policy, Bihar Election
“SiLKS” FORUM, MADRID
Vice Admiral Anup Singh

The One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative of the Chinese has seen a number of international conferences hosted in China over the last two years, to debate and seek ideas from the global economic/strategic community on the optimum parameters and pre-req

November 15, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, OBOR, China Silk Road
Upping the Ante in the South China Sea
Commodore Gopal Suri

The political climate in the South China Sea has become more charged with the US Navy sending a destroyer, the USS Lassen, on a Freedom of Navigation patrol (FONOP) within 12 nm of the Subi Reef, a Chinese occupied natural formation in the con

October 30, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, South China Sea, USA Navy
The Pakistani Shadow on Indo-Us Relations
Amb Kanwal Sibal

We should be treating the visits of Pakistani leaders abroad as part of normal diplomacy that all countries engage in. By paying too much attention to them we boost Pakistan’s political importance and diminish our own stature. Unfortunately, we can

October 26, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, Pakistan, South Asia, India-USA Relation
Russia in Syria : The Why & What Next
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

As I sit before the television I see events hurtling across West Asia at a speed faster than can be discerned. I follow events almost minute to minute but find it difficult to make strategic sense out of many of them. It’s why I pity the layman obs

October 26, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, Islamic State, ISIS, West Asia, Russia - Syria
Rising Tensions in the South China Sea
Commodore Gopal Suri

The South China Sea has been an area of friction for the last couple of decades with regular flare ups between states that ring this area due to competing territorial and sovereignty claims. The Spratly Islands have often been in the news with contes

October 21, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, South China Sea, Vietnam
AUSINDEX – Mid-Power Bonhomie in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Ramanand Garge

Defence and economic cooperation are two prominent and defining aspects of any bilateral relationship in today’s world. While evaluating the growing bilateral relationship between India and Australia, it is heartening to note that in both these are

October 09, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy
The Paralysis over Syria
Sarosh Bana

The refugee crisis cannot be resolved without tackling Syria’s conflict There is turbulence in the Eurozone and its disquieting genesis lies in the protracted civil war in Syria, some 1,200 km away to the east. As Europe’s demog

October 09, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy
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