Dr Arpita Anant is Research Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her Ph.D thesis was entitled “Group Rights in the Indian and International Discourses”. She was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship (Canada) during 2001-02 to undertake doctoral research. She has also worked at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her current area of research is India’s multilateralism. Her wider areas of interest are global governance and India’s foreign policy. She is the editor of Non-State Armed Groups in South Asia: A Preliminary Structured Focused Comparison (New Delhi, Pentagon Security International, 2012) and author of Beyond Stereotypes: Contours of the Transition in Jammu and Kashmir (IDSA Monograph No. 16, April 2013), Development and India’s Economic Multilateralism: Where From…Where to? (IDSA Monograph No.68, December 2020), India's Role in Global Governance: Assessment of Engagement with Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (IDSA Monograph No. 78, August 2022).

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Saving the Tiger The Indian Express reported recently that Project Tiger, which was launched in 1973 to conserve the wild tiger population in India, completes fifty years in 2023. This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climat...

G20 Needs Inclusivity, Efficiency and a “Delhi Consensus” The Indian presidency of the G20 has taken cognizance of the challenge of achieving just and equitable growth for all the peoples of the world in a sustainable, holistic, responsible, and inclusive manner. It is founded on the philosophy of Vasudh...

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Values for Reforming Multilateralism and Creating a New World Order In the past few years, the international system has increasingly displayed tendencies of being subordinate to narrow national interests. The COVID pandemic revealed the limits of cooperation when countries turned inwards to cope with the deadly virus...

Vimarsh on “India’s G20 Presidency: Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South” The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in collaboration with the India Writes Network/Centre for Global India Insights organized a Vimarsh panel discussion on “India’s G20 Presidency: Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South” on 24 Fe...

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