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Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Prerna Gandhi is an Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation with a focus on Japan, ASEAN and Korean Peninsula. She is currently a doctoral student at Dept. of East Asian Studies, Delhi University. She is also a recipient of the Mitsubishi Corporation International Scholarship and visited Japan in the “Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths Program- JENESYS” in summer of 2011.

Prerna Gandhi is an Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation with a focus on Japan, ASEAN and Korean Peninsula. She is currently a doctoral student at Dept. of East Asian Studies, Delhi University. She is also a recipient of the Mitsubishi Corporation International Scholarship and visited Japan in the “Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths Program- JENESYS” in summer of 2011.

Contributions 
Recognizing the Rise of the Private Military Contractors
July 23, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
“The disjunction between the seriousness of international politics and the triviality of international relations theory is quite startling.” —Professor R. B. J. Walker Despite the current intern...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, BRI, war on terror, PMCs, UNPKOs, Montreux Document, Clinton, Executive Outcomes, DynCorp, Frontier Services Group, SADAT
चतुष्टय (क्वाड) को लेकर ट्रंप से लेकर बाइडेन तक बदलता अमेरिकी परिप्रेक्ष्य
April 27, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
“जो समुद्र पर प्रभुत्व रखता है, वह कारोबार पर दखल रखता है; जिसका दुनिया के व्यवसाय पर नियंत्...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Article, भारत। चीन। रूस। दक्षिण चीन सागर। आस्ट्रेलिया। ट्रंप। जापान। ओबामा। आसियान केंद्रीकता। बाइडेन। पूर्वी चीन सागर।
Changing American Perspective on Quad from Trump to Biden
March 23, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
“Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.” -Sir Walter Raleigh, 17th Century It is still too early in...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, India, China, Russia, South China Sea, Australia, Trump, Japan, Obama, ASEAN Centrality, Biden, East China Sea
भूआर्थिक रणनीति की रूपरेखा
March 16, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
सहस्राब्दियों से राष्ट्र-राज्य ने शक्ति की अपनी राजनीति में आर्थिक उपकरणों का बेधड़क उपयोग कि...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, China, Hindi, Article, भारत। चीन। हिंद-प्रशांत क्षेत्र। वैश्वीकरण। आरसीईपी। भूआर्थिकी। उदारीकरण। संशोधनवाद। यूएसटीआर। घरेलू बाजार। टिक टॉक।
Outlining a Geoeconomic Strategy for India
February 19, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Since time immemorial, states have used economic tools to practise power politics. Thus, questions arise on the recent discourse of the emergence of a new geoeconomic era in international relations. The rise of China which markedly defines today’s ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, China, Commentary, India, China, Indo-Pacific, globalization, RCEP, Geoeconomics, Liberalism, Revionism, USTR, Domestic Market, TikTok
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VIF Papers 
Japan’s Changing Security Discourse from the prism of its Deterrence Imperative
October 17, 2018 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
... US-Japan alliance is cornerstone for Japan’s security and its deterrence. However, despite conflicts of interests and intermittent tensions, Japan has never sought to replace the alliance with its own defense capabilities .. Though Japan’s s...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Japan’s national security, Japan SDF deterrence
VIF Briefs 
Threat of Military Conflict on Korean Peninsula
February 13, 2018 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
..... the latent possibilities of a conflict have now moved into the direction of a US-North Korea conflict. The increased pace of nuclear and missile testing under Kim Jong-un’s supremacy has sought to hasten North Korea’s surge of being able to...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, North Korea, US, Korean Peninsula, US-North Korea conflict, Songun Policy, Kim Jong-un Regime
Event Reports 
Foreign Secretary’s Vimarsh Talk on "Global Rebalancing and India's Foreign Policy"
July 28, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
In the series of Vimarsh public lectures delivered by eminent personalities, the VIF hosted an online talk by India’s Foreign Secretary, Shri Harsh V. Shringla on 30 June 2021. Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF, in his welcome address outlined how the ...

Tags: Vimarsh, International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Aatmanirbhar Bharat, Financial crisis, Global Rebalancing
Webinar on "National Security and Media"
May 14, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
The VIF organized a webinar on " India's National Security and Media" on 22 February 2021. Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF in his opening remarks highlighted the important role media plays in how a national security issue is projected, presented, and ...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Media Studies, Interaction, Defense, journalists, Indian government
Interaction with Ambassador of Japan to India, H.E. Mr. Satoshi Suzuki
July 01, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted an online interaction with the Ambassador of Japan to India, H.E. Mr. Satoshi Suzuki on 29 June 2020. The one-and-a-half-hour interaction saw participation by many stalwarts from New Delhi’s str...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Interaction, Act East, Samvad, COVID-19, Self-reliance, Ambassador of Japan, standing cooperation, Global Partnership
VIF-Embassy of ROK Seminar on Prospects of Peace and Denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula
March 21, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
The Vivekananda International Foundation organized a joint closed-door seminar with the Embassy of Republic of Korea on 20 December 2019 to discuss ‘Peace and Denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula’. After opening remarks by Dr Arvind Gupta, Di...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Seminars, US, Korean Peninsula, Denuclearization, Republic of Korea, Singapore Summit, Hanoi Summit
Interaction with Korean National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA)
March 19, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
The Vivekananda International Foundation organized a closed-door interaction with a visiting delegation from the Korean National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), South Korea on 14 June 2019. The interaction covered a gamut of issues from the emerging disco...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Interaction, China, Korean National Diplomatic Academy, Korean Peninsula, North Korean crisis
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Outreach 
Impact of Demographic Transition on International Relations
May 03, 2021 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Published in Usanas Foundation on 3rd May 2021....

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