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.

Contributions

A Perspective on the Senkaku Islands Dispute

September 04, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

The dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands comprising five uninhabited islands and three rocks totalling seven square kilometres in the East China Sea is often understated as a simple sovereignty dispute or a resource conflict. It may, in fact, be ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Article, Southwestern Wall Defense, Uotsuri Island, ADIZ, SDF, PAFMM, UNECAFE, Okinawa Trough, Bilateral Fisheries Agreement, F35, aircraft carrier

Western Media Bias against India

August 15, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

The Western Media is now more vocal about the growing pervasiveness of moral denunciation through ‘Cancel Culture’ in western societies. Cancel Culture refers to a boycott of someone in professional or social circles that is determi...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Information Warfare, Western Media, Cancel Culture, Civilian Awards, Unbiased Journalism, Gulf Countries

The Future of China-Japan Relations

June 25, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

The China-Japan Bilateral Relationship has had an enduring impact on international relations. Usually territorial disputes, conflicting political interactions, anticipated military conflicts are all associated with reduced trade flows and states with...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Banking, United States, Supply chains, Abe-Xi Summit, Senkaku Islands, Southwestern Wall Defense, Pinghu Oil and Gas Field

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 04, 2020

June 04, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Economic Saudi Arabia poised to reverse extra production cuts as Opec+ meets Saudi Arabia is set to unwind the extra production cuts it pledged last month, increasingly confident that the grand bargain agreed by oil producers in...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Covid-19; Corona Virus; WHO; Hong Kong; Chinese

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 03, 2020

June 03, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Economic U.S. Weighs Tariffs against Nations Seeking to Tax Internet Firms The Trump administration is taking the initial step to prepare tariffs against a range of trading partners unless they back off proposals to impose taxes...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Covid-19; Tax Internet Firms; lockdown; WTO; 6G; Coronavirus; China; Huawei

Occasional 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: Japan’s national security, Japan SDF deterrence

Issue 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...

Event Reports

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

Interaction with Professor C. Raja Mohan

March 19, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

The Vivekananda International Foundation organized an interaction with Dr C. Raja Mohan, Director of Institute of South Asia Studies at National University of Singapore on the topic of "Global Dynamics and Challenges to India". Dr Mohan focused his t...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Interaction, International Relations, Climate Change, Global Dynamics, South Asia Studies

Discussion on ‘Remedial Measures to counter possible spread of Coronavirus'

March 17, 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

The Vivekananda International Foundation organized a discussion with a delegation led by Lt Gen RS Grewal, Director General Medical Services (DGMS), Army, on ‘Remedial Measures to counter possible spread of Coronavirus' on 06 March 2020. Air Commod...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Interaction, China, Wuhan, Coronavirus, WHO, World Health Organization, Crisis