Articles

Geopolitical mires of 2022 and the way forward for India

P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The challenge for India and other developing nations is to find an optimal adjustment to a segmented globalisation. 2022 revealed some interesting truths about today’s world order. As the dominant superpower confronts the challenge from a....

January 05, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , Globalisation , economic welfare , industrialised societies

Ukraine: As history returns to haunt the world

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

In the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that with the liberal democracy and the free market economy of the West finally emerging as a one-size-fits-all model for all nations, all conflicts that were the source of history had ended. That becam....

March 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Globalisation , NATO , Ukraine , America , Vladimir Putin

Has a Cold War Started between U.S. and China?

Amb K P Fabian Article

China-U.S. relations are deteriorating at a rapid pace and some scholars have wondered whether we are witnessing the beginnings of Cold War 2 between the two biggest economies? On 21st July 2020, the U.S. State Department ordered that Chinese C....

August 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Article , US , China , Taiwan , Trump , Japan , Globalisation , COVID-19 , UN Security Council , Hong Kong , Cold War , Nixon

Global Impact of Covid-19 Crisis

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Covid-19 is the first full-blown crisis of a hyper-connected world. It arose as the local outbreak in China at Wuhan city, and within a few weeks, it had spread all across the world. More than a million Corona positive cases have been noticed and mor....

April 12, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , economy , Globalisation , COVID-19 , IMF , Multilateralism , Helpless West , US-China rivalry , capitalism , Global supply chains , Non--traditional security

Brexit And End of Globalisation

Prof R Vaidyanathan

When Britain voted to leave the European Union ( called British Exit or Brexit) the Dutch Prime minister Mark Rutte said “England has collapsed politically, constitutionally and economically.” He wasn't wrong. The vote by Britain has also impacte....

July 25, 2016 Economic Studies , European Union , Brexit , England , Globalisation