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Reconciliation is the Way Forward for Durable Conflict Resolution in the Northeast

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.) Article

Introduction

Conflict settlement is a significant achievement for a state to put an end to a violent protracted armed engagement. In fact, Johan Galtung gave new idea of concept of peace as negative peace that is absence of violence but i....

March 18, 2021 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Conflict Resolution , Communication , Kuki , Naga Tribes , Naga Peace Accord , Reconciliation

Syrian Unrest: A Decade of Misery for Syrians

Amb VP Haran Article

18th March 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the commencement of unrest in Syria. The arrest and ill treatment of 15 schoolboys in Darra, a town on the border with Jordan led to about 3000 people holding a demonstration after Friday prayers, demandi....

March 17, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , US , UNSC , Arab Spring , Turkey , Golan Heights , Bashar al Assad , Gulf States , Kurds

भूआर्थिक रणनीति की रूपरेखा

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

सहस्राब्दियों से राष्ट्र-राज्य ने शक्ति की अपनी राजनीति में आर्थिक उपकरणों का बेधड़क उपयोग कि�....

March 16, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , China , Article , भारत। चीन। हिंद-प्रशांत क्षेत्र। वैश्वीकरण। आरसीईपी। भूआर्थिकी। उदारीकरण। संशोधनवाद। यूएसटीआर। घरेलू बाजार। टिक टॉक।

Japan-South Korea Entente Vital for Peaceful Indo-Pacific

Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal Article

The Indo-Pacific region has gradually assumed a centrality in the global strategic balance for peace and security. The stability and tranquility of the four decades after the conclusion of the Vietnam War is being challenged by an aggressive China. ....

March 16, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , US , China , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Japan , Biden

World’s Options on Myanmar Limited

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

A little over a month has passed since Myanmar’s army chief Min Aung Hlaing shocked the world by seizing power on 1 February from the democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD), and arrested the country’s civilian leader Aung San ....

March 15, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , ASEAN , Tatmadaw , Aung San Suu Kyi , Act East Policy , Joe Biden , NLD , Neighbour First , junta , South Block , Min Aung Hlaing , Antonio Guterres , Milk Tea Alliance , ASEAN’s centrality

India’s Cyber Deterrence Against China

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

Cyber Threats from China: Chinese Offensive Capabilities and Modus Operandi

China raised cyber war units way back in 2003¹. Major objectives of these units has been cyber surveillance, manipulating network data, disseminating p....

March 12, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Cyber Security , Article , Cyber Deterrence , Cyber war , Media War , ICT Adaption , Cyber Weapons

सकारात्मक दृष्टिकोण के साथ वियतनाम की 13वीं नेशनल पार्टी कांग्रेस का समापन

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

वैश्विक महामारी कोरोना का अचानक प्रकोप हो जाने से कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी ऑफ वियतनाम (सीपीवी) की 13वीं....

March 12, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , दक्षिण चीन सागर। कोरोना वायरस। गुयेन फु त्रुंग। पार्टी कांग्रेस। प्रणय वर्मा। गुयेन थी नगन। इकोनामी ब्लूप्रिंट। फॉक्स एंड टेक्नोलॉजी को लिमिटेड। सैमसंग इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स को. एंड इंटेल क्रॉप।

The Indo-Pacific: A Pause in the Game

Vice Admiral Anil Chopra Article

The State of Play

As a Covid-wounded global community steps gingerly into 2021, a year ‘trumpeting’ a change of guard in the US, the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and an ongoing military stand-off between India and Chi....

March 10, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , China , Article , India , US , China , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Australia , Japan , Biden , Suga

हालिया प्रदर्शनों में हाईब्रिड युद्ध का उपक्रम

Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

21वीं सदी में, परम्परागत युद्धों का दौर बीत गया है। उसके नये-नये रूपों जैसे कम घनत्व वाले युद्धों,....

March 06, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article

Afghanistan: Status of Doha Agreement and the Way Forward

Amb Amar Sinha Article

To mark one year of the Doha Agreement between the US and the Taliban, signed on 29 February 2020 in Doha, the Vivekananda International Foundation in collaboration with a prominent Kabul based think tank, Afghans Institute for Strategic St....

March 04, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , India , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Kabul , NATO , Shia , ANDSF , Doha Agreement , Hanafi , US options