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On the 11th of October 2021, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) as part of its Vimarsh Dialogue series organised a presentation by Shri Jayant Misra, IRS (Retd) and former Chairman of the Settlement Commission, on India’s Drug Challenge....

October 29, 2021 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Drug Challenge , drug trafficking , NPS

Border Management: Challenges and Opportunites

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

(The following is the updated version of Keynote Address delivered by the Director VIF at Security and Policy Initiatves (SAPI)Conference on 26th October 2021) Borderlands are subject to diverse influences. The peripheries of a country are....

October 28, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security , Article , Pakistan , North East , Borders , Tibet , Connectivity , coastal borders , Insurgencies , Migrations

Repositioning National Cadet Corps to Drive Youth Development and Social Change

… time and national resources deployed for mentoring and guiding the present generation of youth through the revamped NCC’s stables will definitely start yielding much larger outcomes …....

October 25, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , NCC in nation building , NCC , NCC modernisation , Character-building of youth , Dividends of young India , Restructure of NCC curricula , Building a strong nationhood

India Ahead of 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26)

Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF Article

Introduction to COP 26

2021 is a crucial year for global climate change negotiations as the much awaited 26th UN Climate Change Conference is scheduled to be held from 31st October till 12th of November in Glasgow, United Kingdom. This Su....

October 18, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , Climate Change , renewable energy , technologies , Carbon emissions , Net zero , Greenhouse gases , Paris Accord

Implications of China’s Hydro-Hegemony on River Yarlung Tsangpo: Another Lever of China’s Expansionist Tactics into India’s East

PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF

On 11 March 2021, China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, endorsed a plan to build a ‘super dam’ on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southeastern Tibet. According to Chinese media reports, the dam will have an ins....

October 12, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , China’s water hegemony , Brahmaputra as a life-line , Rights of lower riparian’s , Dangers of ecological interference , Security of Eastern India

Defence Exports: Challenges, Opportunities and Imperatives

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Premise

This work is based on the premise that the current level of defence exports in India is well short of its stipulated targets and there is a need for revamping the same.

Layout

The analysis is laid out as under:- ....

October 06, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence Exports , DPEPP 2020 , India’s export targets , Export promotion , boosting defence exports

पूर्वी लद्दाख-फिक्सिंग,“बफर क्षेत्र में गश्ती नहीं”!

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

भारतीय सेना/आईटीबीपी एवं चीनी सेना (पीपुल्स लिबरेशन आर्मी/पीएलए) के बीच एलएसी (वास्तविक नियंत्�....

September 24, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , पीएलए। एलएसी। पैंगोंग। त्सो। ऑक्साईचिन। बफर जोन। सीबीएम। चुशुल-मोल्डो। गोगरा। पेट्रोलिंग। राष्ट्रीय राइफल्स।

Tracking the Money Trail: Islamic Terror Groups in South Asia

South Asia has been plagued by Islamic terrorism for decades. An increasingly hostile political environment and the prolonged conflict in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir has enabled terror organisations to thrive because of the complicity o....

September 15, 2021 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Terrorism , Bangladesh , Terror Financing , Neighbourhood studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Af-Pak region , International Security

Deterrence Theory– Is it Applicable in Cyber Domain?

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… effective cyber deterrence policies require regular, sustained disruption of malicious cyber activity. Such disruption can be technical, legal, logistical, financial, diplomatic, and, in some extreme cases, kinetic. Increasing the scope, scale an....

September 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Deterrence in cyberspace , Ddeterrence theories , Powers in cyber arena , Cyber attack attribution , Principles of cyber deterrence