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Interaction with Mr. Ribal Al-Assad on ‘Syria and the Arab Spring’

At an interaction with eminent strategic experts held at VIF on Feb 08, 2011, Mr. Ribal al Assad, Chairman of the Organization for Democracy and Freedom in Syria, based in London, and son of the former Syrian leader Rifat al Assad, presently campaign....

February 13, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Syria , Arab Spring , UN resolution
Interaction on 'Taiwan - Post Election Scenario'

H.E. Mr. Wenchyi Ong, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre, New Delhi, held an informal interaction on Feb 07, 2012 with a panel of eminent strategic experts at VIF. The interaction was primarily focused on the post election scenario i....

February 09, 2012 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Conferences , Taiwan , One China policy , Taiwan - Post Election Scenario , Look East Policy
Towards A Stable Afghanistan: The Way Forward

(A report of Joint Working Group of Vivekananda International Foundation and RUSI, the UK) The experts from the two think tanks met in New Delhi and London during October and November 2011 to deliberate on peace and stability in Afghanistan....

January 20, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Military Affairs
China’s Plans for Capturing the High Ground in Space
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

China has been regularly coming out with white papers in many areas of its endeavour including defence and space activities. Promoting transparency is claimed to be one of the main goals of such an exercise. But largely such papers hide more and reve....

January 13, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
The Strongman Cracks
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The Russian Constitution allows a president only two consecutive terms in power. Vladimir Putin was President from 2000 to 2008. Highly popular for having restored the political and economic authority of the state as well as national self-respect aft....

January 10, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy
Japanese Prime Minister’s State Visit To India
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The state visit to India of Japanese Prime Minister Noda for the annual Prime Ministerial Summit on December 27-28, 2011 has placed India-Japan ties on a firm upward spiral. Following the dip in relations as a result of adverse Japanese reactions to ....

January 03, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy
Pursue an Activist Policy, Reaching out to All Players
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The US intent to draw down its forces from Afghanistan beginning July 2011 has been articulated on several occasions since President Barack Obama’s address at West Point on 1 December 2009. In this address he had justified the 30,000 US troop surge....

January 02, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Afghanistan
Give Foreign Policy More Coherence in 2012
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The challenges facing Indian diplomacy do not change from one calendar year to the next. The opportunities and problems of 2011 will spill over into 2012 as they are not defined by calendar years. The end of the year provides, nonetheless, an occasio....

December 28, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
Don’t Write off Putin Just Yet
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Western criticism of the results of the December 4 parliamentary elections in Russia is not surprising. The West’s fued with Russia’s democracy goes back to Putin’s ascendancy to power in 2000. It is Russia’s veering away under him from globa....

December 13, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
DANGEROUS LIASIONS : Pakistan-China nexus poses strategic threat to India
Amb Kanwal Sibal

It is more practical to limit the review of India’s security mainly to the classic concept of a nations’s security, not its extended definition given today that includes energy, food, water etc. With the end of the Cold War and the lowering of t....

December 09, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
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