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VIF-RIAC Roundtable | Strategic and Economic Implications of the Ukraine Crisis

The VIF in collaboration with the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) convened a virtual roundtable discussion on the Strategic and Economic Implications of the Ukraine Crisis on 6 July 2022. The opening remarks were delivered by Dr Arvind G....

July 15, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Conferences , Russia , India-Russia , bilateral relationship , Ukraine Conflict
A Case for the USA to Embrace Strategic Clarity in the Taiwan Strait
Harshit Sharma Article

Abstract
The American policy of Strategic Ambiguity towards the “Taiwan Question” profoundly impacts stability in the Taiwan Strait. The United States of America has been following this policy to foster the maintenance of the status ....

July 15, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , USA , PRC , cross-strait relations , strategic ambiguity , ROC , Strategic Clarity
Talk on ‘Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialisation and its Afterlife’

The Vivekananda International Foundation organised a talk titled ‘Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialisation and its Afterlife’ by Professor Chen Kuan-Hsing on 20 June 2022. Prof. Chen is an academic from Taiwan, who specialises in inter-Asian cul....

July 14, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Samvad , inter-Asian , cultural studies
Tragic Departure of Abe: His Legacy Stays on Part – II
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The assassination of Japan’s youngest and longest-serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was not only a tremendous shock to Japan but to the rest of the world. This also serves a wake-up call for the Japanese government to review the security apparat....

July 14, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , QUAD , Article 9 , Yasukuni Shrine , Missile firing , collective self-defence , abduction issue , Senkaku dispute , security and policing , Abenomics.
Joe Biden's Upcoming Visit to Israel; Palestine and Saudi Arabia
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Amb. Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow at VIF analyses, "Joe Biden's Upcoming Visit to Israel; Palestine and Saudi Arabia" and discusses the possibility of a New Middle East Peace Plan; evaluates the reasons for thaw in US- Saudi Arabia ties and ....

July 14, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Israel , Joe Biden , Podcast , Naftali Bennet , Mahmoud Abbas , Mohammad bin Salman
A Tribute to Late Shinzo Abe
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

“I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason I am ready to give everything for Japan.”
- Shinzo Abe (wrote in 2012)
Shinzo Abe would go on to give his all to Japan a decade later....

July 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , Japan , Samvad , JINF , Abe , VIF
A brief for the Web page on the roundtable discussion on "Geostrategic & Economic Fall Out of Ukraine Conflict"

Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Brainstorming Session on "Geostrategic & Economic Fall Out of Ukraine Conflict" at the VIF on 11 July 2022. The welcome remarks were given by Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director VIF and the participants w....

July 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , India , Russia , Europe
Shinzo Abe: Tragic Departure of a Colossus – Part I
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The morning on 8 July began with the devastating news that the former Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, a true friend of India with whom the author had a chance to briefly interact at the India International Centre as a member in August 2007 when h....

July 11, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , NATO , Abe Shinzo , nation mourns , Yamagami , assassination , nationalist , conspiracy theories , cult controversy , motivation , religious group
Engaging Central Asia
Amb Ashok Sajjanhar Commentary

The five countries of Central Asia viz Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have been largely peaceful and stable since they attained independence on the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. There have been a few abe....

July 08, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Commentary , India , China , Russia , Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Ukraine , Tajikistan
Vimarsh on China Challenge in the Wake of the Ukraine Crisis

On 21 June 2022, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Vimarsh on the “China Challenge in the Wake of the Ukraine Crisis”. Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF, gave out introductory remarks and welcomed the speaker Amb Ashok K K....

July 08, 2022 Vimarsh , International Relations and Diplomacy , Xi Jinping , LoC , Line of Actual Control , Ukraine Crisis , India- China
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