Articles

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Overturning the Obama era JCPOA nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) in 2018, President Trump brought back the Iranian issue to centre stage of global and middle eastern politics. He firmly endorsed the Israeli and Saudi assessment that....

April 06, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , China , Iran , JCPOA , Trump , Saudi Arabia , Houthis , Hezbollah , Biden , Hamas , Ayatollah Khamenei

Changing American Perspective on Quad from Trump to Biden

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

“Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.” -Sir Walter Raleigh, 17th Century It is still too early in....

March 23, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , India , China , Russia , South China Sea , Australia , Trump , Japan , Obama , ASEAN Centrality , Biden , East China Sea

Analysing Biden’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The US has come out with an Interim National Security Strategic Guidance on 03 March 2021 that will not only form the basis for Biden administration’s National Security Strategy but also would find its reflection in the forthcoming US Budget and es....

March 08, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , US , China , Trump , NATO , Biden , Forever Wars , modernising military

Revival of the Iran Nuclear Deal: Options and Possibilities

Col Rajeev Agarwal Article

21st February is an important date in the global calendar this year and specifically for Iran and the West Asian region. On this day, Iran has declared that it will expel United Nations nuclear inspectors unless sanctions imposed on it by the US are ....

February 17, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , JCPOA , Trump , IRGC , Biden , Abraham Accords , IAEA , Iran deal

Can Biden Bring Peace to Afghanistan?

Amb Ashok Sajjanhar Article

The Joseph Biden administration declared on 23rd January, 2021, within a few days of coming to power that it will reassess the agreement reached by Donald Trump with the Taliban in February 2020. It stated that the US proposed to review whether the m....

February 16, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , US , Afghanistan , Article , India , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Trump , Taliban , Al Qaeda , Peace Deal , Ghani government , Biden

De-classified US strategy document on the Indo-Pacific

Amruta Karambelkar, Research Associate, VIF Commentary

Possible Motive

United States de-classified a document titled ‘US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific on 13th of January. The de-classified document consists of 10 pages and is likely to be only a part of the larger document. It is....

January 25, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , US , Russia , ASEAN , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Australia , Maritime Security , Trump , Japan , South Asia , Indian Ocean

West Asia – 2020 in Retrospect

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Year 2020 will go down in the history not only for the adverse impact of Covid-19 on global and regional economies, lower oil prices, budget deficits, health hazards but when the West Asia region nearly came to a catastrophic war between Iran ....

January 06, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , India , China , Russia , Trump , Saudi Arabia , Arab Spring , Turkey , Deal of the century , Netanyahu , Abraham Accords , Al Ula Summit

Sino-Indian Standoff: Can India Rely on USA?

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

The deterioration in China's relations with the USA and India have not entirely uncoincidentally been accompanied by the blossoming of ties between the latter. Nevertheless, as India looks down the barrel of a military confrontation with China, as a ....

August 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Trump , BECA , Ladakh , India-US military , Chinese espionage , alliance of democracies , Biden , Uyghurs

The Israeli-UAE Deal

Amb K P Fabian Article

On 13th August 2020, President Trump announced that he had brokered a deal between Israel and the U.A.E to normalize relations. It is rather strange that a third country should be the first to announce a deal between two other countries. Obviously, T....

August 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Palestine , Trump , Saudi Arabia , Oman , Netanyahu , UAE , annexation plans , Bahrain

China menace decoded by the USA

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

If Sino Indian relations have reached an inflexion point following China's breach of all agreements as demonstrated by their recent actions in Eastern Ladakh so too have Sino-US relations. While the latter had been under stress, since the advent of t....

August 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , India , US , China , QUAD , Trump , CCP , Covid , WTO , Huawei , ZTE , LAC , Xi Jinping dreams , Stealing data , FBI cases , Intellectual property , espionage