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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

Central Asia: Three Decades of Developments

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Central Asia, located between the East and the West has always been been at the centre of power struggle between major powers such as Russia, China, US and West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leaders of these independent republics, adop....

March 17, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , India , China , Russia , SCO , INSTC , Chabahar Port , Central Asia , Geopolitics , EAEU , CSTO , Podcast , three decades of collapse of Soviet Union

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

US Foreign Policy under Joe Biden

Amb Arun K Singh, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On March 3rd, the new Biden administration released an Interim National Security Strategic Guidance to convey how the US would engage with the world as it begins its work on the National Security Strategy. As the new administration takes such first s....

March 15, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , US Foreign Policy , US-India Relations , Biden Administration , Podcast , Interim National Security Strategic Guidance , US-Afghanistan

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

The Leadership Summit will Consolidate the Quad

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The historic leadership summit of the Quad counties held on 12th March 2021 was a milestone in the evolution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue which was set up back in 2007 and revived in 2017. Hosted by US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Mini....

March 15, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , US , Commentary , China , modi , ASEAN , Indo-Pacific , Biden , Suga , Morrison , Quad summit , Spirit of quad

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