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Chennai Flood Disaster Catastrophe of December 2015-Are you listening?
R. K. Bhandari

The worst is over and the city of Chennai is getting back to normalcy after the unprecedented flood catastrophe of December 2015. The whole country applauds the exceptional grit and grace with which the citizens of Chennai fought the fury of the floo....

December 17, 2015 Governance and Political Studies , Chennai Flood , Disaster
Myanmar: Post Elections Scenario and Task before Aung San Suu Kyi
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Even though the Aung San Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy (NLD) won the November parliamentary elections with a thumping majority questions regarding smooth transition of power are being asked. Will the military dominated government of Presi....

December 10, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar
Modi-Obama Meet in Paris: Taking stock of India-US Relations
Dr Harinder Sekhon

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama met in Paris on the sidelines of the crucial climate change conference, it was their sixth bilateral meeting in a little over one year, a very impressive tally by any reckoning. On Clima....

December 09, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , USA , Modi-Obama , US-India Relation
From Buddhism to Bollywood - The Investment in Soft Power
Uma Sudhindra

As a gross generalisation, three factors shape the foreign policy of most countries: history, geography and capability. And each of these has decisively influenced Indian foreign policy, in different ways at different times. India’s power of attrac....

December 08, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Buddhism , Soft Power , Bollywood
What to expect from Heart of Asia Conference
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Few people are aware why Foreign Minister (FM) Sushma Swaraj is likely to be going to Islamabad on 9 Dec 2015. Indeed it’s a follow up to the Prime Minister’sbrief chat with Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Prime Minister during the Climate Conference ....

December 08, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Pakistan , Asia Conference , Indo Pakistan
Military modernisation in China: its implications
Jayadeva Ranade

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public announcement downsizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the grand military parade on September 3, 2015, was a major event. It signalled that the final stages of reform and reorganization of the PLA woul....

December 07, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Military Affairs , China , military modernisation , PLA
Smart Cities- Meeting the Managerial and Policy Challenge of Urbanization in India
Devyani Bhushan

Fulfilling the commitment made in the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to build- “100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure - adhering to concepts like sustainability…”, Prime Minister Narend....

December 07, 2015 Governance and Political Studies , India , Smart Cities , Urbanization , AMRUT
Interaction with TN Ninan, author of ‘Turn of the Tortoise’

While the jury may still be out debating whether India’s economy has really taken off under the new political dispensation in New Delhi, members of the VIF faculty, General NC Vij, Director VIF, Amb PP Shukla, Adm KK Nayyar, among others, engaged T....

December 04, 2015 Economic Studies , GDP , India’s economy , inetraction , Turn of the Tortoise
Malabar-2015: Towards collective security in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Ramanand Garge

The strategically significant Joint India-US Naval exercise MALABAR-2015, hosted by India between October 14 and 21, 2015, conducted in the Bay of Bengal, in many ways, illustrates the growing multi-faceted military cooperation between India a....

December 04, 2015 Defence , Indo-Pacific , Malabar , India-US Naval Exercise
Workshop on 'Public-Private Partnership in Countering Online Radicalization and Recruitment to Violence'

Vivekananda International Foundation in collaboration with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) of the University of Maryland, US Embassy and Facebook organised on November 17-18, 2015, a two-day works....

November 27, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , World war , radicalization , ISIS , ISIL , Social Media , Recruitment to Violence , Civil Society
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