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Us-Pak Nuke Deal: Blockbuster or Merely Block and Bluster
Sushant Sareen

A year or so before the US-Pakistan relations went horribly wrong in 2011 – the Osama raid, bombing of 26 Pakistani soldiers, the Raymond Davis affair – the two sides had made an effort to have a conversation on the possibility of a civilian nucl....

October 23, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Us-Pak , Strategic Dialogue , USA -Pakistan Relation
Third India-Africa Forum Summit: A Curtain Raiser

A Round-Table discussion on the forthcoming ‘India-Africa Forum Summit’ scheduled in New Delhi from 26-29 October 2015 was held at the VIF on 12 Oct 2015. The gathering was briefed by a panel of 3 experts on Africa, Ambassador R. Rajagopalan, Amb....

October 23, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Seminars , IMF , WTO , United Nations , India-Africa Forum Summit , Agenda-2063
Rising Tensions in the South China Sea
Commodore Gopal Suri

The South China Sea has been an area of friction for the last couple of decades with regular flare ups between states that ring this area due to competing territorial and sovereignty claims. The Spratly Islands have often been in the news with contes....

October 21, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , South China Sea , Vietnam
Pok: Is The Worm Finally Turning?
Sushant Sareen

Images of the simmering situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir broadcast on Indian TV channels appear to have shaken the Indian media, the army of analysts, and perhaps even the government of India out of their decades long slumber over a part of Ind....

October 21, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , POK , Jammu and Kashmir , Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
India, Vietnam, ASEAN Cooperation in Public Security and National Defence
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

“Our defence cooperation with Vietnam is among our most important ones. India remains committed to the modernization of Vietnam’s defence and security forces.”

---PM Narendra Modi, October 2014

Overvi....

October 16, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , India , ASEAN , Vietnam , national defence
UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka- An Assessment
Anushree Ghisad

After a delay of nearly six months, the 268-page long report of the UNHCR on alleged ‘war crimes’ in Sri Lanka was released during the ongoing thirtieth session of the Commission. Broadly, the report deals with human rights violations during the ....

October 16, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka , UNHRC , LTTE
Bangladesh - Politics of Confrontation: Political Deadlock
Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji

Bangladesh’s tryst with democracy began a new chapter in the nation’s history when the newly independent nation adopted its first Constitution in 1972 with the tenets of nationalism, democracy, socialism and secularism. The then political environ....

October 14, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , democracy , Bangladesh , Secularism , Socialism , Political Violence
Low Cunning in Cloak of High Diplomacy
Sushant Sareen

Even before Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN General Assembly, the Pakistanis had let it be known that he would be bad-mouthing India on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. There was, therefore, no real surprise in India when Nawaz Sharif raked up the Kashm....

October 13, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
AUSINDEX – Mid-Power Bonhomie in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Ramanand Garge

Defence and economic cooperation are two prominent and defining aspects of any bilateral relationship in today’s world. While evaluating the growing bilateral relationship between India and Australia, it is heartening to note that in both these are....

October 09, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy
The Paralysis over Syria
Sarosh Bana

The refugee crisis cannot be resolved without tackling Syria’s conflict There is turbulence in the Eurozone and its disquieting genesis lies in the protracted civil war in Syria, some 1,200 km away to the east. As Europe’s demog....

October 09, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy
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