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Reimagining India’s Strategic Culture: From Endurance to Environment-Shaping
April 25 , 2025 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 80
India’s strategic culture is deeply intertwined with its civilizational history, reflecting a blend of moral philosophy, pragmatic statecraft, and enduring resilience. Unlike Chinese strategy, which is ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Active Strategizing , Capability Building , Civilizational , dharma , Emergence , Kautilya , Narrative , Optimization

The Iran Conundrum and its Implications for India
April 24 , 2025 Aishwarya Dutta
Article Views: 118
On March 15, the Trump administration launched preemptive airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, whose escalating attacks on shipping, including piracy, violence, and terrorism, have been disrupting...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hezbollah- Houthi , India , Iran relations , Iran's axis of resistance , Iran- Turkey rivalry , Nagorno-Karabakh , NATO , Nuclear deals , Ottoman- Safavid Empire , Sunni Shia , Trump Netanyahu cooperation

China’s Intentions Towards India Have Not Changed
April 24 , 2025 Jayadeva Ranade
Article Views: 126
While Chinese leaders are making statements that attempt to gloss over the developments of recent years and seek to convey that China is keen on normalising relations and that together the two can devel...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 75th anniversary , border issue , China , Civilizational power , India , PLI , Tibet Military District

South Sudan In Turmoil: A Nation in Crisis
April 23 , 2025 Dr Shambhavi Anand, Research Assistant, VIF
Article Views: 117
Context
The political situation in South Sudan has become tense after its First Vice-President Riek Machar was arrested on accusations of encouraging the militia to overrun a military base in Nasir. According to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Civil war , Economic Challenges , Ethnic Conflict , India , Peace , South Sudan , Sudan

From Sanctions to Nuclear Deterrence: Europe’s Peace Plan for Ukraine
April 22 , 2025 Dr Shreya Sinha, Research Associate, VIF
Commentary Views: 123
With almost two months behind since the start of negotiations between the United States and Russia on the war in Ukraine, Russia’s recent deadly missile attacks on Zelenskyy’s hometown Kryvyi Rih on Apr...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Coalition of the Willing , Debt Brake , European Union , France , Germany , nuclear deterrence , Peace Plan , Putin , Russia , sanctions , Trump , UK , Ukraine. European Security , Zelenskyy

AIKEYME: India- Africa Maritime Engagement Gets a Boost
April 22 , 2025 Ruchita Beri, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 136
On 13 April 2025, Tanzania’s Minister of Defence, Stergomena Lawrence Tax and India’s Minister of State for Defence, Sanjay Seth in the presence of Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi jointl...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Africa , AIKEYME , India , Indian Ocean Region , Maritime Engagement , Security

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