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Nuclear talks and Geopolitical Risk in East Asia
December 14 , 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
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Not everything is going well in the security arena in the Northeast Asian region as the security scenario is getting fragile at a faster rate. As North Korea continue to advance towards more sophisticat...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : geopolitical risk , KINU survey , nuclear extended deterrence , Taiwan card , Taiwan Strait , Washington Declaration

Venezuela-Guyana Standoff-another possible flash point in Latin America
December 13 , 2023 Amb JK Tripathi
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On Sunday, 3rd December, Venezuela declared, through a five- question referendum, that the Essequibo province of its eastern neighbour Guyana belonged to Venezuela following which the Venezuelan parliam...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Guyana , Maduro , Oil , Territory dispute , US

The Magic of MANPADS- Making Sense of Indo-Russian Deal
December 12 , 2023 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
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The Driver On 14 Nov 2023, the Russian media announced inking an arms deal with India which was a little different from the usual defence procurement cases. This deal is anchored on two provisions; the ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : the-magic-of-manpads-making-sense-of-indo-russian-deal

Legal Aspects of General Electric and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited F414 Engines Deal
December 11 , 2023 Kavya R. Krishnan
Article Views: 2777
Introduction
In a path-breaking defence deal, US’s General Electric (GE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on 22nd June 2023, to co-produce F414 engines for Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk2.

Technological and Scientific Studies, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Defence , HAL , Jet Engines , US export laws , US relations

Pathways to World War III
December 8 , 2023 Sunil Yadav, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 3003
Understanding ‘World War’
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. The Oxford English Dictionary cited the first known usage in the English language to a Scottish newspaper

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Climate Change , Cold War , Geo-Political Faultlines , Middle East , Nuclear War , US-China , WMD , World War III

Interregnum before a new world order
December 8 , 2023 Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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About 90 years ago, in the wake of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe, the Italian politician-philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote of the crisis in world affairs: “The old is dying and ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Cold War politics , Great Depression , New World Order

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