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Myanmar Round Up: December 2019
January 29 , 2020 Aakriti Vinayak Jaideep Chanda
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s spirited though controversial visit to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague, to defend her nation, its armed forces and its conduct leading to the Rohingya Crisis, ...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Arakan army , ICJ verdict , Myanmar , Neighbourhood studies , Peace , Rohingya issue

नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनयम 2019 पर कुछ विचार
January 28 , 2020 Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes
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जहां तक मुझे समझ आता है, यह कानून उप महाद्वीप के बंटवारे से पैदा हुई अशांति और भ्रम को खत्म करता है।

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : CAA , Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 , Hindi , Partition , Refugee camps , नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनयम 2019

Ukranian Tragedy - The Bigger Question
January 28 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
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This article argues that that the downing of the Ukrainian civil airliner by an Iranian missile on 08 Jan 2020 that took 176 innocent lives is an incident that goes far beyond than ‘just a human error’; a misjudgement etc.It is a fratricide, a word which the dictionary defines as an ‘act of killing one’s own brother, sister or relatives or in a civil war, killing fellow countrymen’.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : fratricide , human error , IRGC , missile strike , Quds Force , Ukrainian aircraft

Libya – the Unfortunate Domain of International Competition: Berlin and Beyond
January 27 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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Soon it will be almost a decade of destruction in Libya which in many ways could be the worst extension of the four decades of Gaddafi’s autocratic rule. On February 17, 2011 ecstatic Libyans had jubila...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Erdogan , General Haftar , GNA , Libya , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Tobruk , Tripoli , UNSMIL

Xi Hajoor ! Old Wine in the ‘New Era’ for Myanmar
January 22 , 2020 Jaideep Chanda
Article Views: 4392
Myanmar effectively boarded the BRI when Aung San Suu Kyi attended the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in May 2017. President Xi Jinping even acknowledged Myanmar in the context of the BRI in his speech at the Forum.

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Documents Signed , Hearts and Minds Investments , New Era , Xi Hajoor! , Xi Jinping visits Myanmar

Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: Review of Year 2019 and Projections for 2020
January 22 , 2020 Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF
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The year 2019 had significant developments in global terrorism. The review covers the important activities of terrorism and counter-terrorism (CT) around the globe. There have been ongoing conflicts in ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Tags : Afghanistan , al-Qaeda , al-Qaida , Counter-terrorism , India , IslamicState , national security , Pakistan , Srilanka , Terrorism , UnitedKingdom

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