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West Asia Roundup - December 2019
January 16 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF
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Year 2019, in keeping with the ongoing trend of conflicts and hotspots in the region, ended in heightening tensions between US and Iran which does not portend well for 2020. Iraq has been facing series of demonstrations and consequent killing of innocent and disgruntled people by security forces.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Attack on Southern , Developments in Algeria , Iran , Islamic Ummah , Qatar , US

IBGs – Need To Survive To Fight Another Day
January 14 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
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Premise It was reported in Nov 2019, that after having tested the Integrated Battle Group (IBG) concept (explained later) both in the Western, as well as, the Eastern theatre, the Indian Army will be op...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Cold Start Doctrine , IBG , Missiles , OP PARAKARAM , PAF , PGMs , PLAAF , UAVs

Trends in Central Asia in 2019
January 14 , 2020 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
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In 2019, a major highlight of political trends in Central Asia was the steady development of intraregional relations, driven primarily by Uzbek President Shawkat Mirziyoyev’s neighbourhood-first initiat...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Economic reforms in Uzbekistan , India- Central Asia Dialogue , IS threats , political rift in Kyrgyzstan , Power transition in Kazakhstan , SCO , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan

2019 में विश्व परमाणु व्यवस्था: समीक्षा
January 14 , 2020 Dr Kapil Patil
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वर्ष 2019 के दौरान विश्व परमाणु व्यवस्था में दो महत्वपूर्ण रुझान दिखे हैं - परमाणु अस्त्रों का प्रयोग टालने के वातावरण में अस्थिरता और परमाणु शक्ति संपन्न और उससे रहित देशों के बीच परमाणु अस्त्रों में क...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Hindi , Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty , New START NPT , North Korea Nuclear missiles , START , परमाणु अस्त्र

Complicated 2019 for the International Oil Market and Trade
January 13 , 2020 Aayush Mohanty
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Introduction The effects of the United States of America’s (U.S) pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) in early 2018 had an impact on the global oil trade, which continued in 201...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : energy , Iran , Oil , US

2019: A Year of Missed Opportunities for Afghanistan
January 13 , 2020 Dr Yatharth Kachiar
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The year 2019 ended for Afghanistan on a more chaotic and disappointing note because of two major reasons: a) failure in achieving any major breakthrough in the ongoing peace process with the Taliban, s...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Ceasefire , Intra-Afghan dialogue , Peace talks , Presidential election , US-Iran escalation

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