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Putin-Trump Summit: Untangling the Knots
July 15 , 2018 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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Ensuring Peace is a global good and a responsibility of all countries and stake holders. But it is more so of the Hyper and Super powers, who always indulge in the political chess games and move their rooks adroitly and sometimes bluntly

US, Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Helsinki Summit , Trump-Putin meeting

Samvad: the Fourth Symposium held in Tokyo - A Report
July 13 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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In 2015, Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Abe of Japan had mooted a unique idea of a holding a regular dialogue on ‘Samvad’ amongst Asians to discuss conflict avoidance, and philosophical and cult...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Conflict Avoidance , Samvad

A Significant Visit from the Land of the ‘Princess of Ayodhya’
July 13 , 2018 Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal
Commentary Views: 5242
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in paid a highly significant visit to India on 8-11 July 2018 to cement his ‘New Southern Policy’ of increased focus on India and ASEAN countries. President Moon repeatedly said that his administration

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India-South Korea relations , South Korean President’s visit

Bangladesh: Demand for Elections under Caretaker Government
July 13 , 2018 Dr Sreeradha Datta
Article Views: 5206
Election times are quintessentially interesting, more so when some of the South Asian countries are involved. The element of unpredictability and host of other varied considerations surrounding any election in the region, makes these events an analysts delight to piece together the various issues

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh caretaker government , Bangladesh elections

Pakistan on Financial Action Task Force ‘Grey List’
July 12 , 2018 Shruti Punia
Commentary Views: 3228
After a long period of dormancy Pakistan finally enters the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) list which comes as no rude awakening to either of its neighbours, India as well as China. The FATF took the imminent decision to place Pakistan

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Financing Terrorism , Grey-list FATF

Deterrence Failure or Lasting Peace, the Korean Game’s Up for Grabs
July 11 , 2018 Pinaki Bhattacharya
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James Clapper, former director of national intelligence of the Barack Obama administration – otherwise a severe critic of the US President Donald J Trump’s various policies - recalled in a 19 May 2018 article for the New York Times

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Denuclearisation of Korea , Trump-Kim Summit

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