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Managing the Rise of China and its Collusion with Pakistan
June 7 , 2016 Brig Gurmeet Kanwal
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The foremost challenge to working to ensure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific will be to manage the rise of a militarily assertive China that is seeking to achieve a ‘favourable strategic posture’...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India-US strategic partnership , Indo-Pacific , Pakistan - China Relation

Difficult Times of The Congress Party
June 6 , 2016 Dr A Surya Prakash
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Two facts are now confirmed after the latest round of assembly elections. One, the shrinking base of India’s grand old party – The Congress – and two, the growing geographical spread of its most aggres...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Bharatiya Janata Party , BJP , Congress Party , Indian Politics

Operation Breaking Terrorism and the Implications
June 6 , 2016 Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam
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In what is considered the biggest military assault against Daesh, the Iraqi army, with back up from the United States (US)-led air coalition and Iran-backed Shiite militias, recently began its operation...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

असम में मिली जीत से बीजेपी को नार्थ-ईस्ट में बढ़त बनाने में मिलेगी मदद
June 6 , 2016 Nitin A Gokhale
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भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा), असम की राजनीति में अबतक हाशिये पर रही थी, लेकिन 2014 के लोकसभा चुनाव में इसके शानदार प्रदर्शन ने दशकों से अभेद्य समझे जानेवाले नार्थ-ईस्ट के इस किले में सेंध लगायी और नार्थ-ई...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi

Consolidating Diplomacy: The Modi Round Robin
June 5 , 2016 Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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In military parlance successful operations are always conducted with a concept of consolidating gains and progressing thereafter, unless of course it’s a blitzkrieg. In the latter case also the spectacu...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India’s foreign policy , modi

Vietnam’s Flexible Foreign & Security Policies to Protect its Interests in South China Sea
June 3 , 2016 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
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Nearly 14 years after it signed the ‘Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea’ (DOC) with ASEAN countries--it also signed in October 2003--the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Sou...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN countries , China , Security Policies , South China Sea

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