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Taliban, Rawalpindi declared victory too soon. The game now depends on Trump’s calculations
In the quest for digitalisation, India has become an easy target for cyberattacks due to poor cybersecurity
With the Arab Gulf states hoping to renew ties with Iran, a collective-diplomacy approach has now kicked in.
The recent Arab League Summit showcased Saudi Arabia’s attempt to bring change in its foreign policy approach
With commercial drone operation just around the corner, relevant guidelines need to be introduced to ensure the smooth and safe functioning
The PLA has still to cover some gaps before it gains the confidence and warfare proficiency in any planned invasion.
The good old days of media diplomacy launched by Washington and London to justify the Iraq invasion seem to be getting over.The American and the British administration had successfully hijacked media spaces across the world to build legitimacy for the offensive on Iraq.
With growing water scarcity across many parts of the world, competition over access to this vital resource has been known to spark conflict. Following the September 2016 Uri attack in India, the government made plans to retaliate against its neighbour by exercising its right to use water of the western rivers—allocated to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty—by building dams, canals and reservoirs. This paper aims to address the legal, econ
The arrival of vaccines against Covid-19 gives hope in ending the pandemic that has claimed close to 2.84 million lives so far. However, inoculating millions of people all over the world would require the massive production of vaccines, followed by their equitable distribution. An impediment to production and distribution of vaccines is the intellectual property (IP) rights that their developers enjoy. India and South Africa have together propo
This study discusses three major mega free trade agreements (the TPP, TTIP and the RCEP) and attempts to develop a strategy for India to navigate the repercussions engendered by these groupings and thereby safeguard India?s trade and sustain its economic growth.
With roadblocks growing on global and domestic fronts, the China-Pakistan economic relationship needs reassessment
Bill Clinton had gotten a lot of things right, here is what he got wrong.
Regardless of the stasis in India’s OND, the technological changes in India’s delivery capabilities are outpacing doctrinal change
The importance of the Maritime Domain Awareness is being realised as the Bay is facing security concerns.
The Inspector Raj, expressed through the colonial, corrupt, and rent-seeking policy infrastructure, must be disassembled
For reasons to do with history and strategy, India will not abandon Russia.
The surge of Myanmarese refugees in Thailand has made the need to reform the latter’s national refugee policy more pronounced
The Indian municipal financial pie is woefully narrow, and a large unfunded mandate is the city’s sad fate.
The dichotomy in India-China relations — on the one hand troops engaged in a two-month long stare-down, and on the other agreeing to change various
Russia is now the world’s most heavily sanctioned country, with unprecedented punitive action targeting its energy exports, central bank, and other sectors. Given Russia’s economic resilience amid such economic restrictions and India’s dependence on Russia for its defence and energy requirements, this issue brief highlights the economic rationale for New Delhi to maintain existing trade ties with Moscow despite continued geopolitical pressu
The definition of international relations in the next decade remains an important aspect feeding uncertainty about how the value chains reshuffling wi
On top of the violence and upheaval of Partition, the integration of more than 550 princely states, and a war with Pakistan over Kashmir, the British
Chinese advocacy for economic interdependence, owing to its centrality in global supply chains, could be met with a renewed transatlantic consensus ce
Human civilisation is at a new moment of transition across social norms, economics, governance, and the environment, and is facing the dawn of a new era of inter-planetary human migration (to Mars). In the future, historians will look to the first half of the 21st century to tell the story of how these changes started and unfolded through five domains of conflict. These domains touch on the unravelling of governance structures in need of
With the AI Act, the EU has taken the first steps towards using and developing AI in a responsible manner
Lithuania’s recent acknowledgement of Taiwan provides the EU with an opportunity to stand up to China’s bullying tactics
The CAI — despite Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that it will help the EU defend multilateralism — is not multilateral at all. It is a bilateral d
Is the use of constitutional means to secure ruling in perpetuity a new normal in west Africa?
SCO members need to take a two-track approach to make it a successful regional grouping. At the macro level, it must forge a common vision and mutual trust with similar groupings such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization. At a micro level, bilateral and regional issues between member states need to be addressed.
The G20 will need to deliver on its collaborative commitment to accelerate the investment momentum in our agri-food systems in order to build sustaina
Research suggests that higher women’s participation in global value chains will prove to be economically beneficial for the world.
Global supply chains are being restructured to achieve distinct geopolitical goals, given the strategic vulnerability of such networks due to being controlled by a few nations. Countries that are prominent sourcing hubs for some supply chains could potentially ‘weaponise’ their economic influence for larger geopolitical gains. This brief argues that although multiple global efforts have been initiated to address such threats, efforts
The idea was to capture the different dimensions of the war on terror as has been perceived and to locate the war in the larger geo political context in order to appreciate and understand the consequences, according to Dr Ashley Tellis, a well-known senior US policy analyst.
There has rarely been a period in modern history, when the world has not been confronted with terrorism; somewhere or the other, in some form or another, for some reason or the other. As a mean of coercion through violence, terrorism ebbs and flows and keeps undergoing many mutations.
