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Feb 14, 2020

India’s cultural battle with China in Israel

While India and Israel share extensive cultural exchanges, China has adopted a different strategy to ‘woo’ Israelis all together.

The China story: Emerging public diplomacy actors

China Foreign Policy

Feb 04, 2020

The China story: Emerging public diplomacy actors

Standing at a key juncture in a historical rise, China needs to show the appeal of its ideas and establish deep mutual understanding with the world.

Chenchen Chen

Xi’s Myanmar visit and China’s Regional Diplomacy

International Affairs | Indian Foreign Policy | Great Power Dynamics | China Foreign Policy

Jan 16, 2020

Xi’s Myanmar visit and China’s Regional Diplomacy

K. Yhome

अफ्रीकी देशों में भारत की आर्थिक कूटनीति कितनी कारगर?

Economic Diplomacy

Dec 13, 2019

अफ्रीकी देशों में भारत की आर्थिक कूटनीति कितनी कारगर?

भारतीय कर्ज़ से भारत की साख को प्राप्तकर्ता देशों में बढ�

Malancha Chakrabarty

Chinese public diplomacy in South Asia and Central Asia

Jan 01, 1970

Indian Foreign Policy | Great Power Dynamics | Economic Diplomacy

Dec 02, 2019

Indian economic diplomacy’s new edge

Harsh V. Pant

India’s diplomacy to counter terror: Multilateral forums need regional success first

Neighbourhood | Indian Foreign Policy | Terrorism | Multilateralism

Nov 28, 2019

India’s diplomacy to counter terror: Multilateral forums need regional success first

Kabir Taneja

India’s development cooperation – are we getting it right?

International Affairs | Indian Foreign Policy | Economic Diplomacy

Nov 22, 2019

India’s development cooperation – are we getting it right?

Malancha Chakrabarty

Mutually Assured Diplomacy: Governance, ‘unpeace’ and diplomacy in cyberspace

Media and Internet | Cyber Security | Internet Governance | Cyber and Technology

Oct 19, 2019

Mutually Assured Diplomacy: Governance, ‘unpeace’ and diplomacy in cyberspace

Those working on the diplomatic challenges of cyberspace stability and internet governance have their work cut out.

Dennis Broeders

Towards a more meaningful Indo–US energy partnership

Energy | Energy Security | Oil, Gas and Renewables

Oct 10, 2019

Towards a more meaningful Indo–US energy partnership

Given the United States’ profile of being a major player as a producer, lead technologist and now one of the prominent suppliers of energy, the enha

Sanket Sudhir Kulkarni

India’s two-front war challenge: The problem of choice, scenarios and uncertainty

Neighbourhood | Defence and Security | Indian Defence

Oct 10, 2019

India’s two-front war challenge: The problem of choice, scenarios and uncertainty

Since war is a contest between animate entities, how is it possible for India to escape the realities of confrontation with both Pakistan and China?

Kartik Bommakanti

Space

Sep 12, 2019

Sky is not the limit in Asia: How China and India are shaping space diplomacy

A new space race is indeed warming up Asia, as China and India rapidly scale up their space programmes and build ties with the developing world.

Kalpit A Mankikar

The rising India on the rise in China’s diplomacy

International Affairs | Great Power Dynamics

Jul 18, 2019

The rising India on the rise in China’s diplomacy

‘Neighbourhood diplomacy’ has been prioritised for a long time by China, manifesting in the famous framework that big powers are the key; the peri

India, UK and the dawn of the Afro-Asian Century

Sustainable Development | Development Partnerships

Jul 04, 2019

India, UK and the dawn of the Afro-Asian Century

Samir Saran | Aastha Kaul

India’s soft power advantage in the great game of Afghanistan

Indian Foreign Policy

Jul 01, 2019

India’s soft power advantage in the great game of Afghanistan

Ideologically and strategically, India seems to be utilising its soft powers better than Pakistan in dealing with their resourceful neighbour, Afghani

Abe’s difficult role in the US-Iran tangle

International Affairs

Jun 21, 2019

Abe’s difficult role in the US-Iran tangle

In trying to maintain a strategic alliance with the US and the Middle East, Japan seems to be standing at a crossroad.

| K. V. Kesavan | Simran Walia

Beyond the South Asia-centric notion of neighbourhood

Neighbourhood | Indian Foreign Policy

May 30, 2019

Beyond the South Asia-centric notion of neighbourhood

As India’s interests move beyond its borders, the fixation with South Asia-centric notion of neighbourhood can no longer serve as a useful analytica

| K. Yhome

Local politics in control, Bangladesh tackles Islamist militancy and diplomacy at national level

Neighbourhood

May 18, 2019

Local politics in control, Bangladesh tackles Islamist militancy and diplomacy at national level

| Syed Badrul Ahsan

India should steward digital health - globally

Healthcare

May 16, 2019

India should steward digital health - globally

India must use digital health for diplomacy through south-south collaboration.

| Rajendra Pratap Gupta

Anti-Trumpism mires the America China debate

China Foreign Policy | US Foreign Policy

May 15, 2019

Anti-Trumpism mires the America China debate

| Seema Sirohi

Economic Diplomacy

Apr 02, 2019

सटीक व्यापार कूटनीति पर फोकस करे भारत

युद्ध को छोड़ कोई भी मुद्दा विभिन्‍न देशों और आर्थिक समू�

Chitra Subramaniam

American retrenchment and the Chinese advantage

China Foreign Policy | US Foreign Policy

Feb 06, 2019

American retrenchment and the Chinese advantage

While America firmly takes steps to retreat into its own sphere of influence, it leaves the world with a sizable vacuum to fill. China is one of the c

Arjan de Haan

India’s balancing act on Hamas is outdated diplomacy

United Nations

Dec 11, 2018

India’s balancing act on Hamas is outdated diplomacy

By abstaining from the UN vote on condemning Hamas’ terrorism, the Modi government has sent a wrong message that India is tolerant towards terror in

Aarti Tikoo Singh

Debt-trap diplomacy: Faultlines in China’s belt and road initiative

Great Power Dynamics | China Foreign Policy

Nov 28, 2018

Debt-trap diplomacy: Faultlines in China’s belt and road initiative

Kriti M. Shah

Cam Ranh port: A lever in Vietnam’s naval diplomacy

Maritime Infrastructure | SLOCs

Oct 06, 2018

Cam Ranh port: A lever in Vietnam’s naval diplomacy

Theoretically, sheer naval presence is a form of naval diplomacy that achieves multiple goals such as expressing intent, reassuring partners and deter

Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak

Little red dot diplomacy: Singapore’s increasing geopolitical prominence

International Affairs | Great Power Dynamics

Aug 28, 2018

Little red dot diplomacy: Singapore’s increasing geopolitical prominence

Akshobh Giridharadas

India needs a new strategy to survive Trump’s trade war

Indian Foreign Policy | US Foreign Policy | Economic Diplomacy

Jun 21, 2018

India needs a new strategy to survive Trump’s trade war

Sandip Sen

Free trade a win-win for all: Making comparative advantage work

Indian Foreign Policy | China Foreign Policy | Economic Diplomacy

Jun 08, 2018

Free trade a win-win for all: Making comparative advantage work

Renita D'souza

The Sun rises in the East: Asia’s increasing influence in Africa

International Trade and Investment

May 30, 2018

The Sun rises in the East: Asia’s increasing influence in Africa

As Africa begins to re-emerge as a chessboard for global powers, it is in the mutual interests of Africa and Asia to forge stronger alliances.

Ronak Gopaldas

Global Britain and an emerging India in the backdrop of the Commonwealth Summit

Privacy & Data Protection

May 02, 2018

Global Britain and an emerging India in the backdrop of the Commonwealth Summit

The possibility that over the next few years the Commonwealth might become an Anglo⎯Indian project is now in the air.

John Hemmings

The sharp power of development diplomacy and China’s edge

China Foreign Policy | International Trade and Investment

Apr 11, 2018

The sharp power of development diplomacy and China’s edge

Chinese development diplomacy not only offers alternative sources of finance, but also presents a model that seems to overcome the major criticisms of

Tanoubi Ngangom

Climate Change

Mar 23, 2018

PM Modi's solar diplomacy

In the years since Paris, the world has changed — Prime Minister Modi has seized on the momentum.

Anand Gupta

International Affairs | International Trade and Investment

Feb 14, 2018

Europe and China: Dependent but ungrateful?

With China’s economic strength and the relative weakness of many smaller European countries, it is justified to see a “divide and rule” strategy

Rachita Misra | Britta Petersen

Nasheed’s military request bad diplomacy for India?

Privacy & Data Protection

Feb 09, 2018

Nasheed’s military request bad diplomacy for India?

Nasheed’s tweet may have produced two undesired effects for India. If anyone in the Yameen dispensation were to take Nasheed and the Indian media se

N. Sathiya Moorthy

Right time for new era of trade diplomacy with Afghanistan

Indian Foreign Policy

Dec 28, 2017

Right time for new era of trade diplomacy with Afghanistan

‘Wheat diplomacy’ could just be the start of focus on export from India to Afghanistan.

Avijit Goel

How the ‘fall’ of IS, more than its rise, challenges global diplomacy

International Affairs

Dec 12, 2017

How the ‘fall’ of IS, more than its rise, challenges global diplomacy

The Syrian crisis, at its current juncture, looks set for a prolonged battle.

Kabir Taneja | Jonathan Phillips

Diplomacy, politics and Nepal’s forthcoming elections

Jan 01, 1970

Can diaspora diplomacy support India’s foreign policy goals?

Indian Foreign Policy

Sep 18, 2017

Can diaspora diplomacy support India’s foreign policy goals?

Shreya Challagalla

Israel's growing public diplomacy focus on Asia and new media

Indian Foreign Policy | Cyber and Technology

Jul 20, 2017

Israel's growing public diplomacy focus on Asia and new media

The thirst of developing countries to copy Israel's model of success — that some say “Jewish Success Story" — needs focus on technology.

Oshrit Birvadker | Oshrit Birvadker

India's influential soft power in Afghanistan: Giving edge over Pakistan

Neighbourhood | Indian Foreign Policy

Jun 29, 2017

India's influential soft power in Afghanistan: Giving edge over Pakistan

India’s soft power plays a big role in the Afghan admiration of the Indian media. It is not surprising that India invests in the infrastructure of A

Universal basic income and India's China lesson: Paradiplomacy revisited

Neighbourhood | Indian Economy | Economics and Finance | Financial Markets

May 10, 2017

Universal basic income and India's China lesson: Paradiplomacy revisited

Robust economic growth, coupled with a dibao-like subsistence guarantee to target poor through poverty household registry, and UBI in Macau and Hong K

Abha Thorat-Shah