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Is Pakistan simply incapable in securing terrorists or are they hand-in-glove with them?
India should quickly adapt and learn from the gaps exposed in the Russian military during the Ukraine crisis.
With strong convergences of strategic interests, military-security cooperation looks promising between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
Pakistan’s new government rests on a stolen mandate engineered by the military
In the past, the British intelligence was never well-disposed towards the Labour Party and other political leaders and intellectuals to the left of the political spectrum. During the Cold War years, it used to project the Labour Party as riddled with KGB agents. It even reportedly suspected that former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB agent.
To what extent could Vasili Mitrokhin be considered a trustworthy source with access to sensitive details regarding the KGB's operations abroad, when he was in service?
Vasili Mitrokhin was born on March 3, 1922 in Yurasovo, in Central Russia. After completing his school education, he entered an artillery school of the Soviet army. While serving in the Army, he joined a university in Kazakhstan and graduated in History and Law.
By opposing 'unilateralism in international affairs' and evincing a 'common interest' in the evolution of a multipolar world based on 'cooperative security order' while in Moscow this week, Prime Minister Vajpayee has addressed issues going beyond bilateral ties and regional politics in South Asia. To the extent, Vajpayee and India have been consistently focussing on multipolarism, particularly after the US war in Afghanistan, and on Iraq.
The strong showing of the six religious party¿s alliance, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) in the October 2002 general elections in Pakistan has led to apprehensions among the tribe of Pakistan watchers worldwide about the inexorable slide of a nuclear-armed Pakistan towards ¿talibanisation¿.
The Modi government’s fragmented approach has remained at the canopy and has not been able to achieve foundational improvements in budgeting at the
The Chinese understanding about the border has changed many times and while a swap agreement would be a feasible solution to the issue, the Chinese have asked for more concessions on the East, says Dr. Manoj Joshi
The cries to repeal AFSPA have grown louder in the wake of the recent Nagaland massacre. Will it finally be reality?
Morality is a slippery slope to tread in public affairs. It’s certainly an individual virtue, but at a societal level it’s difficult to define.
The Thailand caretaker government’s decision to engage with the military junta in Myanmar has threatened ASEAN unity
International humanitarian actors have been quick and efficient to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.
In the long⎯term, new cities can adopt a ‘decentralised urbanisation’ approach, where stronger linkages between urban and rural areas should be
Linking Aadhaar to nearly everything creates a “map of maps” that is vulnerable at multiple points.
Policymakers and practitioners are leading the emerging consensus on the need to fundamentally reassess assumptions
NCIIPC calls for forging partnerships between public and private entities, leveraging each other’s strengths by avoiding the traditional regulatory
International stability can be endangered if the fine points of how international law applies to cyber operations are not determined
LAWS are transforming into an arena of geopolitical and strategic competition while also reflecting the same inequalities that have characterised tech
The NEST division is a significant development and underscores the importance of emerging technologies to India’s expanding digital landscape and do
There are growing tensions between countries traditionally considered partners. For those who love binaries — is this the new bipolarity?
Middle powers with multiple partnerships like India can play a big role in the emerging global order
China’s growing naval force projection has sparked anintense maritime contest in the Indo-Pacific, where traditional notions of spheres of influence are being challenged.
The agriculture sector’s contribution to India’s GDP and employment makes it crucial to the country’s growth. At the same time, the sector’s massive greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to India’s green transition. The ongoing farmers’ protests also highlight the need for a climate-smart agriculture strategy that will address fundamental issues like income support. This brief outlines a framework for India’s “new green revolutio
Notwithstanding certain areas of confusions and its share of shortcomings, some of them very serious in nature, the new land acquisition bill is a long overdue and must move quickly with doses of amendments to see the daylight.
The tattered legacy left by predecessor Gen. Bajwa pushes Gen. Munir to mend the army’s tarnished image
The world moulded by the Delhi Summit will be one of people-focused principles, and agile, trust-based partnerships
