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The growing disjunction between Brussels and Warsaw sheds light on the overall questioning of Eurocentric values in the region.
India is set to expand its economic ties with Taiwan significantly.
The Council of Councils Seventh Regional Conference brought together experts from 20 leading institutions from around the world to discuss and debate critical regional and global issues.
With the foreign forces drawing down in Afghanistan, there is an inevitable loss offocus on the threat of terrorism in the highly vulnerable region of South Asia. But almost everycountry in the region, barring Bhutan, continues to confront the challenges of terrorism andinsurgency. Yet there appears little sense of the danger posed by terrorism, and its 'new' formsthat ride the wave of technology and the collapse of traditional state structures.
आतंकवाद के उभरते ख़तरों के मद्देनज़र भारत ने आतंक-निरोध �
The expansion of PLA Navy submarine activity in South Asia is quite in keeping with a powerful navy’s need to familiarise itself with alien operating conditions.
The Indian Ocean is important to China because Chinese trade and energy resources transit this route.
Social media platforms facilitate the sharing of information and enhance connectivity and civic engagement. At the same time, however, they are vulnerable to abuse by malicious actors who use the channels to spread misinformation and hateful and divisive content. Regulatory reforms must seek to align the utility of social media platforms with the welfare of citizens, while safeguarding the right to free speech. This paper explores the regulatory
Countering the militancy in Kashmir has become a highly challenging task due to the exploitation of new information and communication technology by insurgent groups. The battlefield is now a multidimensional one, encompassing both physical territory and cyberspace. The overall capabilities of insurgents have been enhanced by tools in cyberspace that are inexpensive, ever more sophisticated, rapidly proliferating, and easy to use. Militants are sy
Despite the recent series of successful operations against the Maoists, the state and its security forces have to entrench themselves in the state whi
From the time of independence, Pakistan's leaders have treated India as a Permanent Enemy. It exhibits its policy through jihad.
Global terrorism can only be countered through cooperation, mutual collaboration, and confidence building amongst the international community
The current geopolitical landscape has sparked the re-emergence of a strategic northern triangle aimed to diminish the US’s regional influence
There is a need for governments to engage the private sector in counter-terrorism and counter-propaganda initiatives. Counter-terrorism doctrines and strategies have been framed in the last decade with a focus on religious extremism and have failed to encompass other ideas, feel cyber expers.
In coming weeks, the battleground in all probability, could be the LoC and the villages dotting the vicinity.
Amidst the US-China power struggle, global counterterrorism cooperation needs to be strengthened.
To take advantage of their favourable demographic transitions over the coming decades, the developing and least developed countries (LDCs) need to add
In earlier coups, the Army used the Court as an afterthought to "justify" its actions. Now for the time the Court was used as the first port of call
Given India’s position in the region and its history of supporting democratic traditions, Delhi is likely to exert pressure for the restoration of democracy.
Successive coups in Africa will only further destabilise the region; African regional groupings need to resort to active intervention to curtail it.
Prolonged periods of military rule in Pakistan have enabled the military to penetrate all structures of the Pakistani state. Political parties, the judiciary, bureaucracy, and the media — today all have their share of pro-khaki elements. Therefore, a military coup d’etat is no longer the only way to unseat a democratically elected political leader who may have differences with the Army. Indeed, if former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had compl
Yameen needs to keep up the momentum of his unilateral approaches to politics and political administration, including legal, judicial and electoral ma
The COVID-19 pandemic can serve as an opportunity for India to redefine its approach to economic growth. The policy objective should be that once the threat of the current pandemic subsides, the country will not return to business-as-usual mode and rather build an economy for the future. The Indian government has declared that it is considering measures towards distress mitigation, relief disbursement, and a revival of growth. At the same time, h
Several Chinese provincial governments have taken the lead on COVID diplomacy in continental Southern Asia.
Throughout this ordeal, one must remain modest.
More states are beginning to relax lockdown restrictions to restore normalcy with preventive measures. How did a country of 1.3 billion, with large sl
In every dislocation, there is an opportunity. For investors in alternative assets, the short-medium term dislocation wrought by COVID-19 in emerging
Now is the time for the EU to harness its transformational power – and to protect citizens without turning in on itself.
As the scale of global challenges swells in size, so does the need for leading ad-hoc transnational countries to prove their diplomatic proficiency. C
Any unemployment support must include women who form a large proportion of the workforce in the informal sector.
Are African countries ready to handle a potential outbreak?
Migrant workers have perennially remained at the socio-economic margins of our society silently serving as the instrumental labour force of the urban
