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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.
The possibility that over the next few years the Commonwealth might become an Anglo⎯Indian project is now in the air.
Chinese development diplomacy not only offers alternative sources of finance, but also presents a model that seems to overcome the major criticisms of
In the years since Paris, the world has changed — Prime Minister Modi has seized on the momentum.
With China’s economic strength and the relative weakness of many smaller European countries, it is justified to see a “divide and rule” strategy
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
‘Wheat diplomacy’ could just be the start of focus on export from India to Afghanistan.
The Syrian crisis, at its current juncture, looks set for a prolonged battle.
The thirst of developing countries to copy Israel's model of success — that some say “Jewish Success Story" — needs focus on technology.
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
Robust economic growth, coupled with a dibao-like subsistence guarantee to target poor through poverty household registry, and UBI in Macau and Hong K
Sheikh Hasina's visit to India is viewed with a lot of expectations by both the countries and international observers.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s phone call to President-Elect Donald Trump last week triggered uproar in foreign policy circles of China, US & beyon
Paradiplomacy throws up fresh challenges for the Indian government.
Looking through an emergence prism, India’s development partnerships and economic diplomacy must be built around three concentric circles.
Paradiplomacy forms a quintessential part of the country’s foreign policy analysis in conducting international relations
An important element of the Act East policy is using cultural diplomacy to further India’s interests.
India has projected its soft power for centuries, long before the concept was even defined by political analysts. In the past decade, the country wielded its soft power in a more systematic way in the practice of diplomacy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in power since 2014, is becoming known for his passionate use of India’s soft-power assets through both an effective media management strategy and an intelligent use of social media. This Brief
China’s “wolf warriors” are just responding to pressures that envoys everywhere are feeling in the age of social media.
Has Modi, by kowtowing to the Chinese, miscalculated? There’s no squeak about China’s intended road work near the Doklam site, which could be a strategic thorn
ISRO’s success enables India to further its strategic goals and share the fruits of development with others.
Since his assumption to power in 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been slowly stretching the arm of the country’s foreign policy into Pacific waters in furtherance of the ‘Act East’ policy. While India’s relationship with the Pacific island states (read, not Australia and New Zealand) is quite unestablished, Modi is attempting to set the foundations for prosperous future cooperation. In the form of a guidebook for India on Pa
Iran is being treated more like North Korea, even though it is one of the world's great civilisations, with major historical and scientific achievements. And, as anyone who has deeply analysed the personalities of Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Un knows, they don't look like one another. Or like one another.
Their collaboration highlights the power of strategic alliances and technological synergy
The pandemic gives India a unique space to mainstream science and technology in its domestic and foreign policies
The Poonch incident two weeks ago and in Uri indicate there is no fight left in the militants in the Valley.
Now that BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi is approaching what could possibly be the pinnacle of his career, the last thing he wants is to box himself in by his own rhetoric. It is for this reason that in his Haryana speech, he also invoked Atal Bihari Vajpayee's policy, which used the Kargil crisis to get the world community to pin down Pakistan on avoiding the use of violence in relation to Kashmir.
Setting up of research taskforces on various climate change and environment risks in the BIMSTEC sub-region can develop a common understanding of the threats, create standards for emergency management and come up with cost-effective solutions.
Peaceful international partnerships in crucial sectors, like healthcare, continue to inspire India’s global vision.
To draw lines on the map along the ancient trade routes of China and to claim that they marked an exclusive zone of trade and dense economic relationship centering around and led by China will beg a number of questions. Does it mean that countries within the zone will sever their trade and economic relations with countries outside the zone?
For India, China's growing presence around its periphery will continue to pose challenges.
In October 2019, China’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Mauritius opened the Chinese market to Mauritian exporters and investors. Not long after, concerns arose that Mauritius might be lacking in the capacity to benefit significantly from the agreement and thus lose in terms of a trade imbalance that clearly favours China. This brief revisits China’s motivations for the FTA, and finds economic and geopolitical goals. Given Mauritius’s smal
