Kritika Karmakar analyses the reasons for increase in Islamic state sympathisers in Indonesia, and why few major religious organisations are subscribing to the concept of Islamic caliphate. Islamic State sympathisers have been on the rise, ever since the organisation lost its foothold in Iraq and Sy...
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Rajaram Panda posits that Trump's transactional attitude with its allies might hamper security ties. Like other foreign policy changes after coming to power and with ‘America First’ at the fulcrum of his foreign policy doctrine, President Donald Trump started reviewing the terms and con...
Pankaj Jha argues that India’s approach towards national and international security is different from what is being professed by the European countries. This article highlights how perspectives from the European Union and its affiliate institutions are perceived in the Indian national securit...
by Professor Rajaram Panda As the world battles with the new Corona virus, Covid-19, that originated in Wuhan and has spread to more than 148 countries causing social disruption, economic damage, sickness and deaths with the figure increasing every day, no one seems to have any clue on how...
The outbreak of coronavirus, labeled by the World Health Organisation as COVID-19, in the Chinese city of Wuhan and now spread to more than 70 countries has shaken the world, upsetting the world’s capital markets and severely impacting inter-governmental relations between countries as they ma...
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), the nuclear powered aircraft docked into Tien Sa Port, Danang, along with the Bunker hill, a highly sophisticated US navy cruiser, as part of a liaison visit. The aircraft carrier can carry 90 aircrafts and a crew of 5000 personnel. There was lot of specula...
Faced by a virus that has spiralled out of control because of its fault, China is perhaps at a defining cross-roads in its history. As fear of the new Wuhan corona virus spreads, it has become increasingly clear that this is another of Beijing’s blunders. In a repeat of the past, the governme...
India Russia defence weapons trade has usually been referred as that of supplier and consumer. The last four decades of the arms trade has seen Russia weapons comprising more than 70 per cent of India’s weapons inventory. The adaptation to the Soviet/Russian weapon systems have made the armed...