The formation of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) was a response to the geopolitical rise of China with its increased aggressiveness and the resulting threat perception to maritime security and the rules-based liberal world order....
Why do we need QUAD? This question thematizes the main concern of this article. The role of QUAD in the international community is necessary to be understood. The objectives should be aligned in comparison to the need and requirements of th...
The Great Asian Highway, also known as the Asian Highway Network is a cooperative infrastructure project which has 32 Asian and European countries participatory countries along with ESCAP. The project aims at improving the highway connectiv...
Japan and Germany conducted their first ever “2 plus 2 dialogue” on 13th April 2021, albeit in virtual mode due to the raging pandemic. This comes after Germany announced that its frigate “Bayern” will set sail for the South China Sea in Au...
Foreign policy scholars and analysts across the world are of the opinion that even though the majority of Japanese policies have not changed since Suga Yoshihide replaced Abe as Japanese Prime Minister, there may be a change in the Japanese...
The rising tension in the South China Sea and China's assertiveness in the region have made the region an important theatre in International politics. China's expansionist policies have brought 'like-minded' countries in the region together...
The question of ASEAN centrality and its relevance in the international security as well as addressing regional security concerns has been heavily highlighted. ASEAN has accepted that as the Indo-Pacific is a new formation, it needs to be g...
India’s all-weather friend Japan has been the most supportive in the present times when Chinese aggressiveness is at an all high against India, especially in the Ladakh region. The Japanese Ambassador to India, Satoshi Suzuki quoted that “t...
In recent years, a new wave of flare up in Sino-Japanese geostrategic competition in the Pacific has galvanised the region by adding traditional and new players into the equation. The once neglected region in the post-Cold War world order, ...
Amid the pandemic that is sweeping the world and the United States embroiled in domestic racial tensions with President Donald Trump, and the era of the US dollar’s “exorbitant privilege”, a word coined by France’s then-finance minister Val...
Cam Ranh Bay means ‘Sweet Stream’ which has always been the strategic point of interest since the 19th century as the French, Russian, Japanese and American navies used the wide, deep and protected natural harbours but also used it as a ref...
The world at present is weathering the global pandemic, Coronavirus (COVID -19). China’s Wuhan emerged as the epicentre of it, and ever since then, it has rocked the world financially and medically. China’s secretiveness and lack of timely ...
