China’s increasing military build-up in South China Sea islands under its control has become a matter of global concern. The militaristic approach and the assertive posture adopted by China has few intrinsic objectives. China has been condu...
Launched in 2015, the Sagarmala (Ocean Necklace)Project has been one of the most promising projects launched by Modi government. Seen as an aggressive strategy to finally use its long coastline, the Indian project in the maritime domain has...
Russia is experiencing melting ice caps in the Arctic region faster than the predicted rate and it will dramatically change its geography in the coming years. It has for centuries enjoyed protection due to its extremely cold weather in the ...
On February 5th 2021, India and the EU held the first meeting of High-Level Dialogue on Trade and Investment attended by Minister of Industry and Commerce, Dr. Piyush Goyal from India and Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for trade ...
Oliver Roy, one of the leading French political scientists who worked extensively on "a different view of radical Islam", distinguishes Islamism and neo-fundamentalism. While differentiating these two tendencies, he defines that the former ...
The year 2020 presented itself in the most turbulent tones ever possible. We witnessed the global pandemic, the US-China rivalry, bearish economies and it was in the midst of these unprecedented changes that Vietnam handed over the Chairman...
Afghanistan has been embroiled in conflict for the past 40 years, first under the Soviet Union and after 9/11 by the United States. America invaded the country after the Taliban government refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden who had orches...
Rory Medcalf, in his essay “What’s in a name” noted that “Indo-Pacific minilateralism is the wave of the future that many countries will try to surf.”[1] The recent tide of trilateral and quadrilateral groups hints at the significance 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...
For centuries, it was the ancient ‘Silk Road’ which linked the economy and culture of the east and west civilization via central Asia. A wide array of goods was passed, connecting China and Europe through the effective functioning of the Si...
India and Singapore have a longstanding partnership in the field of defence cooperation. Covering three major areas - armed forces, defence technology cooperation and maritime security, India-Singapore defence relationship have become stron...
US – Indonesia relations underwent a major twist of change when United States under Obama administration recognized the critical importance of Asia Pacific region and Indonesia under President Joko Widodo strengthened its commitment to the ...
