In the last week of February 2020, Indonesia's government approved the defence agreements which were previously formed with United States of America. Many scholars across the world have hailed this development as a significant step in Indon...
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organisation of the ten South–East Asian countries- Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, has been cooperating in v...
Indo-Pacific started as a vision by Japan, but soon after it, became a strategy when the United States adopted it. India took became a part of it and all these countries became the Quad. With the coming of Viet Nam, South Korea and New Zeal...
The Indo-Pacific region, it is the most vital region for any country to wield influence because of its trade and strategic importance. With the rise of China, the great game is on, to increase their influence and control vital strategic cho...
“International politics is a nasty and dangerous business, and no amount of goodwill can ameliorate the intense security competition that sets in when an aspiring hegemon appears in Eurasia.” John J. Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer wrote ‘China’s ...
The world at present faces several issues whether it’s the Coronavirus Pandemic, uncertainties over the existing world order have been raised accompanied with inter-state competitions in the political, economic and military realm. Recently,...
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...
The Indo-Pacific region that marks the importance of the confluence of two huge oceans viz. the Indian and Pacific Oceans, has become the key hotspot globally, even surpassing the middle east region. It has also turned out to be one of the ...
The Quad 2.0 is being hailed by some, but many are also calling it an extension of the United States of America’s Hub-and-Spoke model. Critics have questioned the relevance of Quad 2.0 as there is no template or blueprint, and the inclusion...
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 tim...
Our world at present has been withstanding the pernicious coronavirus and the ramifications have been felt on the world economies, their financial sector and the healthcare facilities[i]. COVID-19 has rattled the economic and the social wel...
