Japan launched its most significant military buildup since World War II earlier this month, with a $320 billion plan to acquire missiles capable of countering its regional threats and prepare it for any kind of long-term battle. The regiona...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
In 2012, Thailand proposed an initiative for sustainable development of the Lancang-Mekong Sub-region. This initiative was welcomed by China. In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the 17th China-ASEAN Summit proposed the establishment of t...
The delivery of the S-400 air defence system began in November last year with an Indian official confirming the same. “We will get the S-400 on schedule. The first squadron will arrive and it will be inducted this year,” Indian Air Force Ch...
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Delhi for the Covid-interrupted 21st annual India-Russia Summit was made possible by some hard-nosed calculations based on realpolitik. The meeting's timing, right before the Biden-Put...
India’s relationship with Southeast Asia spans centuries. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's interest in this region is even more evident through the adjustment of the Look East Policy into the Act East Policy. This adjustment aims...
Structural realism is the theory of international realism that invites suspicion over the 'relative gains' to the allies in an alliance. Military gains are valued most for the national interest, and it's likely to create a feud in a coaliti...
The likely agenda of the BRICS summit becomes a hot topic of the town since India will chair it. The foreign policy scholars initiated the prediction of the issues that would be a top priority in the 13th BRICS summit occurring under the au...
Vietnam after its chairmanship fo ASEAN has also assumed the role of non-permanent member of UNSC in 2020. The elevation from a regional leader to a global stakeholder has provided better understanding of regional dynamics and global respon...
The United Nations Organisation, the world’s largest multi-sectoral multilateral inter-governmental institution is under increasing threat of becoming irrelevant in the emerging world order. The leaders of the powerful countries that consti...
The bilateral relationship between two antipodean neighbours- India and New Zealand, has been a tale of divergent policy stances and changing international milieu which have defined their relationship. Usually, whenever there is an expositi...
