In the ongoing situation, keeping Bhutan by its side has become imperative for India’s foreign policy. India should take any socio-economic and diplomatic step possible to keep Bhutan on its ambit, like it recently did with the new trade route. ...
Adaptive mechanisms and disaster risk reduction can help in diminishing the impact of climate change on several vulnerable communities. However, to adequately manage extremely vulnerable regions such as the South Pacific, there is a need for a constructive response mechanism which takes into consideration all major elements and actors involved in the crisis. ...
The growing gust of apprehension in the South China Sea dispute essentially appears to be the involvement of external powers which signals that if the situation gets worse, the world might witness the recurrence of Cold-War dilemma in the South China Sea. ...
India must change its way of dealing with Nepal as times have changed and the same goes for China, it needs to have a more improved approach towards promoting Nepal’s hydropower projects instead of delaying it. ...
Triangular strategic combination of three major powers seems to be unrealistic and could open new vistas of opportunities and progress. Moreover, various confrontations will neither bring prosperity nor the advent of ‘Asian Century’. ...
The Naga militant/political movement and the instability is as important to the Indian State as it is for the Nagas as this provide the perfect cover to station troops. ...
The enlarging Sino-Iranian cooperation between Beijing and Tehran is a blow for New Delhi’s strategic calculations. However, the range and depth of these challenges would be determined by the extent of Beijing’s advance in dealing with the conflicts of interest involved. ...
Cults of personalities for centuries enabled the survival of innumerable dynasties and dynasts by constructing a perception where an individual is essential for the survival or prosperity of the state by inextricably affiliating themselves with the state. Putin and Xi are prime examples of this. ...
G-20 is especially important because it provides India, a developing populous country, with an opportunity to display its global, political, economic and intellectual leadership on the same platform with the world’s most powerful countries. ...
Abraham Accord: A Half-Hearted Attempt for Peace
The deal is historic in a sense that it’s the first kind of deal between Israel and a Gulf nation, but the significance of the deal as some watershed movement is questionable. ...