Neighborhood Studies looks at the range of cross-cutting issues such as political developments, economic activities, cross-border activities and foreign affairs related issues and security surfacing in its immediate neighbors – India and China – in addition to its extended neighbors such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives. The study focuses to explore and identify emerging priorities in the neighborhood and generate evidence and analysis.
Incentivizing the States for undertaking Para diplomacy has been the main ingredient of the Chinese success recipe. For a country like India, where regional features such as identity, religion, demographics hold considerable sway over the social formation, Encouraging States to get involved in Para diplomacy can also be successfully employed as a peace building strategy ...
The pandemic exposed the real situation of our health system and the efficiency of the state. In days to come, the government has to strongly focus on healthcare and education if it wants to fight against the pandemic and prepare itself for such disaster ...
Inland navigation can add to the growth of the region if, issues such as infrastructure, environmental friendliness and public policy continue to endure despite political overlapping ...
Technology continues to influence decision making and hate speeches and local language content is being used to influence people on political and economic issues which is turning the voter into a ‘digital ideologue’ in the contemporary data age ...
The proposal could help India and Russia to explore new trade opportunities in the maritime neighborhood. For India, it would also help in securing access to natural resources that is crucial for its economic growth ...
China believes that India will cooperate with the US in containing China’s role in international relations and at the same time, India considered China a threat to its national security and India’s role in international relations ...
it is the good opportunity for India and the US to converge their interests together on the Afghanistan peace process and shape Afghanistan future. The Shuttle diplomacy though has its own weaknesses as far as its applicability is concerned in the case of China as a mediator and its increasing ties with Taliban ...
One of the main issues between the two countries is over partition of territory leading into several border disputes most prominent among them is related to the accession of territory of Jammu and Kashmir ...
While Realists have long argued that small powers efficiently use their prevalent resources and integrate their economies with the other states and the international system, it is not the same case with Bhutan ...
Wave of Emerging Insecurity in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
If Taliban are seeking international recognition and economic support it requires to make trust-building efforts with regional and international actors. It could be the only approach to prove their rule in which the basic rights of all ethnicities are reserved ...