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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bangladesh and India have a long way to go. Let’s not blame China, the US or anyone else. ...
Biden and his foreign policy could be distracted by issues surrounding Russia and nonproliferation, diluting strategic attention to the structural realities facing the states across the stretch of the Indo-Pacific precipitated by the growth of Chinese power and its minatory assertion. India and the US could be on the road to a more frictional relationship under Biden as opposed to Trum ...
Each country in the region has had its share of acquaintance with asymmetric conflicts in different time-frames and in varying intensities. The South Asian countries may not be able to obliterate asymmetric conflicts but mitigating them is the need of the hour ...
Importance of Bhutan for India’s Foreign Polic ...
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. ...