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.
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 ...
There is no short-cut to this problem. South Asian countries should continue on what it has been doing in the past to combat trafficking and at the same time also adopt long-term sustained policies to mitigate COVID-19 as well as human trafficking ...
The need of the hour is people centric approaches to security, conflict transformation and development. Only then, we will be truly talking about marginalised regions and their people instead of merely appearing to do so ...
A high level of discourse of politics and speech has to be maintained by important people in the government on either side of the border for meaningful diplomacy to take its course. Â ...
Rumour is about the possibility of the Sajith Premadasa led SJB and TNA joining SLPP led government after winning the election. President Gotabaya Rajapksa, by proclamation has summoned the new Parliament on 20 August 2020 ...
Currently, the relations between India and Pakistan have deteriorated due to the cross-border terrorism by Pakistan. This has left no room for de-escalation and peace talks over Siachen glacier ...
China-Iran Deal: Headache for New Delhi?
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 ...