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.
Indian citizens are India’s responsibility and those desirous may be brought back to the extent possible after the travel restrictions have been removed as reportedly indicated by Indian Minister of State for External Affairs ...
There are two ways in which the SAARC can be more inclusive, first, by placing more women in the SAARC Ministerial-level group, and secondly, by going beyond targeting individual women and regularly consulting with women’s organizations who are at the front line of the COVID-19 response ...
India has already earned a good reputation for groundbreaking developments in the pharmaceutical sector. An increased focus on collaborative research in this field between educational institutions in India and Nepal would open the floodgates for easier access to pharmaceuticals and traditional medicines in the near future ...
While India has been considered better at bilateral relations than multilateral ones, in the past few years, India has also made sincere efforts towards increasing its engagements with multilateral institutions ...
Government should come with effective plans to protect the economy from collapsing. It should speed up the testing process so that it can isolate the affected for treatment, and normalize the economic activities at the earliest ...
China is attempting to cast a new international order out of the COVID-19 catastrophe. However, countries in the Indo-Pacific are committed to maintain defense and they have also stepped up their cooperation to fight the pandemic ...
The SAARC Centre for Disaster Management and Preparedness, SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre and SAARC Meteorological Research Centre should be entrusted to work together with member countries implementing the framework in context of regional cooperation within the mandate of the respective Regional Centre ...
Analyzing India’s Response to COVID-19: Regional Success or Domestic Misfire ...
It is important that India stands up to these domestic challenges, and radically revamps its healthcare system to ease the current national burden before the next wave of transmission. It has an opportunity to usher in a new age of ‘Medical Diplomacy’, countering China’s Health Silk Route, and putting a strong nail on BRI’s coffin once the world gets over COVID-19 ...