Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF) has been critical for understanding Indonesia’s position in the larger Indo Pacific, and how it places its critical importance in the emerging sea lanes of communication (SLOCs). The Global Maritime...
The Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed by USSR & China in 1950 bound two states to assist each other militarily in case of an attack by Japan or any other state aiding Japan in aggression (Nandan and Uma, 2015). The...
Since the early months of 2020, the international community has been battling a viral outbreak, which has quickly grown into a widespread pandemic. The advent of coronavirus has virtually thrown away the adventure of globalization and has b...
The rising tension in the South China Sea and China's assertiveness in the region have made the region an important theatre in International politics. China's expansionist policies have brought 'like-minded' countries in the region together...
In the last week of February 2020, Indonesia's government approved the defence agreements which were previously formed with United States of America. Many scholars across the world have hailed this development as a significant step in Indon...
The question of ASEAN centrality and its relevance in the international security as well as addressing regional security concerns has been heavily highlighted. ASEAN has accepted that as the Indo-Pacific is a new formation, it needs to be g...
On November 4th 2019, Thailand passed the baton of ASEAN leadership to Vietnam. Vietnam officially became part of the ASEAN community in 1995 and became its 7th member. It remained outside the grouping during the Cold War era, and the ASEAN...
On 4th November 2019, the US, Japan, and Australia jointly announced the Blue Dot Network (BDN) at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Thailand during the 35th ASEAN Summit. This initiative seeks to employ a multi-stakeholder approach to pro...
On September 10, Maldives and the United States of America signed the 'Framework for the U.S. Department of Defence-Maldives Ministry of Defence: Defence and Security Relationship" in Philadelphia, USA. Signed by Minister of Defence, Mariya...
In recent times, the Indo-Pacific has become the largest geo-strategic cum political hotspot of the world. In terms of Cartographic Schematics, Indo-Pacific broadly covers the area between the western coast of the US and the eastern shores ...
Indo-Pacific started as a vision by Japan, but soon after it, became a strategy when the United States adopted it. India took became a part of it and all these countries became the Quad. With the coming of Viet Nam, South Korea and New Zeal...
In the document titled ‘Germany – Europe – Asia: shaping the 21st century together’( 72 pages document)outlined the new role that Germany envisaged for the European union. The country is the European Union (EU) chair and also one of the mos...
