Security and preserving national interest formulate the crux of diplomacy and international relations. Maritime security and diplomacy presents a challenge for maintaining peace in the oceans. India’s challenge becomes bigger as Indian Ocea...
Officially formed in 2006, BRICS is the grouping of five emerging economies in the world comprising of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (joined later in 2010). Initially it started as a pressure group which met on the side-lin...
In December 2019, the Russian Ambassador to India stated that Moscow hopes that the New Delhi and Eurasian Economic Union would sign a free trade agreement in 2020. In January 2020, ahead of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to India, ...
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 new likely US president Joe Biden when he assumes charge would have to address the question of US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan. With increasing attacks by Taliban in Afghanistan and inroads by Islamic state it would be a hard deci...
India and Philippines have signed the defence cooperation agreement in the year 2006. Since then there have been regular interactions between armed forces personnel, and also liaison visits by the high-ranking officials, and naval ships. Jo...
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...
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organisation of the ten South–East Asian countries- Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, has been cooperating in v...
In September 15, 2020, Israel has signed Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain which aims at normalising the relations between the three nations. These include security and scientific cooperation, direct flights, commercial activities, t...
Afghanistan has been a battleground for many years. There have been intense battles of ideologies, powers, business and even in in the sphere of who helped in establishing a stable, peaceful order. Afghanistan’s strategic locations make it ...
The world at present is reeling under the deadly Coronavirus(COVID-19), which has led to an imbalance in the fiscal markets, inevitably overthrowing the world economics and tarnishing the heath care facilities to an absolute mayhem. China w...
