India- Africa Defence Ministers’ Conclave (IADMC) on 6th February 2020 marked an essential point of inflection in India- Africa relations. Historic relations between India- Africa were primarily involved in the paradigms of economic, sociol...
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 exact origin of the Mongol tribe is not clear among the scholars, but one thing is certain, that their ancestors covered a vast area which includes the current Mongolian state, Inner Mongolia (China), and the east of Mongolia (around th...
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...
Recently, the Government of India released the Draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP 2020) with the aim to develop a robust and competitive indigenous defence industry, reduce the dependence on defence imports, and to ...
The relations between China and Pakistan have been long-standing, strong and are based on mutual cooperation. China has emerged as an all-weather friend of Pakistan. The common ambitions, perceptions and policies have helped the two countri...
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...
