New Caledonia is small Island situated in the Pacific Ocean. With a population of 271,407, it has been under French rule since 1853. Indigenously populated by Kanaks which have now been reduced to a minority. New Caledonia has been fighting...
The recent visit to Southeast Asia in December by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, marks the first official visit to the region by a high-ranking diplomat since President Joe Biden took office early this year. His maiden tour bega...
Afghanistan has become a classic case of what all could grow wrong in a nation that becomes the playground for great power politics. Ever since the invasion of one great power and the other, from USSR to the USA, Afghanistan has not known w...
Apart from the Indo-Pacific Quad, a new Quad was formed last month when India's, Israel's, the United Arab Emirates', and the United States' foreign ministers met to form a "International Forum for Economic Cooperation." Following last year...
In the 19th central committee meeting held early November calls for a major long-term shift in the politics of China under the incumbent President Xi Jinping. Plenums are described as the annual meetings of CCP putting forward agendas for t...
The article discusses the main mechanisms of “soft power” implemented by the Japanese government, business elites and society. For this, firstly, it is important to identify the basic levers of influence within the framework of the concept ...
As the pandemic was wreaking havoc all over the world pharmaceutical companies were racing towards the invention of coronavirus vaccine. The first vaccine that came to the market after completion of the third phase trial was Pfizer/BioNTech...
Ever since China has set on an unprecedented wave of growth and development, no move by it fails to make it to the global headlines and causes uproars regularly. China has left no domain untouched from its reach and is relentlessly followin...
Under the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance document released by Whitehouse in April 2021 there are few priority areas which have been highlighted. There are five major pillars: ‘rising nationalism, challenges to democracy, US gr...
After World War II, Germany had chosen soft power as the basis of its foreign policy strategy. Germany has been at the top of the soft power rankings for many years. Today, however, most of Germany's traditional sources of soft power are at...
Nepal's newly appointed Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Dueba has come to the power for the fifth time in past 26 years. He has a mammoth task ahead of him - he not only has to bring political stability in his country but also has to deal with...
India’s relationship with Southeast Asia spans centuries. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's interest in this region is even more evident through the adjustment of the Look East Policy into the Act East Policy. This adjustment aims...
