The 15th and 16th of September 2022 marked the 22nd annual summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The first physical meeting since the pandemic, this meeting brought ...
China's approach to debt distress is generally to seek preferential treatment and negotiate with creditors in a more tailored manner. As Sri Lanka prepares to negotiate with its major creditors, including the International Monetary Fund, it...
Indian interests post-Cold War for Sri Lanka made a shift from a balance of power to more pragmatic security considerations. In the 1980s and 1990s, India was avoiding being engulfed in the Cold War power struggle which led to the negligenc...
One of the world’s most geographically separated nations, the Maldives, is becoming more important and playing an essential role in the current geopolitical developments. The Indian Ocean’s centrally placed island republic, which is made up...
During a three-day visit to Vietnam, India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh and his counterpart in the Vietnamese government General Phan Van Giang signed the Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030. This...
Last month, Shehbaz Sharif became Pakistan's 23rd Prime Minister after two months of intensive politicking and conflict. His appointment came after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was forced to resign following a no-confidence vote. He ...
Recently, India and Israel celebrated their 30th anniversary of establishing the diplomatic relations. Before that India due to the Nehruvian Policies and Non-Aligned Movement followed the path more eschewed towards Palestine, barring it fr...
From a structural realist point of view, in an anarchic system, states are fearful and suspicious of each other due to their 'inscrutable intentions'. As a result, they constantly face security dilemmas where any step by a state to increase...
The current year is going to be highly significant for the diplomatic relations between Russia and Pakistan. The top leadership of both the countries were present at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics began on the evening of Februa...
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Delhi for the Covid-interrupted 21st annual India-Russia Summit was made possible by some hard-nosed calculations based on realpolitik. The meeting's timing, right before the Biden-Put...
Ever since its formation, India has been dealing with alliance adversaries of all kinds from one end or the other. The cold war paved way for the Non-Aligned Movement that sharply defined India’s approach on the global scale, and the wars t...
Initially, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was the group of the six Eurasian countries that expanded with the inclusion of India and Pakistan in 2017. Constituted to resolve border disputes between the participant states, the or...
