In today's complex and interconnected world, intelligence agencies play a critical role in safeguarding national security interests. As global threats continue to evolve and grow in complexity, intelligence cooperation and information shari...
The Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s leading security summit, takes place in Singapore since its inception in 2002. It has been organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), think tank based in London. The name of the fo...
In the realm of international relations, two prominent neighbouring nations have found themselves entangled in the intricate dynamics of the Prisoner's Dilemma. A consequential event took place in Goa as the Foreign Ministers from these nat...
The SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting 2023 under the chairmanship of India was held on April 28, 2023, in New Delhi. Alongside the member states, two observer countries, Belarus, and Iran, also participated in the meeting. During the meeting, ...
On 15 April 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Vietnamese PM Phan Minh Chinh and other high-ranking government officials in Vietnam thanking him for the decade-long success of the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. H...
The 4th Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit and International Conference was held from April 2 to 5 in Vientiane, Laos. It was hailed to be an upgradation towards the goal of water security and cooperation in Mekong.This conference was the...
The Indo-French Strategic Partnership has turned 25 years old in 2023. It was launched on January 26, 1998, on President Chirac's visit to India, and it represents both countries' desire to enhance their separate strategic independence via ...
In February 2023, France, India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced an ambitious new trilateral partnership aimed at collaborating on several areas, such as defence, technology, and energy. The foreign ministers of the three count...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has marked its one-year anniversary since the outbreak of hostilities on February 24, 2022. The anniversary of the war has brought attention to the ongoing crisis, highlighting the continuous struggle between the...
The year 2021 marked two decades since the term "BRICS" was first used by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in the early 2000s to refer to the four rapidly developing nations that appeared most likely to start catching up to the We...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
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 ...
