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...
The region of East Asia has become an epicentre of conflicts primarily because of China’s growing military dominance and North Korea’s increasing missile arsenals. These efforts of China and North Korea are leading the region of East Asia t...
The purpose of this article is to analyse the Kuril Island dispute between Russia and Japan and its effects on the diplomatic outlook of the Indo- Pacific region. The islands fundamentally begin with the fact that Russia recognizes them as ...
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...
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...
Structural realism is the theory of international realism that invites suspicion over the 'relative gains' to the allies in an alliance. Military gains are valued most for the national interest, and it's likely to create a feud in a coaliti...
The growing economic and trade ties between India and Korea have strengthened in the recent years. In 2018, the two countries' annual trade surpassed the $20 billion mark for the first time. Through the CEPA, India and Korea have been able ...
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...
As the world slowly coming with the terms of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, many observers said that the unexpected US debacle on Afghan soil gathers semblance of its pack up from Saigon, Vietnam. The scathing rupture in US credibilit...
The unabated rise of china and its uncontrolled muscle flexing around its periphery is disliked by many of its neighbors. India and Vietnam are the two countries that shares borders with China also share the frustration created by it at the...
On 13 July 2021, the Japanese Ministry of Defence released the latest edition of its annual white paper, Defence of Japan 2021. The document describes a range of issues regarding Japan's security including China's growing military capabilit...
The US-South Korea relations go back a long way. In 1882, both countries (America and Joseon Korea) signed the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, continuing until 1905. At the end of World War II, the Korean peninsula was div...
