Foreign Policy
India needs not simply free trade, but strategic globalisation
India’s sudden withdrawal from world’s “largest” regional trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Trade Economic Partnership (RCEP) in 2019 after seven years of hard negotiation, was seen with a construing view...
- Author Surbhi Jain
- Date December 10, 2020
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China, CPEC and COVID-19
Over a span of twenty years, China has had multiple ways of managing and monitoring its relationships with its neighbors, especially in South-East Asia. It has aimed at developing geo-strategic...
- Author Priyajit Debsarkar
- Date August 8, 2020
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India–UK counter terrorism cooperation: convergences and challenges
Cooperation on counter-terrorism is an important, but little-known, aspect of the India-UK security relationship. This was formally institutionalised in 2002 with the establishment of their foreign ministry-led Joint Working Group (JWG) on Terrorism....
- Author Rahul Roy-Chaudhury
- Date July 6, 2020
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A Restrained Foreign Policy is Becoming More Popular in Washington
Donald Trump’s pull out of Syria, the Senate’s recent vote to end American support for the Saudi War in Yemen, and Tulsi Gabbard’s announcement that she may run for President...
- Author Dr Kadira Pethiyagoda
- Date February 5, 2019
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Who are the “boat people”? Where did they come from?
With tears rolling down, a Rohingya Muslim woman in her tattered cotton sari explained her plight of living as a refugee in Delhi. The capital city of India, alone hosts...
- Author Shreshta Sharma
- Date January 12, 2019
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Is it really a Global Compact on Migration?
Back in 2016, 193 members of the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a non-binding political declaration, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, pledging to uphold the rights of...
- Author Dr A Didar Singh
- Date December 25, 2018
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Opinion: Will India ever align with the West?
When Indian and American Foreign and Defence Ministers/Secretaries met recently, they signed an agreement which would further strengthen security ties and the broader strategic partnership between the two countries. It...
- Author Dr Kadira Pethiyagoda
- Date October 24, 2018
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