Articles By Dr Rajasimman Sundaram
Disambiguation of OBOR in Sino-Indian Relations: Is It a Strategic Checkmate...
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2017
As for international politics, international trade has nothing personal about it. While India may have earned the entitlement of a rising power in some quarters of projected strategic...
Disambiguation of OBOR in Sino-Indian Relations: Is It a Strategic Checkmate...
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2017
While having agreed in principle the idea that expansion of connectivity takes place between countries, India has not yet confirmed or regret its attendance at the China’s Belt and...
Militarisation of the South China Sea: The Offence-Defense Paradigm
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 13 Jul , 2016
While war between US and China is ruled out for multiple reasons, the military balance of power dictated by military strategy chosen has direct bearings on the political choices made by...
BRICS: A Strategic Self Appraisal
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 19 Jan , 2016
BRICS was carved out of a group formally initiated by Russia in 2002 – Russia-India-China (RIC) to address the challenges it faced after the break-up of Soviet Union.1 China and India’s...
Beginning of End of the American Empire
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2015
Having maintained an isolationist foreign policy prior to reluctantly accepting global leadership in the aftermath of World War II from United Kingdom, United States is now unable to react...
Celebrating The Past: China’s Military Parade 2015
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2015
By order of missing out on the finer details of the military parade held in Beijing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Chinese military victory over occupying Japanese forces in 1945, an...
Strategic Partnerships of the 21st Century
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2015
The term “strategic partnership” has been in-vogue in the post cold War period with countries having multiple strategic partnerships. However matters related to realpolitik force to see...
Cultural incompatibility in US analysis of PLA
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Date: 24 Feb , 2015
While past does not determine the future, neither is it inconsequential. Acknowledgment of a mistake in the past does not mean it has been learned for non-repeatability. A whole lot adjustment in...
India in US Strategic Rebalance in Asia-Pacific
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Date: 30 Jan , 2015
A perceptional improvement in India’s global strategic profile by way of its growing economy[1] and defence capability, has found India a significant place in United States (US) strategic...
China’s Maritime Thrust in Africa
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 13 Sep , 2012
Call it China’s new military diplomacy or birth traits of its emerging naval strategy, a Chinese naval fleet arrived in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on 6 January, 2009 to carry out the first...