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India and the Global Regimes: Bipartisan Consensus can Make Things Move
Even as the politico-strategic impact of UK leaving the European Union (EU) is being assessed, certain new patterns are emerging as regards the global governance of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD. While India’s setback at the Seoul Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has caused predictable disappointment, India was formally inducted into the...
Is Political Rivalry Fuelling Terror Attacks in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh, like many other countries in South Asia, has been in the grip of terror for quite some time. But the recent terror attack in an upmarket Dhaka café was something the country had not seen in the past. This terror attack brought Dhaka immediately in league with Paris, Brussels and Ankara, where similar attacks had taken place in the...
Russia’s Exorbitant Strategic Costs In ‘China Pivot’
Russia’s exorbitant strategic cost incurred in its ‘strategic pivot’ to China is irrefutably true leading to perceptive loss of its global stature and negating President Putin’s articulation of Russia as an independent power centre. Irrefutable again is the strategic reality that in the trade-off for forging a Russia-China strategic...
Sri Lanka, India need each other in a changing Economic and Social Order
Strung in association that has multiple dimensions, the ties between India and Sri Lanka are not only based on the goods that are traded, or even the strategic convergences they enjoy; the ties between these two countries are also a matter of perception. Confronted with many issues, yet heading strong, the intensifying alliance between India...
Building Frigates for The Philippines Navy
The Indian Navy was, till not very long ago, dependent on foreign yards for its requirements of warships. It has come a long way since then and today all its future warships on order are with Indian shipyards, including hi-tech vessels like Aircraft Carriers, Nuclear Submarines, etc., the manufacture of which very few countries in the world...