IDR Blog
The road to nowhere: SAARC at 30
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an eight member country regional grouping- India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal & Sri Lanka. Apart from permanent members, SAARC also has nine observer countries (Thirteenth SAARC summit, Dhaka 2005) namely, Australia, China, European Union, Iran, Japan,...
Shinzo Abe in New Delhi: A Growing Strategic Partnership
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be in New Delhi on a three-day visit from December 11–13. He will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an agenda to widen and deepen the points of engagement and cooperation between the two nations. The discussions are likely to range from defence and civil nuclear cooperation to...
India and Taiwan: De-hyphenating a relationship
A lot of media attention is often given to the major shifts in India’s ties with US, Japan and South East Asia and Israel in the past two decades, as a consequence of not just the economic reforms of 1991, but the changing geo-political scenario globally in the past 25 years. The current government is trying to give a further push to...
Turkey's Ambitions and the War in Syria
Like in almost all Arab countries, the regime in Syria is also an absolute dictatorship. The unprecedented revolutionary fervor sweeping across the Arab world since December 2010 hit Syria in March 2011, but the trajectory of developments in Syria was completely different from those in Tunisia and Egypt. In Syria, the protests had become an...
Post Africa Summit: India must focus on implementation
The third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) was undoubtedly the biggest diplomatic event hosted by India in the recent times. The summit stood out in many ways. Unlike previous summits which adhered to the Banjul Principle, all 54 African countries participated in the summit. This made the summit much more inclusive and democratic....