Monthly Archives: February 2020
Farce, Lies & Deceit: Pakistan’s Nuclear Czar’s unending Brinkmanship
Any assessment or study conducted on Pakistan’s Nuclear programme post 2000 barely misses a name which is Lt Gen Khalid Ahmed Kidwai (Retd). An...
Supreme Court Decision On Women Officers: Need For Holistic Policy Planning
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on 17 Feb 2020, ruled for Government to grant permanent commission to women officers in the Army at...
Covid-19 and Kerala: A Model for Medical Securitization
With the cause yet to be confirmed, the outbreak of novel corona virus (Covid-19) in the town of Wuhan in the Hubei province of...
Analysing the China-Myanmar relations: A fruit of Western Isolation
President Xi Jinping was on a two-day (17th and 18th January 2020) visit to Myanmar and this was the first visit by a Chinese...
Transnational Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Impact on India
Introduction
In May 2017, Marawi City in the Mindanao Island of the Philippines became witnesses to the struggle between the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
Espionage in Kautilya’s Arthashastra: A case study of 1971 India-Pakistan War and Intelligence
Arthashastra written by Kautilya is a treatise on statecraft written in 4 BC. Kautilya was an advisor to King Chandragupta Maurya and helped him...
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Indo-French Relations: The New Strategic Contours
INTRODUCTION
India and France have been enjoying a steady and fruitful relationship over the years. Post-Independence, India experienced a globally stable yet a ‘fluctuative relationship’...
Sri Lankan Economic Woes and Chinese Help
The Chinese footprint has been growing in South-Asia in recent years. It has been applying smart power diplomacy i.e. a combination of hard power...
Kuwait’s Expatriate Quota Bill: How does it concern India?
In September 2011, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the Nitaqat (Nationalisation policy) programme, there was a huge inflow of Indian migrants flying...