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With the Japanese crisis triggering worldwide re-thinking on the feasibility of pursuing nuclear energy to meet growing global energy demands, it is time that India, US and others looked at the option of Space Based Solar Power (SBSP).
Instead of amending the AFSPA, putting the military in harm's way and then watching it unravel, the political class must have the willpower to send the military back to the barracks and let the civilian Government do its job.
The Medog project was expected — its announcement is synchronised with the Chinese Communist Party’s fifth plenum.
In working out the constitutional changes in terms of division of powers between the President and Parliament, represented purportedly by the Prime Mi
Criticisms regarding police powers for the provinces have stalled the execution of 13A in Sri Lanka
The question of municipal leadership is of great significance in urban governance in India. There are various models of the position of chief executive of an urban local body (ULB), predominantly tilting towards the ‘strong mayor’ model either through ‘presidentialisation’ of the office or through a ‘mayor-in-council’[1] system. In India, it is the ‘state appointed municipal commissioner’ model that holds sway, sitting over a popu
An increase in temperature not only increases electricity demand but also increases carbon emissions, posing a challenge to India’s energy transitio
For a stable and fair international relations system, strong relations between Russia and India are important in maintaining a balance in the changing
As of now, there are no markets for these pumped hydro storage services but, in the future, the need for such services is likely to increase to the po
Rather than pinning all hopes to mitigate regional tensions in West Asia on the Abraham accords, regional actors should establish new channels of comm
The dragon has officially risen. But as China spreads its reach and influence beyond its borders through the Belt and Road Initiative, implementation
Soft power in South Asia has ushered a fear of retaliation; negative impacts such as debt traps appear less threatening to these countries than turnin
Combining private sector initiatives and government policies synergistically can lead to gender empowerment
Closer home, the Great Power Game will be played in the unstable fields of Ayatollahs' Iran, a Talibanised Afghanistan, whose leaders have their own world view, and a Sunni radicalised nuclearised Pakistan. The main contestants will be China and the US and our strategic planners may have to start planning for an uncertain future.
If India wants to show the world Kashmir is back to normal, the downed shutters, empty schoolyards and unpicked fruit will make sure it hears a differ
Political polarisation gnaws at American democracy from within as mutual intolerance has drastically increased in the United States.
Strategists in New Delhi would have to factor in that a two front confrontation with Pakistan and China cannot be ruled out. US response in this case is an uncertainty. We need to remember that in the ultimate analysis, China is the resident power and the US is a distant power.
The Modi-led government is placing a strong accent on the use of soft power in India’s foreign policy. One of the more novel manifestations of these initiatives has been engagement in Buddhist diplomacy. The Buddhist faith, due to its emphasis on peaceful co-existence and its wide pan-Asian presence, lends itself well to soft-power diplomacy. This brief will examine India’s attempts at leveraging its historical and present-day associations wi
This brief evaluates the capabilities of the Chinese-origin frigates acquired by Pakistan, and explores the potential implications of their induction on the operational approach of the Pakistan Navy. The brief argues that the Pakistan Navy’s acquisition of Chinese-origin frigates must be viewed as part of its attempted transformation from a force adopting an offensive sea-denial strategy to one gearing towards enhanced regional
Chinese development diplomacy not only offers alternative sources of finance, but also presents a model that seems to overcome the major criticisms of
The historic second term of Narendra Modi’s government can serve to exacerbate the material asymmetry between India and Pakistan. For this reason an
Indus project was to arrest the wastage of water flowing unused into the sea and put it to use to irrigate and power between India and Pakistan
Much in the manner that the Sino-American dﾂtente transformed the Asian balance of power in the 1970s, the construction of a strong strategic partnership between India and America is bound to change the Asian geopolitical order and rejig the regional alignments.
Trump is a short-term problem. The China challenge — on the other hand — is a continuing and long-term problem.
The upward revision of rates by the irrigation and electricity department is adversely impacting the ULBs in Maharashtra
Dr. Sergey Kurginyan noted that the world at present faces the threat of descending into a vortex of chaos and whoever succeeds in managing this chaos effectively will be able to take control of the future of the international system as the new hegemon.
Observer Research Foundation and the Experimental Creativity Centre (ECC), Moscow, completed the second leg of their collaborative research project on the theme "Understanding the Emerging Contours of Power and Hegemony - Contemporary Geo-political Narratives" in New Delhi on March 15-16, 2010.
Sports diplomacy has significantly influenced international relations, but to maximize its potential, concrete policies and diplomatic actions are ess
