Category: Article
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Strengthening ASEAN’s Response: Reassessing the Five Point Consensus on Myanmar
On 24 April 2021 the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting was convened at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, with the view to reach a consensus on the situation in Myanmar apart from other issues such as community building efforts, recovery from the COVID19 pandemic, and other pressing issues of common interest to all ASEAN Member States. On…
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Rebalancing of Power: Setting the Stage for India’s Centrality in the Indo-Pacific Theatre
The emergence of new powerful countries has significantly changed the view about the erstwhile power equations in the world. The new global order neither shows the sign of bipolarity nor indicates the sustainability of the hegemonic powers shortly. The bloc division between the West (the US and countries of the Western Europe) and the East,…
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India’s Role in Afghanistan Post-Taliban Takeover: Assessing Strategic Interests, Challenges and Opportunities
Afghanistan has been a land of graveyards of empires since colonial times. Britishers, Soviets, Americans, Pakistanis, Taliban, and some titbits in the timeline of civilian governments have had their chance of trying to tame the untameable. But the continuous change in the governing bodies, having different geopolitical interests has cut off the country from its…
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The Need to Look Beyond the Nuclear Binary: Optimists vs Pessimists
The article will delve into the in-depth analysis of theoretical predictions made by Kenneth Waltz and Scott D. Sagan in their debate about the nuclear stockpiling between nations and its safety implications.