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Mining India’s troubled history of coal and politics (Gareth Price, Chatham House)

The Indian delegation won many plaudits in Glasgow – demanding sufficient climate finance for developing countries, updating its nationally determined contributions (NDCs) for the...

The Belt Without a Road: Difficulties With the Transport Component of Russian-Chinese Cooperation in the Far East (Andrey Gubin, Valdai Discussion Club)

The Russian Far East (RFE) invariably attracts Beijing’s attention. Chinese researchers do not exclude that the PRC will be able to redirect some transcontinental transit flows through...

A Critical Assessment of the Quad from an Indian Perspective (Amruta Karambelkar, VIF)

Few foreign policy matters generate opinions as polarising as over the Quad. The prime point of difference is over what the Quad ought to...

Maritime Security in the IOR : Counterpiracy and the India-Australia Maritime Cooperation (Anushka Saxena, VIF)

The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is significant for a number of reasons. To begin with, it serves as the global hotspot for naval trade...

Purges in Security Apparatus Indicate Xi Jinping Faces Resistance (Jayadeva Ranade, VIF)

The months till the 20th Party Congress scheduled for late next year are fraught with risk for China and its neighbours. It is a...

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on India’s federalism (Ramanath Jha, ORF)

No country in the world, whatever be its political architecture, went unscathed from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus engendered an unprecedented crisis...

A new US policy on Africa: Genuine reset or same old rhetoric? (Abhishek Mishra, ORF)

Last week, United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during his three nation—Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal—sojourn to sub-Saharan Africa unveiled a new United States...

Five challenges that would shape the outcome of NEP 2020 (Niranjan Sahoo, ORF)

In July last year, India unveiled its first and most comprehensive education policy of the 21st century. As the first omnibus policy since 1986, the...

The grim calculus behind Afghan tragedy (Harsch V. Pant, Kriti M. Shali, ORF)

It’s been more than three months since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and the situation in that country continues to worsen by the day. The ongoing...

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