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Cyber threat to Nuclear Facilities- A Real and Present Danger

The number of incidents reported, especially concerning the critical infrastructure, is moving up at a fast pace. The defense of the nuclear plants has already been highlighted as indispensable among important security…

The Praxis of Indo-Pacific: Mapping the Impediments and Challenges

The international political order is witnessing a formidable churn in current times. The indomitable China’s rigorous pursuit of its maiden cross-continental connectivity project, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is simultaneously developing with a…

Contextualizing India’s Strengthening Regional Role through the ‘Indian Ocean Conference 2019’

The IOR’s importance is not just about traffic and sea lanes but much more. More than half of the world’s armed conflicts are currently in the Indian Ocean region, while the regional…

Locating India’s Engagements in the Indo-Pacific

India’s multipolar engagement in the region is not any different from that of the major actors of the region. India seeks to involve and engage all major actors in the region as…

Indo-Pacific Vision: Contest or Cooperation?

As a Philippian scholar once wrote, geography does not change, but perception does. India’s emphasis on inclusiveness definitely raises challenges for it to maintain the balance between the varieties of stakeholders in…

U.S. 2020 Elections and the Shadow of Russian Cyber Interference

US political circle, investigation agencies, and the private sector are preparing, keeping in view the reports of the possibility of large scale interference in the upcoming 2020 Presidential elections.

The Path to Promote a Solid Development of China-India Relations: People-to-People Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations

How can China-India relations be defined: as enemies, rivals, or partners? The answer is neither yes nor no. According to the “pan-familism” of  Eastern society and “inclusive universalism” of Cultural tradition, the…

Can Israel’s Special Partnership with India be a Gateway for further Asian Inroads?

The new world order with multipolar tendencies truly counters the idea of a single dominant power. Israel’s pivot to Asia is one of the notable examples of this argument, and India can…

What’s ‘New’ in China’s New National Defence White Paper 2019?

the message of  China’s new defense White Paper is amply clear and New Delhi should read the new White Paper through the prism of safeguarding its own national interests, both regionally and…

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