Important Editorials on Foreign Policy, National Security, Geopolitics & International Relationship
Understanding the Taliban for what it is
A realistic assessment of the circumstances in which it has to operate should have induced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan [...]
Fall of Kabul: On Afghanistan crisis
Key Points:- History came full circle on August 15 when the Taliban captured Kabul, almost 20 years after the U.S. [...]
[IR] Afghanistan, Taliban and USA’s Stealth Mid-night Exit
Syllabus Connect :- GS III (Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism) Context:- The [...]
[Geopolitics] India and China Border Dispute
The British organised a conference in Shimla in 1914, which the representatives of China and Tibet attended. The conference’s objective [...]
[IR] G-7’s counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
G-7 leaders finally came around with the proposed Build Back Better World (B3W) to counter China’s rising influence across 100-plus [...]
India-China relations, a year after Galwan
In June 2020, PLA troops “surprised” India in the Ladakh sector of the contested LoAC (line of actual control) where [...]
[IR] Indian diaspora pushed US to help India’s Covid efforts
On April 30, Super Galaxy, a huge US military plane, landed in Delhi, bringing oxygen cylinders, hospital equipment and Covid [...]
[IR] Fallout of America’s exit from Afghanistan
President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will pull out all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. [...]
[IR] Explained-USA exit from Afghanistan.
As the United States prepares to end its longest war, here is a timeline of the US’s war in [...]
[IR] IRAN deal and the IAEA
Even as the chicken-and-egg game is being played between the U.S. and Iran on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [...]
[IR] Indo-China LAC disengagement @Pangong Lake.
India’s negotiators ought to be commended for their efforts in ensuring a successful border disengagement at Pangong. […]
[IR] Brahmos and Manila Deal
Earlier this month, India and the Philippines signed the “Implementing Arrangement” for “procurement of defense material and equipment procurement”. This [...]
IR-India’s options in the Myanmar muddle.
NEW DELHI : In October last year, India’s foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane teamed up for a visit to [...]
IR – How And Why India Is Resisting RCEP ?
Indian Prime Ministerand Chinese Presidentmight have had a successful Sino-Indian summit at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu during 11-12 October. [...]
IR-China, Rare Earth and Geopolitical Backfire.
China is planning to ban exports of technology for refining rare earth minerals. Such a move, if taken, is likely [...]
FP & IR – From Panchsheel to Panch-Shield !!!
China’s propensity to nibble away at territories of its sovereign neighbours is too well-known by now to bear repetition. [...]
Geopolitics – Will India ever get an international pipeline?
What is the scope of an international gas pipeline to India? Is it bright or is it dim? [...]
Geopolitics-India’s policy choices in Afghanistan- “My Enemy’s Enemy: India In Afghanistan From The Soviet Invasion To The US Withdrawal”
In 1878, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the viceroy of India, was convinced that the Afghan amir Sher Ali Khan was getting too [...]
Geopolitics-100 year history of The Israel-Palestine conflict !!!
A timeline of the conflict which has its roots in the late 19th century. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has its roots [...]
Geopolitics-How India sees the world ?
Broadly speaking, there are four types of countries. One is large and rich; another is large and poor; a third [...]