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As Peace Moves Gain Momentum In Afghanistan, Time For India To Engage With Taliban Pakistan, Russia, China, India, and Iran have stakes in the Afghan peace process AP/PTI Photo Seema Guha 2021-03-10T18:12:19+05:30 As Peace Moves Gain Momentum In Afghanistan, Time For India To Engage With Taliban outlookindia.com 2021-03-10T18:21:14+05:30 Also read The Biden administrations plans to kick-start the Afghan peace process and carry on from where Donald Trump left off h...

In Dhaka recently, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bangladesh visit later this month “will be memorable”. “Our relationship is so broad and our comfort level so high that there is no domain today that is left untouched,” he said after preparatory talks with counterpart, A K Abdul Momen. “It is a truly a 360-degree partnership,” Jaishankar tweeted and also underscored the significance of connectivity between the people of two countrie...

news Pakistan’s belt and road offer to Sri Lanka stokes India’s China concerns A Pakistani naval guard at Gwadar port. Photo: AFP Pakistans offer to Sri Lanka to join its multibillion-dollar trade and infrastructure scheme with China under Beijings Belt and Road Initiative has raised concerns in Indian policy circles, as New Delhi seeks to secure its influence in a region where Chinas presence is growing. On a two-day visit to Colombo last week, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged Co...

2088 1 PUZZLING: The issue that still baffles is what exactly the Chinese were seeking and what they achieved, or didn’t. PTI Manoj Joshi Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation How are we to look at the latest disengagement process between India and China in eastern Ladakh? As of now, the process has been applied in two places — Galwan in July 2020, after the horrific June 15 clash that took the lives of 20 Indian soldiers and four PLA personnel, and now on both banks of Pangon...

The vital but delicate task of reviving the Iran deal Updated: Updated: March 01, 2021 23:16 IST Time is running out for the Joe Biden administration, but there is an opportunity for Brussels to take a lead role Share Article AAA Time is running out for the Joe Biden administration, but there is an opportunity for Brussels to take a lead role Of all the foreign policy challenges facing the Joe Biden administration, none is more critical than salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JC...

Jaishankar begins two-day Maldives tour as India seeks to expand partnership in Indo-Pacific External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is likely to meet President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih & will hold discussions with ministers for foreign affairs & defence, among others. Nayanima Basu 20 February, 2021 9:54 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar began his two-day trip to Maldives Saturday as India seeks to expand its Indo-Pacific st...

February 17, 2021 This article is a part of  Agenda 2021, an edited series where experts provide ideas for strengthening U.S.-India and Europe-India cooperation in five different policy areas. It is part of GMF’s India Trilateral Forum, conducted in partnership with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation. India is an increasingly pivotal actor in the deluge of technology-centered coalitions and partnerships. It is part of minilateral groupings like the ...

This paper examines India’s ‘two-front’ dilemma in view of its conflicts with China and Pakistan, and the possibility that these two adversaries could join forces. The author studies historical events that could help outline the strategies that have been undertaken by certain countries to combat the combined power of multiple adversaries, usually exceeding their own. These include the Napoleonic strategy and the Israeli experience. In analysing these case studies, the paper focuses on the...

South Africa’s Covid-19 responses are marred by policy paradoxes. How does a country with one of the most sophisticated health systems in Africa account for the highest number of Covid-19 fatalities? This brief argues that contemporary approaches to South Africa’s social, domestic, and foreign policy responses should be viewed through the theoretical lenses of racial capitalism—a racially hierarchical political economy constituting war, militarism, imperialist accumulation, expropriation ...