This is the concluding pat of our series. If you have mastered the blogs posted here, you should be able to answer any question in both the IR paper as well as in General studies: Current Affairs International. We shall next take up in the next series India’s relations with Pakistan, West Asia and Central […]
Tag: strategic
22. India’s Strategic Environment: Part Six
In recent times, China has resorted to reiteration and re-assertion of claims on Arunachal Pradesh. There was shrill propaganda when the Prime Minister and the Dalai Lama went there. It suits the Chinese to keep the border dispute with India unresolved. Incursions have been widely reported and continue. Foreign policy mandarins offer a different perspective […]
21. India’s Strategic Environment: Part Five
Continued from the article mentioned in Part One (and all subsequent parts under the same heading as this). In July this year INS Airavat, an amphibious assault ship, sailed from the Vietnamese port of Nha Trang towards Hai Phong, and when it was forty-five nautical miles in the South China Sea, it was contacted on […]
20. India’s Strategic Environment: Part Four
Moving northwards to Nepal, seen from an Indian angle, it becomes apparent that it is in a bit of a mess. Having literally shooed the erstwhile monarch out of Narayanhiti Palace and carried the Maoists into the throne room, as it were, the first thing the Maoists did was to establish a major outreach programme […]
19 A. India’s Strategic environment Part Three
Continuing the article referred to in the first two units. If in Afghanistan New Delhi finds itself between a rock and a hard place, in Pakistan, the situation is even worse as several doomsday scenarios continue to be speculated upon, with endless variations: from a coup, the collapse of the economy, to nuclear weapons falling […]
19. India’s Strategic Environment Part Two
The Article referred to in Part 1 continued: Take Afghanistan, with which India shares a technical border, a notional line in official maps, but a country with which India has no direct land, rail, or sea link. India has committed $1.3 billion in various projects, built a 218-km highway between Zarang and Delaram to provide […]
18. India’s Strategic Environment Part One
The discussion in this blog is based on a penetrating article by Sri. V,Sudarshan in the Sunday Magazine of the Indian express of 13th Nov. 11. It is really very thought provoking article. I propose to have a series on this and I expect all students to participate thoughtfully. We shoud be really grateful to the learned scholar and […]