International Relations in India & Beyond
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), founded on 23 May, 2022 is a culmination of 14 countries which seek an open, inclusive, interconnected and secure Indo-Pacific for sustainable growth. The 14 IPEF partners which came to...
Understanding “Indo-Pacific” In order to understand the initiative of “QUAD”, we need to understand what we mean by “Indo-Pacific” in politics. In its widest understanding, it refers to the nations and islands that surround...
Maritime alliances amongst QUAD members are leading to novel and recurrent engagement concepts addressing the Indo-Pacific security system. Having built a fascinating vision and a whole “spirit of the QUAD,” this arrangement has a...
The annual edition of the India-USA joint military exercise “YUDH ABHYAAS” will be held at Auli in Uttarakhand in October 2022. The 18th edition of the bilateral exercise will be held some 100km from...
Indo –Pacific region has traversed a long path in graduating from its erstwhile terminology of Asia-Pacific such that now the former not only subsumes the latter but also carries the weight of diverse stakeholders...
The term Indo Pacific was introduced by British lawyer James Richardson Logan in 1850. (Medcalf 2020, 60) The dominant notion behind the concept of Indo Pacific is the ‘connections across two oceans’ i.e., the...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, in a series of critical comments about China he made in Tokyo that an aide said represented...
Is there a lot of bilateral diplomatic substance or just signalling? 2011 was a very tumultuous year in US-Pakistan relations. It began with an incident in January, an incident known as the Raymond Davis...
At one point in time, the Chinese Navy started as a coastal defence force protecting its shores. It has since then rapidly become a massive group of integrated fleets capable of expanding further like...
Confrontation with China is not inevitable, but the United States must stand up with its allies for a rules-based system threatened by Chinese aggression, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday. Blinken was speaking...
