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SCO-RATS: Finding Common Ground against Terrorism

The efficacy of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure will depend on the member-states’ ability to focus on countering terrorism concerns while managing their divergent regional interests.

Escalating Tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban

Border clashes and failure to act against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have led to rising tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The PLA and Intelligentised Warfare

China is making increasing use of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), among others, to modernise the People’s Liberation Army.

Russia’s ‘Partial Mobilisation’ and Central Asia

Russia’s partial mobilisation has also had regional domestic repercussions, especially so in the Central Asian Republics.

Embedded Rivalry: Technology as an Arbiter in US–China Great Power Competition

Technology as an Arbiter of the US–China great power rivalry is starkly visible in both countries' recently released national security documents.

The 22nd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The main focus of the 22nd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Samarkand was on strengthening regional cooperation and trade connectivity in Eurasia.

Jason Wahlang
November 14, 2022 |
Backgrounder

Eastern Mediterranean: A Natural Gas Hub Worth Exploring

The Eastern Mediterranean offers India strong prospects for import of natural gas, given strong bilateral relations with regional countries, including Egypt, Israel, Greece and Cyprus.

The Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics: Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny, HarperCollins, Gurugram

The conspicuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan has resulted in a political vacuum, garnering immediate attention of regional and great powers alike. In The Comrades and the Mullahs, presenting Afghanistan’s long history of foreign invasions and resistance, journalists Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny show how the country was a theatre for the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires, and later got caught in Cold War rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has certainly become a diplomatic predicament for India.

China in India’s Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia: Chietigj Bajpaee, Routledge, Abingdon, UK

The commemoration of 2022 as the ‘ASEAN-India Year of Friendship’ marks thirty years of the partnership between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Beginning in 1992 with India’s ‘Look East Policy’ (LEP), renamed ‘Act East Policy’ (AEP) in 2014, India has progressed from being a Sectoral Partner of ASEAN in 1992 to a Dialogue Partner in 1996 and a Summit-level Partner in 2002.

A Decade of US ‘Pivot to Asia’

The Biden administration has further reinforced and strengthened US strategic priorities towards the Indo-Pacific, a decade after the ‘Pivot to Asia’ by the Obama administration.