A Continent’s Heart Beckons
India’s engagement with Africa is admirable, but its scale has to be widened further
India’s engagement with Africa is admirable, but its scale has to be widened further
The romance of the Sky Train—which runs 3,757 km and connects Lhasa to Beijing—lies in the stark beauty of the Roof of the World, an ancient land long closed to the public and foreign gaze as also in the modern engineering of the railroad and the train
From 19-20 June, Brussels-based think tank, Friends of Europe organised an online brainstorming on global security issues called Debating Security Plus 2018. As part of this, Gateway House co-moderated the discussion on hybrid and asymmetric warfare. Below is the summary of that discussion, from the final report of the Debating Security Plus.
A grand achievement is a series of smaller, well-defined, and precise accomplishments. If the vision of putting an Indian on the moon has to materialise, it should be preceded by several smaller projects and diverse institutions meeting definite targets. What would these targets be? Where does India’s scientific community stand in meeting them as of this day? What kind, and how much, additional capacity needs to be added to the Indian science sector to put an Indian on the moon?
The Indian Ocean has served as a keystone of global politics, economics and culture for centuries. In modern times, after World War II, it emerged as a focal point for great power competition and subsequently, of global commerce as the pivot of economic growth shifted from Europe to the Asia Pacific, a feature which has since remained constant.
The fourth summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has many implications for the countries involved. The agreements signed at the summit can only be implemented through a concerted effort by all parties.
Our Distinguished Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia analysed the BIMSTEC 2018 Summit in an op-ed for The Hindu.
Our Distinguished Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia wrote an op-ed for The Asian Age on India's position within various regional blocs.
BRICS has grown in influence in its first decade but is still far from achieving its initial goals
BRICS has grown in influence in its first decade but is still far from achieving its initial goals, opines our Dist. Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, for this op-ed in The Hindu. Read the full op-ed here.