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ENHANCING INDIA-AUSTRALIA TIES THROUGH MARITIME TRADE

This article launches the NMF’s advocacy for closer India-Australia economic and strategic ties and argues that the synchronisation of bilateral maritime trade may hold the key to future growth in the relationship between these two critical…

UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION CABLES: VULNERABILITIES AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES RELEVANT TO INDIA PART-2

This is the second and concluding part of an article on submarine communications cable systems relevant to India. Part-1 focussed upon providing an overview of these systems and the vulnerabilities to which they are subject. This concluding…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 29 MARCH 2021 – 04 APRIL 2021

China’s 25-year economic cooperation agreement, worth $400 billion, with Iran, could subvert India’s attempts to establish itself as a reliable partner through modest investments in Iran’s port infrastructure. Elsewhere, India’s Adani…

UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION CABLES: VULNERABILITIES AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES RELEVANT TO INDIA PART-1

This two-part article aims to provide Indian policy-makers and lay readers alike with an overview of submarine communications cable systems in India, highlighting their criticality, their vulnerabilities, and the inadequate protection they receive…

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MARITIME POLLUTION AND THE SHIPBREAKING INDUSTRY — CHALLENGES AND MITIGATION-OPTIONS

Given the temptation of South Asian governmental bureaucracies to view the shipbuilding industry solely in economic terms and as a generator of employment, this article seeks to draw the attention of lay readers and government officials alike…

RISE OF THE ROBOTS: WEAPONIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The history of human civilisation is a complex tapestry of individual and collective human development in the humanities and sciences interwoven with an apparently insatiable quest for power. This article concerns itself with some contemporary…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 22 MARCH 2021 – 28 MARCH 2021

The dislodging of the stranded MV Ever Given from the banks of the Suez Canal did not end the legal troubles of the Japanese owners of the ill-fated ship. Facing insurance claims by the cargo owners of ships stuck in the logjam and damage…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 15 MARCH 2021 – 21 MARCH 2021

The emergence of the instability in Mozambique as a new security threat on Africa’s east coast has attracted military assistance from Russia, the US, Portugal, France, Australia and South Africa. An expansion of an Islamist insurgency to the…

Indian Navy Commandos during Sea Vigil 21

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COASTAL AND OFFSHORE DEFENCE: LEVERAGING THE COASTAL SECURITY CONSTRUCT

Introduction The second edition of Exercise SEA VIGIL, a two day pan-India biennial coastal defence exercise, was conducted on 12 and 13 January 2021.[1] The exercise, which is India’s largest such exercise, was facilitated by central…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 08 MARCH 2021 – 14 MARCH 2021

A suspected Israeli angle to an explosion on board an Iranian container ship off Syria’s coast threatens to flare into another round of sea-based tit-for-tat strikes by these adversaries. An outbreak of hostilities, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic,…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 1 MARCH 2021 – 7 MARCH 2021

A surge of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea has led to calls for a major naval mission to police the maritime route off West Africa's two largest oil producers, Nigeria and Angola. Meanwhile, Singapore’s commitment to combatting the rise…

HOW ‘NON-ALIGNED’ SHOULD INDIA BE?

Introduction The last three decades have transformed global geopolitics. While the 1990s saw the dissolution of the USSR and the decline of Russia thereafter, the first two decades of the new millennium have led to the rise of China. The…