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STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION

        The term “strategic communication” has emerged as a buzzword within the existing public discourse in India.  While the term has been a part of the strategic lexicon since time immemorial, it has…

SOUTH AFRICA’S OCEAN20 — WHY THE G20 NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND AFRICAN OCEANS BETTER

    Keywords G20; Oceans20 (O20); South Africa; African Union; Ocean20SA; Ocean Actions, Green Renewable Energy; Just Transition Each year, once the G20 Leaders’ Declaration is released, stakeholders across sectors…

LEVERAGING THE KOREAN MODEL FOR MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN INDIA

      Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has come to be globally acknowledged as a central mechanism for integrated and sustainable ocean governance.  Conceptualised as an ecosystem-based and area-oriented planning framework,…

REVIEW OF “THE BLUE COMMONS: RESCUING THE ECONOMY OF THE SEA”

    Author: Guy Standing. Penguin Random House UK, 2022. 584 pages, Rs. 965, ISBN: 978-0-241-47587-4 (Hard Bound) The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea, written by Guy Standing, draws attention to one of the planet’s…

TÜRKIYE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR INDIA VIS-À-VIS BANGLADESH — A BRIDGE TOO FAR

    Keywords: TÜRKIYE–BANGLADESH RELATIONS, INDIA–BANGLADESH TENSIONS, TÜRKIYE IN SOUTH ASIA, STRATEGIC COMPETITION IN SOUTH ASIA, INDIA–BANGLADESH MARITIME COOPERATION, GEOPOLITICS OF BANGLADESH, EXTERNAL ACTORS…

BEYOND CAUTION: REFRAMING INDIA–TAIWAN COOPERATION IN A TRANSFORMING INDO-PACIFIC

  The connections between India and Taiwan are relatively recent, carefully calibrated, and often astonishingly understated, yet they carry considerable scope for constructive cooperation.  Taiwan increasingly demonstrates areas…

ENHANCING DEFENCE INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION WITH VIETNAM

  Keywords: India-Vietnam; Comprehensive Strategic Partnership; Defence Industry Cooperation; Maritime Security; Indo-Pacific The ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ between India and Vietnam, signed in 2016, has progressively…

THE 'ECONOMICS OF GEOGRAPHY' - THE UNDERLYING 'ZERO-SUM-GAME' OF THE INDIA-US RELATIONSHIP A 'STRATEGIC-RESOURCE'-BASED VIEW

  There has been a cataclysmic outpouring of both disappointment and anger across the world, and more recently in India, with President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs as a repressive tool to preserve the hegemony and dominance…

RESOURCE MINING AND OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS IN INDIA

On 28th November 2024, India’s Central Government —  more specifically the Ministry of Mines — launched the first tranche of thirteen offshore blocks for auction.[1]  Three of these blocks are for ‘construction sand’ off the coast…

APPROACHES FOR THE “INDO-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP FOR MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS” (IPMDA) TO ACTUALLY DELIVER ON ITS PROMISE

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) defines maritime domain awareness (MDA), as, “the effective understanding of anything associated with the maritime domain that could impact (the) security, safety, the economy or the marine environment.”…

THE POWER OF THREE AT SEA: INDIA’S TRILATERAL PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION

KEY WORDS: TRILATERALS, CRITICAL MINERALS, INDIA-FRANCE, SUBMARINE CABLES. Trilaterals represent a pragmatic diplomatic relationship designed to overcome the inherent limitations of both, purely bilateral engagements (which often have limited…
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“INDONESIA’S MARITIME DILEMMA — BETWEEN LEGAL CONSISTENCY AND STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY”

Keywords: Indonesia, China, DOC, COC, Code of Conduct, Indo-Pacific, MAHASAGAR.   Indonesia’s Geostrategic Centrality in the Indo-Pacific Indonesia occupies a geostrategic position along some of the world’s most vital international…

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