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INDIA'S ENDEAVOUR TO REBOOT SHIPPING INDUSTRY: RATIONALE AND IMPLICATIONS

QUADRILATERAL SECURITY DIALOGUE (QSD) AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR INDIA

CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO VERDICT OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

On 25 February 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its verdict in favour of Mauritius, over the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago and asked the United Kingdom (UK) to hand over the disputed islands to the former. It…

NAVAL AIR STATIONS AS CATALYSTS FOR STATE ECONOMIES

In recent days, some newspapers in Goa have reported on issues of No Objection Certificates (NOC) that the Indian Navy provides for certain buildings, development and infrastructure at a specified radius around the Naval Air Station (NAS), Dabolim.…

POLITICAL CRISIS IN SRI LANKA: CHINA AND THE MARITIME DIMENSION

In late October 2018, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena set off a constitutional crisis by sacking Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replacing him by Sirisena’s predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa. i With Sirisena later dissolving…

VIZHINJAM PORT: A MARITIME- STRATEGIC CAPITAL?

KENYA, ANOTHER CHINESE TAKEOVER IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION?

The spectre of the takeover of another strategically located port by China in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is looming large these days. In Kenya, a leaked report from the Auditor-General's office states that the terms of a loan taken by Nairobi…

CYBER- WARRIORS FOR CYBER SPACE: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE US NAVY?

On 04 Jun this year, the US Navy (USN) took a rather unusual step in reintroducing the Warrant Officer-I (W-I) rank and inviting applicants in this rank for cyber warfare. The USN has had a complex history of warrant ranks as opposed to…

FIVE YEARS OF CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI): REVISITING BRI IN TANDEM WITH THE MALACCA DILEMMA

Introduction Five years ago, in September and October of the year 2013, the ‘Chinese Marshall Plan’ or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was unveiled in Kazakhstan and Indonesia by Premier Xi Jinping. Done to ‘enhance regional connectivity’,…

CHINA AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ARBITRATION: ANALYSIS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC CONTEXT

EMPLOYMENT OF UNMANNED MARITIME SYSTEMS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC: LEGAL IMPLICATIONS AND THE WAY AHEAD

On December 16 2016, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) seized an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) in the EEZ of the Philippines, approximately 50 nautical miles North-West of the Subic Bay. The UUV belonged to the United States (US)…

INDIA AGAIN FAILS TO CONDEMN TERRORISM IN UN:A RELAPSE INTO AN OLD DISEASE

In an imprudent move, India abstained from a United Nations resolution brought to the General Assembly by United States of America on 6th December. The harmless resolution condemned Hamas for firing rockets into Israel which endangered the lives…