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RELEVANCE OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS FOR INDIA: AN ASSESSMENT

Introduction The epic sea battles between aircraft carriers never recurred after the Second World War. In the post-war period, most carriers began to retire without even having participated in battle. Many countries that possessed carriers…

TRUMP'S TRADE WAR: A NEW THREAT TO THE 'QUAD'

The spillover of India’s determination to counter US trade threats could endanger nascent security dialogues in the Indo-Pacific. The idea of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, as it is often called, was mooted by Japanese premier…

THE ‘INDO-PACIFIC’ WITH INDIAN CHARACTERISTICS

JAPANESE NAVAL DIPLOMACY IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: PROSPECTS AND POSSIBILITIES

THE FOCUS IS ON INDO-PACIFIC

In the taxonomy of ‘Geopolitics’ and ‘Geo-strategy’, the prefix ‘geo’ refers to a country’s strategic geography, which is the core underpinning of its national-strategy. Geopolitics involves the satiation of the country’s geo-economic…

INDIA AND INDONESIA- STRENGTHENING MARITIME RELATIONS

India and Indonesia are maritime neighbours with a symbiotic relationship which can be utilised towards developing maritime cooperation in the region. The distance between India's Andaman Islands and Indonesia's Aceh is not more than 80 nautical…

COMCASA – WIND-VANE OF INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY?!

The United States has been prodding India to sign the communications, compatibility and security agreement, better known as COMCASA, for more than a decade. COMCASA is a version of CISMOA (Communication interoperability and Security memorandum…

COMMUNITY-ENGAGED MARITIME SECURITY: BEYOND 'EYES AND EARS'

In March 2018, as per media reports, Neil Basu, the Scotland Yard’s newly appointed Indian-origin Assistant Commissioner of Police responsible for counter-terrorism, launched a new campaign to urge the public to fight terrorism. According…

MARITIME COOPERATION AS A THRUST AREA BETWEEN INDIA AND INDONESIA

The upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, to Indonesia (later this month),is reflective of the strong desire of both the countries to work more closely together, in the face of the ‘rapidly evolving strategic realities’…

CHINA'S APPROACH TO FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION: NO SAIL ZONES

Introduction Torturous negotiations, involving much bargaining and several compromises, characterised the multiple sessions of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Although the Conference eventually succeeded in formulating…

REMOULDING MARITIME CULTURE IN THE INDIAN MIND

LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS: FROM FRAGILITY TO STABILITY

With a total land area of just 32 km2, the Lakshadweep Islands, which lie off the west coast of India, are the smallest of the Union Territories (UT) under the Government of the India (GoI). And yet, they contribute something like 20,000 sq.km…