
SUSTAINABLE SHIP RECYCLING IN INDIA – SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
Abstract
This article is the second and concluding part of a two-part series on sustainable ship recycling which is the outcome of a project on “Sustainable Ship Recycling in India” being undertaken by a National Maritime Foundation (NMF)…
Credit: Google EarthTHE MERCHANTMARINE IN THE CROSSHAIRS: LATEST TOOL OF STRATEGIC MESSAGING?
Abstract
The economic wellbeing of a country is contingent upon free, open, and secure seas consistent with the prevalent ‘rules-based order’, through which global trade and energy can flow unhindered. The spillover of the Israel-Hamas…

SUSTAINABLE SHIP RECYCLING IN INDIA- LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Abstract: The Gulf of Khambhat, historically known as the Gulf of Cambay, is a bay in the Arabian Sea in the state of Gujarat on the west coast of India. Alang-Sosiya, where the majority of India’s ship breaking and ship recycling industry…

BOOK REVIEW - AUSTRALIA'S PIVOT TO INDIA
Andrew Charlton. Australia: Black Inc, 2023. 256 pages, Rs. 800 (online), ISBN 978-1760644772
Australia and India have long shared a unique bond, encompassing everything from cricket to a thriving Indian diaspora. The recently released…

THE RED SEA CONUNDRUM
There has been substantial commentary on the Suez Canal and the Red Sea since 19 November 2023, the day the Houthi rebels seized[1] the MV Galaxy Leader, a British-owned, Japanese-operated ship in the southern Red Sea, which was carrying Israeli…

CONSIDERATIONS OF LAWFARE (PART 3) CASE STUDIES AND STATE RESPONSES
Keywords: Law, Lawfare, Responses to lawfare, Litigators, Litigation, Strategic litigation, China, People’s Republic of China, Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The preceding two articles in this specific series-of-three explored some of…

LAWFARE: TACTICS AND TECHNIQUES
Keywords: Lawfare, Law, War, Tactics, Legal tactics, Techniques of Lawfare.
The preceding article of this trilogy explored the definitions and concepts associated with lawfare. This follow-on piece explores the tactics and techniques…
Source: Earth.OrgMV WAKASHIO OIL SPILL AND ITS AFTERMATH
Back in 2020, two migratory birds flying over the Pointe d’Esny, south of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, were conversing:
Bird one: Hey, can you see the oil, all over the ocean? There’s a ship too.
Bird two: Yes, Buddy. The MV…

LAWFARE: DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS
Keywords: Law, Lawfare, International law, International relations, International affairs, War, Warfare, Attrition.
Introduction
Lawfare is an umbrella term for a wide variety of practices and techniques that are increasingly deployed…

THE INDIAN NAVY IN THE CHANGING GEOPOLITICS OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
(A Hindi version of this article has been published in the September 2023 issue of “Defence Monitor”, a leading Hindi language defence magazine published in India. This English version is published with permission of the Editor, Defence…

INDIA’S OUTLOOK TOWARDS SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND BEYOND: ‘CHANGING TACK’ IN CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT??
Abstract
In recent years, growing Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea has been a source of increasing discomfiture, particularly, for those south-east Asian countries — as also Taiwan — which have a long-standing dispute over…

THE CHINESE CONCEPTS OF “FACE” BY HSIEN CHIN HU: A CRITIQUE
It might, at first glance, appear odd that this critique of Ms Hsien Chin Hu’s article, The Chinese Concepts of “Face”[1] is being written at all. After all, the article was published in the journal, “American Anthropologist” in…
