Dr. Ranjit Kumar Dhawan is an Associate Fellow in the East Asia Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India. Earlier, he taught Korean Studies at the ...

After the removal of Bangladesh’s elected President, Sheikh Hasina, the country’s ambitious nuclear energy plan is facing a crisis. The current leaders and officials in Bangladesh appear to have ...

Summary The adoption of the UN Cybercrime Convention underscores the ability of multilateralism to navigate complex global ...

The Korean Peninsula is one of the highly militarised regions in the world. In the milieu of the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war since 2022, which has seen extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ...

This article adopts a systemic-impact understanding of middle power as an analytical framework to provide a nuanced understanding of Look East Policy under the Raisi administration. It analyses three ...

Deputy Director General, MP-IDSA, Gp Capt Ajey Lele’s article ‘ISRO POEM-4 shows the space agency is on song’ has been published in First Post on 01 January 2025. ISRO’s efforts in developing ...

he theory of Just and Unjust wars and the concept of Responsibility-to-Protect (R2P) have been central in the legal and political discourse surrounding the use of force. The recent conflict in Gaza ...

The description by General Zia-ul-Haq of the US military aid offer, which came immediately after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, as ‘peanuts’ and its rejection by him was not motivated by any ...

The Partition evokes not just emotions, memories of friendship, bonding but also loss of faith on humanity, despair, betrayal and losses amidst a range of coping mechanisms for those who left their ...

Humans have always distinguished themselves from all living beings by virtue of their intelligence. This special distinction has remained undisputed for centuries only to face a major challenge from ...

This article examines the interplay of development, militarization and culture of impunity in Balochistan. It contends that the State’s pursuit of large-scale infrastructure projects is intensifying ...

Deputy Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp Capt (Dr) Ajey Lele’s article ‘A Silk Road in Space: China’s Space Plan for 2050’ has been published in The Wire on 27 December 2024. The program ...