The November 2024 India–Japan UNICORN masts deal for fitment on-board Indian Navy ships ushers in a new era of bilateral defence cooperation.

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 ...

Lawrence Freedman and Heather Williams have given a sweeping narrative of the changing nature of warfare in the digital age. The emergence and uncontrolled proliferation of information technology and ...

Recently, in an interview with the French daily, Le Matin, the Prime Minister in discussing the developments in Afghanistan is reported to have pointed out that country is on the Soviet border. The ...

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 ...

The national security of a country is closely tied to the welfare of its border residents. The unsettled boundary dispute between India and China in Eastern Ladakh has far-reaching consequences for ...

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), ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Ashok K. Behuria’s Issue brief ‘Visit of Sri Lankan President to India: Issues at Stake’ has been published by International Centre for Peace Studies… Continue ...