Region: South Asia

Working Paper #66, 2022

The new geopolitical realities recalibrate the agenda for BRICS, making certain initiatives in finance or food security urgent for all member countries

On April 12, 2022, Usanas Foundation, India, held an international conference on the impact of Russian-Ukrainian conflict on the system of international relations and global stability

If China’s vision of BRICS+ provides the broadest horizontal span of the Global South, Russia’s vision of BRICS+ prioritizes the depth and alignment of integrating BRICS states’ priority…

On April 12, 2022, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Gateway House held a closed-door round table titled “Russia-India Cooperation under the Impact of Sanctions”

Looking ahead, Pakistan will need to purge illegal foreign influence from its democracy

The conference was attended by leading international experts, diplomats and public figures from India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Iran, Great Britain, and Russia

Amid the spikes in geopolitical risk witnessed in recent years, there may be a need to explore some of the reserves in international mediation and diplomacy

The new stage of the Ukrainian crisis will have global consequences. For some, it will bring short and medium-term costs, and very significant ones. For many, however, it will create opportunities to…

Lack of democratic legitimacy must be grappled with – not only for the European Union as an elitist project but also for other multilateral organizations that perform regulatory functions

Putin’s move has been dubbed a “war of choice” by the U.S. administration—in fact, Russia’s military retaliation has been forced on it by the U.S. Russia’s primary concern now is to prevent…

On February 4, 2022 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) briefed the experts from the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF, India) on the recent developments in the…