The Glacier of Discord
The development of the political dialogue between China and India has been impeded by the frozen border conflict that could escalate into a major clash. But we should not exaggerate the threat of military confrontation between Beijing and Delhi, since their strategic interests are so far in sync.
This year India ...
Ability of the two countries to reach an amicable solution to the border dispute
The installation of a new government in New Delhi in May 2014 inevitably set off speculations about how this event would impact India-China relations. The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit at Fortaleza in July 2014 was marked by a positive atmosphere and raised expectations of a breakthrough ...
Interview
Every year on August 15 the world’s largest democracy celebrates its Independence Day. India is the fastest growing economy after China. But what drives its growth and how will the country’s economic policy change after the election of the new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi? We asked Andrei Volodin, Senior Research Fellow at Eurasian ...
... the post-war global history
Debasish Nandy
Debasish Nandy: It is very too early to comment regarding the role of BRICS controlling the world economy and international relations
Doctor of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of Kanchrapara College, India
In the last BRICS summit held in Brazil, mid of July, 2014, member countries have decided to establish an independent Bank for the member countries namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Asia. Apparently, this proposal is positive step towards ...
Buddhist soft power diplomacy
Over a millennium after its decline and virtual disappearance from India, Buddhism is making a comeback in the land of its birth. It has emergedas an important component of Delhi’s soft power diplomacy. Buddhism’s geographic spread, growing popularity, and image as a peaceful religion have contributed to ...
Bilateral Prospects
Appointed as prime minister of India last May 25, Narendra Modi of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made it clear on his very first day in office that he was willing to improve relations with Islamabad, something that would take a lot of political will given the long-standing ...
... that the Islamic population in Brazil is 204,000. But the website of the leading Islamic organization in Brazil claims that number should be 2 million. That figure is more than the 1.4 million Emirati citizens who occupy the United Arab Emirates.
India, with the largest Islamic population among the BRICS, shares porous borders with Islamic Pakistan (178 million) and Bangladesh (158 million), and beyond the headlines the relations between those nations are, and will continue to be problematic.
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On June 13-15, 2014, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev took part in the first symposium under the project "New Responses to Global Challenges in Finance, Energy Security and Climate Change: Cooperation between the U.S., Russia, China and India" held in Hong Kong.
The participating representatives of think tanks from the four countries discussed the global environment in 2014 and the changes underway in international economic relations through the prism of probable development patterns ...
The complexity of India’s foreign policy and domestic power dilemmas has led to many Western states inaccurately judging the country’s approach to intelligence strategy. India’s intelligence challenges break down most effectively into the categories of ...
... indicator of their technological development.
Currently, BRICS countries occupy different positions and perform different functions in the international aviation production system. Brazil is the undisputed leader among the BRICS countries in this sphere. India and China make up a separate category of countries that provide the technical conditions for the development of the world aviation industry. These countries offer services to aircraft manufacturers by producing parts and appliances and servicing ...