... decide if its goal in the region is to occupy the strategic vacuum that the US left, like in Afghanistan, or to balance US re-insertion into South Asia, especially in the Indo-Pacific context.
— Russia also needs to work out its stance towards the Indian Ocean and South Asia maritime security. Here it can join China in its or become an autonomous stability actor itself.
— Russia should also develop a larger grand strategy in the region. As for now, it only focuses on sectoral issues, but other great powers have ...
... vital interests. Looking North is now more imperative than ever before.
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. Discussion of the authors on this theme with Amb Jayant Prasad, former Director-General, IDSA.
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. The two energy projects – the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, and the Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000) which is expected to bring Tajik and Kyrgyz hydropower to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and evolve into the Central Asia-South Asia Regional Energy Market (CASAREM), once the planned Central ...
Creation of Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) was an attempt to carry the perennial fight against nuclear proliferation. Group was created in 1974 when India steadily carried out the nuclear explosion which irreversibly changed the strategic environment in South Asia. Now, Indian inclusion in this group is receiving the close review of analysts and strategists. Primarily, NSG was formed to prevent the nuclear proliferation by all means including overseeing the re-transfer, export and protection of all kind of materials ...
... States do not see Indian nuclear weapons as a threat to their interests – at least not yet. India’s current nuclear posture follows an aggressive trajectory whereby the production of advanced weaponry directly affects the strategic stability in South Asia. India’s plans to produce newer type of delivery systems—including submarine-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, inter-continental ballistic missiles, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles — necessitate testing for validation of ...
... 100 speakers from 35 countries. The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), represented by its Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, was invited to participate in panel discussions.
The conference focused on identifying the place and role of South Asia, above all India, in shaping the development of the Indian Ocean region as a whole and its influence on global processes. Therefore, the organizers suggested discussing not only the issues that traditionally affect India’s interests along its borders, but ...
The Republic of India, the world’s second most populous country, is the core and central component of South Asia. To the north-east it borders Pakistan. Indian maps show Jammu and Kashmir marked as Indian territory and also its common border with Afghanistan. Along the Himalayas to the north-east its neighbors are the Peoples’ Republic of China (Xinjiang Uighur and Tibet autonomous regions), Nepal ...
