... security architecture and, above all, success stories will significantly strengthen its regulatory foundations and increase its appeal with the countries of the region.
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Gleb Makarevich:
The Proof of the Pudding: Outcomes of the 25th SCO Summit for India and Pakistan
Russia’s initiative to create Eurasian security architecture remains in its early conceptual and political phase. However, its semantic core is clearly seen already now. The initiative is based on equal and indivisible security for all countries of the continent; it presumes abandoning ...
... While the agreement to keep discussions of bilateral issues off the SCO framework is still in place, moments of heightened confrontation may produce dramatic political gestures, such as a refusal to sign a
joint summit declaration
.
Julia Melnikova:
Eurasian Security as a Communicative Practice: Tasks for Russia and China
All the more notable, then, was the meeting between the Indian and Chinese leaders in Tianjin. Paradoxically, it was the bilateral talks between Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping that captured international attention. The parties discussed the need to move beyond confrontation toward cooperation, emphasized the ...
... involved in building the INSTC infrastructure as yet. For India, maritime transportation, mainly through the Suez Canal, remains the priority way of delivery of its own goods [
30
], while cargoes along INSTC are mainly directed to India, rather than from India to other countries.
Julia Melnikova:
Eurasian Security as a Communicative Practice: Tasks for Russia and China
At the same time, the INSTC gives New Delhi an opportunity to expand its presence in new markets. So far, India's trade with Central Asia and South Caucuses has been limited, but ...
... defence ties to China and the stated commitment to an
inclusive collective security system
in Asia. The challenge for the Indian leadership is how to balance its growing engagement with the United States and its ambitions to play a more central role in Eurasian security matters. These challenges are likely to have a lasting impact on Russia’s and India’s foreign policy agendas and might also affect their bilateral relations.
Potential participants to the system
Gleb Makarevich:
Inventing Eurasia: How Russian Proposals for a Collective Security System Harmonize with South Asian Realities
If ...
... with China) partners on the Eurasian continent. A delicate point here is that India is not in a vacuum, being an integral part of a complex subregional security architecture marked by military and political confrontation between two regional powers (India and Pakistan) and the involvement of external players, primarily China and the United States. To evaluate how viable the Russian leadership’s concept of Eurasian security is in the South Asian context, let us consider each of the principles laid out.
Principle one: no objections
According to the Russian leadership’s idea, the parameters of the future security system should be coordinated with all stakeholders ...
