Pranay K Shome

–The writer is currently working as a Research Associate at Defence Research and Studies (dras.in) and is a columnist. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

The Security and Geostrategic Aspects of India’s G20 Presidency

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  India - the world’s largest democracy and a civilisational state in the current capacity as the G20 president - is playing a monumental role in not only putting in order a fragmented global order...

Is World Politics Still Influenced by Cultural and Religious Frictions?

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  Human life and institutions are considered to be constantly in a dialectical state. Institutions, empires and socio-political structures emerge, rise and finally wither away. More so in the case of political and cultural theory,...

Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ushering in An Era of No War

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones,” said Albert Einstein. This grim observation was made in the aftermath of...

Democracy in Peril

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Democracy can be messy, it can be cacophonic, decision-making can suffer from deadlocks, consensus may be a luxury, people’s will can sometimes appear to be tyrannical to quote De Tocqueville, but despite all these...

India’s Foreign Policy in 2022 and the Challenges Ahead

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The year 2022 has been quite an eventful year in the diplomatic journey of the world’s sixth-largest economy. To begin with, the year has been dominated by the egregious February 24 Russian invasion of...

Afghanistan Back to the Dark Ages

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  "You educate a man, you educate a man, you educate a woman, and you educate a generation,” said Brigham Young; unfortunately this aphorism is not at all understood by the Taliban. In a recent...

Treading Carefully with Pakistan

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  The same wine in the new bottle; this can be rightly said in the context of the appointment of ex-ISI chief Asim Munir as the chief of the Pakistani army. Asim Munir, who is...

Iran on the Brink

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  It is said that social institutions are dynamic in nature. They are conditioned by various internal and external forces. No country is immune to these changes. Religion and social customs are especially subject to...

A Pax Indica Order

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  Change is the rule of the world. Nothing remains static; everything is dynamic, for everything changes. This rule perhaps applies best to the realm of global politics. The G20 summit, which is meeting in...

The Conundrum Named Xi

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  The anointment of Xi Jinping, the incumbent president of China, as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and as the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in the recently...

Getting Ties Back on Track

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  Foreign policy in today’s age is guided primarily by a combination of realism and pragmatism. This is exactly the case with India. The abstention of India at the United Nations Human Rights Council vote...

Impact of Technology on War

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  Homo sapiens evolved over time. In the evolutionary process of human history, war has been a crucial feature of their lives. The war happened for various reasons - be it for religion, wealth, race,...

Russia-Ukraine War: Lessons For India

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  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”, said Napoleon Bonaparte, the French political and military leader. The Russo-Ukraine war is in its eighth month. When the invasion of Ukraine was launched...
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