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

Democracy in Peril

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

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

  "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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  "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...

INS Vikrant and the Great Power Game

  Alfred Thayer Mahan, the renowned naval strategist and a former admiral of the American Navy, said, “Sea power is the key to the building up of an empire”. Perhaps the commissioning of India’s first...

On A Razor’s Edge

  The United States of America recently carried out a precision drone strike which killed the leader of the dreaded terror organisation Al-Qaeda’s Emir Ayman Al Zawahiri. This is considered as one of the biggest...

Future of West Asia and India Relations

  In foreign affairs conducting diplomacy is said to be doing the art of the possible. It denotes that through negotiations and mutual consultations even the toughest of problems can be solved. In that context...
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