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

Asian Unity: No Longer a Pipe Dream

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  Recently, the Chinese President Xi Jinping has given a call for promoting Asian unity. He argued that the time has come for Asian nations to set aside their respective cultural, linguistic, economic and all...

Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy in the Contemporary World

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  The global human society is in a constant state of flux, every dimension and aspect of human activity is undergoing change. Politics is no different, especially international politics. Ever since the establishment of the...

Testing Times For Euro-American Unity

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Seven decades after the end of the Second World War Europe is on the brink of a new grave conflict that is testing not only the collective unity of Euro- American values but also...

Shifting Sands in the Neighbourhood

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  Change is the very law of nature. This completely fits in the context of the current Pakistani approach towards its shifting priorities. The first ever National Security Policy that the Imran Khan government has released recently...

Playing the Mediator

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  Iran and the West are again at loggerheads - this time over the increasingly ‘provocative’ Iranian demands vis-a-vis the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) or the Iranian nuclear accord. The West particularly the...

Himalayan Blunder

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  According to a Chinese proverb two tigers cannot stay on a single mountain. This seems to be absolutely fitting with the current Chinese foreign policy. China under Xi Jinping has shed its image of...

China-Hurtling Towards the Abyss

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  Xi Jingping is the man of the moment and why won’t he be, the National People’s Congress(NPC) - the Chinese ‘parliament’ has recently handed him an unprecedented third term in office, effectively elevating him...

Pakistan on the Brink

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  Statecraft and politics is all about making dangerous and risky choices which promotes the betterment of the people and helps in bolstering the popular legitimacy of the state, but it ostensibly appears that Pakistan...

Reorienting India’s Russo-China Policy

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  The Chanakyan dictum of “there are no permanent friends and foes in politics” fits perfectly in the context of the recent bonhomie between China and Russia and their common approach on multiple foreign policy...

Tackling China

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  There is a pattern in Chinese approach towards Taiwan-denying the legitimacy of the latter’s existence, reinforcing the principal of one China & the constant international propagation of the Chinese communist party’s message that Taiwan...

Pakistan-China-Taliban: A Troika of Challenges for India

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  The sudden and dramatic fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in a matter of days may have come as a rude shock to the world, but it came as most shocking to New Delhi,...

Clash of Civilizations- A Reality

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  The liberal order is once again in acute crisis, this time the focal point is Afghanistan. While a lot of articles, books and monographs have been written over the years, yet hardly any writer...

India’s Afghan Conundrum

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  It is coming back to where it all started two decades ago. The Taliban this time is in the driver’s seat, it is on a relentless northward march taking town after town, district after...
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