United States

Paper No. 6739                               Dated 23-Jan-2021

By Dr Subhash Kapila

South Asia in 2021 has emerged as a geopolitical minefield where the strategic landscape has twisted on its head reducing United States to be challenged by China & Pakistan, put together, which till a decade back figured in positive contours in US policy formulations on South Asia.

Paper No. 6731                     Dated 11-Jan-2021

By Dr Subhash Kapila

United States China-Policies 2021 under incoming President Joe Biden are under global cynosure more than in earlier decades not because United States has changed but because China since 2013 has displayed predatory aggression inducing China Threat palpability beyond Indo Pacific combines.

   Paper No. 6724                             Dated 4-Jan-2021

By Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra,

Initial steps towards the peace process in Afghanistan were taken in mid-2018 with senior American officials secretly traveling to Doha to open talks with the Taliban. This breakthrough was geared up with the appointment of Zalmay Khalilzad as the US State Department’s special representative for Afghan reconciliation in September 2018. However, each round of talks, though starting out with some optimism, fizzled out, followed by enhanced insurgency and violence.

Paper No. 6716                         Dated 21-Dec-2020

By Dr Subhash Kapila

India stood firmly embedded as ‘Natural Ally of the West” in 2020 as future historians of India’s foreign policy would record in the years to come assessing from the pattern, trend and intensity of  India’s strategic partnerships exhibited in India’s foreign policy 2014-20 under BJP PM Narendra  Modi.

Paper No. 6704                           Dated 17-Nov-2020

By Kumar David