Probing the past to better understand the present and prepare for an uncertain future. I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly in quantity or sophistication in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in part a scholarly response to global warming, biodiversity loss, volatile and extreme weather events, and climate change–related diseases.
The Sukhoi Su-35 has come under the spotlight after reports about Tehran s willingness to acquire the Russia-made fighters. It s not only Iran that has. 27.01.2023, Sputnik International
Russia is No Longer a Strategic Asset for India’s Foreign Policy Contemporary Trends 2020
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 12/29/2020 - 04:52
Paper No. 6719 Dated 29-Dec-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Perceptionaly, in 2020, analysing by contemporary trends of Russia positioned in a virtual military alliance with China, it loses its worth to Indian foreign policy as a ‘Strategic Asset’. Russia ceases to be even an existential counterweight for India against China’s contemporary military adventurism.
Russia’s value as a ‘Strategic Asset’ for Indian foreign policy in 2020 stands clearly ‘frayed’. Russia-India relations today are marked by more strategic divergences than strategic convergences of yesteryears
India as Natural Ally of the West- Reflected in Indian Foreign Policy Formulations 2020
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 12/21/2020 - 14:19
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.
India’s foreign policy narcisstic dalliance with Communist China by India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru until 1962 and Indian foreign policy flirtations with Soviet Union by Nehru’s daughter PM Indira Gandhi from mid-1960s to 1980s were deviant foreign policy adventurism with totalitarian Communist regimes totally at variance with Nehru’s commitment to democracy and democratic values.