... 2014, Nepal’s capital Kathmandu hosted the 18th SAARC Summit. After three years without a meeting, this was a landmark event in the political environment in South Asia. However, traditional differences between the two regional leaders – India and Pakistan – nearly torpedoed the Summit. Should this multilateral organization be analyzed from the perspective of the complex India-Pakistan relations, or should it be considered a solid platform for solving economic problems in the region?...
... a wider cooperation format. The main pressure points in this could be Armenian–Turkish relations and the confrontation between western countries and Russia over the Ukrainian question.
At the 17th St Petersburg Economic Forum in June 2013 the Indian delegation also initiated a process of negotiations on India’s entry into the Customs Union. However, no documents were signed. India is very interested in expanding trade and economic cooperation with Russia and Kazakhstan primarily. There ...
On October 17, 2014, a group of RIAC members and experts met Indian Ambassador in Russia P.S. Raghavan and several senior diplomats from the Indian Embassy.
The session was attended by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Dean of World Politics Department of Moscow State University Andrey Kokoshin, Director ...
New Delhi is not going to join any anti-Russian efforts and U.S. plans to contain China
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S. and his talks with President Barack Obama are no doubt an important development in fostering bilateral New Delhi-Washington ties, although on the surface it has hardly yielded any tangible ...
On the eve of prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, the Obama administration and friendly media have positioned the new Indian leader as a leader who is open to reforming big government and implementing free market policies. But critics of Modi say that the much heralded economic performance of his Gurajat state, based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is merely at parity ...
Conflict in the mountains
The meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan that was scheduled for 25 August 2014 in Islamabad has been postponed at the request of New Delhi because of the situation around Kashmir. So far there is no new date for the consultations. The Kashmir problem may become aggravated ...
The Glacier of Discord
The development of the political dialogue between China and India has been impeded by the frozen border conflict that could escalate into a major clash. But we should not exaggerate the threat of military confrontation between Beijing and Delhi, since their strategic interests are so far in sync.
This year India ...
Ability of the two countries to reach an amicable solution to the border dispute
The installation of a new government in New Delhi in May 2014 inevitably set off speculations about how this event would impact India-China relations. The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit at Fortaleza in July 2014 was marked by a positive atmosphere and raised expectations of a breakthrough ...
Interview
Every year on August 15 the world’s largest democracy celebrates its Independence Day. India is the fastest growing economy after China. But what drives its growth and how will the country’s economic policy change after the election of the new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi? We asked Andrei Volodin, Senior Research Fellow at Eurasian ...
... the post-war global history
Debasish Nandy
Debasish Nandy: It is very too early to comment regarding the role of BRICS controlling the world economy and international relations
Doctor of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of Kanchrapara College, India
In the last BRICS summit held in Brazil, mid of July, 2014, member countries have decided to establish an independent Bank for the member countries namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Asia. Apparently, this proposal is positive step towards ...
