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Drone Warfare Capacity Building in Securing India’s National Interests
Harshini Nag

This paper seeks to make a case for the utility of drone warfare in securing India’s national interests. It begins by establishing how drone proliferation acts as a threat and opportunity in the context of India’s security objectives and discusse....

May 11, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Counter-terrorism , Internal Security , UAV , ISR , Military drones , UACV
Multilateralism Digest: March 2023 - Issue 3

Contents

  1. INDIA IN THE UN
  2. INDIA’S G20 PRESIDENCY
  3. MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS
  4. PLURILATERAL DEVELOPMENTS
  5. May 03, 2023 India , SCO , ASEAN , Counter-terrorism , Climate Change , BIMSTEC , G20 , World Bank , WTO , Food Security , Infrastructure , UN , Environment , ICT , Human Rights Council , Peacekeeping , Anti-Corruption , Multilateralism Digest , Least Developed Countries , Financial inclusion , Framework Working Group , Trade Investment , Carbon Tax , Global Terrorism Index , High Seas Treaty , UN Water Conference
Radicalization in India- An Exploration

Bharat has been at the receiving end of radicalisation and Islamic terrorism for over three decades. In the study of terrorism/counter-terrorism, the terms radicalisation, religious extremism, and terrorism are frequently used interchangeably. To exp....

January 09, 2023 Terrorism , Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Book Discussions , Counter-terrorism , radicalization , international terrorism , South-East Asia , Harkat network
Monthly Compilation of Views of VIF Expert Groups: April 2022
Naval Jagota

In the month of April 2022 Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized six expert group interactions with most of them being hybrid. All the interactions covered the relevant and engaging topics in the world and the region i.e. Sri Lanka, Uk....

June 03, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Israel , Pakistan , developments , Counter-terrorism , Sri Lanka , Conflict , NATO , Imran Khan , Political Crises , Shahbaz Sharif , Red Sea , geopolitical contestation , Implications , no-confidence motion , Russia-Ukraine , military equipment , India-US 2+2 meeting , Indo-US relationship , strategic discussion
A Compendium of Terrorist Groups
Soumya Awasthi

The last three decades has seen the South and West Asian regions turning into a hot bed of terror activities. Spreading from these regions, and alongside by many other isolated areas across the globe, terrorism today has become the biggest threat to ....

May 17, 2022 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Counter-terrorism , Compendium , Terror Groups , Terror activities
Taliban Triumph in Afghanistan and India’s Counter-Terrorism Policy against Islamist Extremism in Africa
Samir Bhattacharya, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

On 15th August, 2021, in a dramatic turn of events, Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, was taken over by the Taliban insurgent groups. While the collapse of Afghanistan government and its national army was somewhat predictable once the US announ....

September 06, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Article , India , Counter-terrorism , Al-Shabaab , Africa , Terrorism , Boko Haram , jihadist , Islamist Extremism
US-Taliban troop withdrawal deal
Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

After 18 months of negotiations, the US-Taliban signed the troop withdrawal deal in Doha on February 29 in the presence of representatives from 30 countries and international organisations, signalling the end of the 18-year old war in the country. Th....

March 02, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , India , Counter-terrorism , al-Qaeda , US-Taliban deal , troop withdrawal , Ghani government , intra-Afghan talks
Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: Review of Year 2019 and Projections for 2020
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

The year 2019 had significant developments in global terrorism. The review covers the important activities of terrorism and counter-terrorism (CT) around the globe. There have been ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen which includes terrorist a....

January 22, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , Pakistan , national security , Counter-terrorism , Afghanistan , Terrorism , Srilanka , al-Qaeda , UnitedKingdom , IslamicState , al-Qaida
Counter-Terrorism Framework of the United Nations and India’s Approach of De-Radicalisation1
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

Introduction
Due to lack of an internationally accepted definition, terrorism continues to haunt every nation in the World. The perspective of terrorism differs from a nation to nation; therefore, every country has its own definition and ....

September 26, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Counter-terrorism , Radicalisation , De-radicalisation , Terrorist , India’s Approach of De-Radicalisation
Pulwama and After
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

At least 44 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and 70 injured when a Maruti Eeco car laden with explosives rammed into a CRPF bus—part of a massive convoy—in Awantipora town of Pulwama District in Jammu and Kashmir (....

February 27, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Counter-terrorism , Pulwama retribution , Indian Army’s valour
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