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AFSPA: Issues & Challenges
The Indian Parliament espoused the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA) in 1958 as an exigency provision that granted exceptional powers to India’s Armed force used by them in the areas termed as ‘disturbed’. The AFSPA ordinance, which was passed in 1958, was revoked and enacted within months as an act. However, it was only
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Sino-Iranian Strategic Partnership: Can This Dangerous Friendship Destabilise the Region?
China under President Xi Jinping is risking imperial overstretch with post-pandemic aggression as the premier seeks to press China’s advantage in the region amidst the heightened rate of coronavirus contagion in neighbouring countries. While China’s neighbours are facing the crucial challenges of flattening the epidemic curve and ensuring quick economic recovery, the former has opened
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Vitality of Non-Aligned Movement in today’s Global Affairs
On 4th May, 2020, PM Modi participated in the online Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit, where he claimed that NAM has ‘often been the moral force of the world’ (Modi, 2020). While asserting the importance of NAM in a world ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, he called for a ‘new template of globalization based on fairness,
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Environmental Deregulation amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic : India’s Draft EIA Notification 2020
The Covid-19 Pandemic has reinforced the divide between the Global North and South, specifically in terms of the response mechanism adopted by states to address the crisis. On 27th May, Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, while presenting the ‘Next Generation EU Proposal’ in a plenary session of the European Parliament,
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What’s ‘New’ in China’s New National Defence White Paper 2019?
After four years gap, on 24 July 2019, the Chinese Defence Ministry in Beijing published its White Paper titled “China’s National Defence in the New Era”, highlighting various aspects of its defense and security objectives. It outlines defense policy goals, reforms, tasks, and role of the armed forces that is being undertaken by the People
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The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act – A Genie that Needs to be Bottled
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Problems for Indian security
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