The India-Australia security engagement: Opportunities and challenges
Summary India wants to take a leading strategic role throughout the Indian Ocean region and expand its strategic reach further into the Pacific. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has commented, India...
View ArticleWe cannot sail through these waters alone
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh commented earlier this year, India now sees itself as a “net security provider” to the region. This reflects India’s aspirations to take a leading strategic role...
View ArticleIndia: Regional net security provider
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh commented earlier this year, India now sees itself as a “net security provider” to the region. This reflects India’s aspirations to take a leading strategic role...
View ArticleThe India-Australia Security Engagement
The India-Australia Security Engagement: Opportunities and Challenges This summary is a part of the larger paper, titled ‘The India-Australia Security Engagement: Opportunities and Challenges,’...
View ArticleShaping regional diplomacy
On February 9, the Indian Navy concluded its largest ever multinational naval engagement, Exercise Milan (meaning “a coming together”) in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The biennial naval rendezvous,...
View ArticleAustralia’s submarine choice
The debate in Australia over the future of its submarine fleet is heating up. The Australian government is now considering various options including the acquisition of a new fleet and its choices will...
View ArticleIndia’s Ocean: The story of India’s bid for regional leadership
The following excerpt discusses India’s intervention in Sri Lanka. The 1987 India-Sri Lanka Accord By early 1987, the Indian government had concluded that a political settlement would need to be...
View ArticleIndia’s Ocean: the story of India’s bid for regional leadership
The following excerpt looks at India’s role in the domestic power struggle in Mauritius during Indira Gandhi’s tenure as the Indian prime minister. The willing subordination of Mauritius In many ways...
View ArticleMalabar 2014: a good beginning
Warships from India, Japan and the United States are participating in the large-scale Malabar 2014 naval exercise off the southern coast of Japan. The exercise, hosted out of the port of Nagasaki,...
View ArticleIndia-Australia nuclear deal: a pivot point
One of the high points of the visit of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to Delhi on September 4 and 5 was the signing of a deal for the supply of Australian uranium to India. This marked a turning...
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