Category International Relations and Strategic Studies

EPA 2024

India-Sri Lanka Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) 2024: Strengthening Economic and Strategic Partnership

The EPA signed in 2024 emerged from the context not merely as a recovery mechanism for Sri Lanka, but as a test case for India’s evolving regional economic diplomacy. As someone seeking to understand how bilateral cooperation is shaped by mutual dependency, geopolitical calculations and economic leverage. This agreement offers a timely lens in  which to explore the political economy of regional integration. Hence, this article attempts to examine the EPA not just as a policy document, but as a strategic narrative. Critics question  whether it reflects a shift toward mutualism or masks deeper asymmetries beneath an ambitious framework.

Bridging Continents:PM Modi’s Ghana-to-Brazil Tour and India’s Global South Vision

Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a five-nation tour starting with Africa and ending in Africa, with a significant focus on Africa throughout and the Global South as the overarching context. Speaking at the last leg of his tour at the Namibian Parliament, Prime Minister Modi reiterated his 10 guiding principles of India’s Africa policy, which he had first laid out in 2018 while addressing the Ugandan Parliament.

World Refugee Day-20 June: Solidarity with Refugees

World Refugee Day (June 20) was established by the United Nations to commemorate the millions who are forced to escape persecution and war. Since solidarity involves listening to and defending rights, solidarity as a practice means that states and societies will allocate the resources, policies, and practices necessary to protect refugees: access to asylum, welcoming the new, and ending conflict. Solidarity also requires engaging against xenophobia, making empathy more concrete, and ultimately being supportive in context.

As UNHCR’s campaign page emphasizes, solidarity means saying courageously that refugees are “not alone” and that the world will “not turn its back” on them.

Beyond Sindoor: Terrorism, Tactics, and the Global Gaze

Post-Pahalgam, grey-zone warfare has been on full display, as Islamabad and Rawalpindi peddled fake narratives and carefully crafted a facade of innocence—attempting to mislead the world, especially the gullible Western audience—in the wake of heinous terrorist attacks and the killing of innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir by the Pakistan-based terrorist group, ‘The Resistance Front (TRF),’ an offshoot of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

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