Arnab Dasgupta

Japan’s diplomatic engagement with Pacific Island Countries, while substantive, has not addressed their core needs.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• March 20, 2024 |
• Issue Brief

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• March 06, 2024 |
• Issue Brief

Japan made great strides towards developing an independent foreign policy, even as it hewed closer to the Global North’s positions on the burning issues of 2023.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• December 21, 2023 |
• IDSA Comments

Japan and China are utilising parallel strategies to influence each other and the world over the latest fault-line in their contentious relationship.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• November 03, 2023 |
• IDSA Comments

Japan’s new supplementary defence budget focuses on hardware, personnel and bases.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• October 18, 2023 |
• Issue Brief

Okinawa prefecture has the potential to be a new factor affecting Japan-China relations, unless the Japanese government can manage local grievances.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• August 04, 2023 |
• IDSA Comments

With increasing North Korean nuclear and missile threats, and Chinese nuclear force modernisation, the prospects of indigenous nuclear weapons acquisition by Japan and South Korea cannot be ruled out.

• Abhishek Verma, Arnab Dasgupta |
• August 03, 2023 |
• Issue Brief

Japan’s proposal to host a NATO liaison office in Tokyo is facing objections from NATO members like France, who view it as a distraction from the alliance’s core task of ensuring security in Europe.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• July 10, 2023 |
• IDSA Comments

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia provides glimpses of how India can best exemplify the voice of the Global South.

• Arnab Dasgupta |
• June 07, 2023 |
• Issue Brief

India and Japan as Chairs of the G20 and G7 respectively can play a key role in ensuring that global nuclear instability is effectively managed.

• Arnab Dasgupta, Abhishek Verma |
• May 19, 2023 |
• Issue Brief