Consultant, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp Capt Ajey Lele’s opinion piece ‘Space-related incidents during Taiwan’s elections’ has been published in ‘The Space Review’ on 29 January 2024.

There is a possibility that Taiwan could have used the opportunity of the flyover of the satellite launch vehicle to raise the China bogeyman during election time, says Gp Capt Lele.

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Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s research paper ‘Critical drivers of EU-India Security Cooperation: Pathways for Optimizing Convergence’ has been published under the EU- IndiaThink Tanks Twinning Initiative 2022-2023.

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Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s opinion piece ‘Beyond Macron-Modi bromance—what’s next for India-France partnership?’ has been published in ‘The Print’ on 26 January 2024.

A liberal France’s endorsement of India, right after a spectacular Ram temple consecration, will be a net positive for New Delhi in Europe, says Dr Rao.

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Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Ashish Shukla’s article ‘The Saga of Lifetime Dis-qualification and Re-qualification in Pakistan’ has been published by the International Centre for Peace Studies on 24 January 2024.

Given the complex nature and dynamics of inter-institutional and intra-institutional relationship, politics in Pakistan retains both the elements of unpredictability and of surprise as it is unfolding in the wake of the upcoming election, says Dr Shukla.

Consultant Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp Capt Ajey Lele’s opinion piece ‘The Moon is a Tough Customer’ has been published in ‘The Wire’ on 25 January 2024.

Even with technologically developed states like Israel and Japan, the private industry is not experiencing success with missions such as Moon landings, says Gp capt Lele.

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Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Deepika Saraswat’s article ‘Deciphering the shadow war between Iran, Israel’ has been published in Hindustan Times on 24 January 2024.

What is clear is that what started as a Hamas-Israel conflict three months ago has morphed into a shadow war between Israel and Iran, says Dr Saraswat.

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Research Analysts, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Nazir Ahmad Mir and Mr Muneeb Yousuf’s co-authored article ‘State Repression Is What Fuels the Conflict in Balochistan’, has been published in Jacobin Magazine on 24 January 2024.

The article analyses the causes of the Baloch conflict in Pakistan.

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Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s opinion piece ‘Is Europe’s pursuit of security delusional? West must fix its internal maladies first’ has been published in ‘The Print’ on 19 January 2024.

There has to be a collective pursuit of finding a new equilibrium for the world, says Dr Rao.

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Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Smruti S. Pattanaik’s article ‘India-Maldives relations and China’ has been published in ‘The Kathmandu Post’ on17 January 2024.

One may see anti-Indianism spike as the Maldives holds the parliamentary election on March 17, says Dr Pattanaik.

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Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Amb Sujan R. Chinoy discussed the theme of his book ‘World Upside Down: India Recalibrates Its Geopolitics’, published by HarperCollins India, at the Bhopal Literature & Art Festival (BLF) with Sh Pankaj Saran and Sh Shishir Priyadarshi, on 14 January 2024.