International Relations and Policy – Page 11

Paradiplomacy in the Indian Context: The Opportunities and Challenges

The recent UAE visit of Kerala Chief Minister, Pinari Vijayan highlights the growing importance of India’s states in foreign policy – due to a variety of factors – economic and non economic.
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The 1947-1948 India-Pakistan war: What do we see today?

Relations hitched with barbs, India and Pakistan continue to struggle with questions that emerged over 75 years ago. The article aims to deconstruct and understand this seemingly stagnant parley from a vantage point, seeking to evaluate the spillovers of the conflict today.
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How Web 3.0 will change International Relations

The future of the study of international relations will have to catch up with the steady rise of Web 3.0 going forward. As Web 3.0 recognizes no borders, the implications for international society and the relevance of the present state-centric world order shall be colossal.
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The Macro View on Why the USA Ultimately Lost Afghanistan

At the end of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Washington torn between Democrats and Republicans frantically began finger-pointing. This article takes a macro, retrospective view. It vouches that the Afghanistan failure is rooted in a more central American tendency. Throughout the article, that tendency is defined and explored.
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Aesthetics in International Relations: Reportage, Colonialism, and Modernity

This article aims to explore the idea of aesthetics in International Relations. It seeks to find an answer to explain the dominance of Western aesthetics in contemporary discourses through colonialism and highlights the all-pervasiveness of this aesthetic even in non-western contexts.
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The Changing Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific

This article looks at the Indo-Pacific with a critical lens. It seeks to answer why the Indo-Pacific is a region of great importance in the arena of international affairs today, and examines the nature of recent military developments with a tangential focus on the changing role of the state actors in the economic and strategic…
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The Third World’s Modern Origins

The genesis of the ‘Third World’ categorization lies in the nature of modernity exported by the First World. Asish Singh explains this with the example of eighteenth-century famines in India.
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Girl Groups and Gender Gaps: The Globalization of Gender Stereotypes Through K-Pop

The meteoric rise of K-Pop stars as celebrity diplomats has exported various aspects of South Korean society to the rest of the world. This article explores how some of the nation’s more damaging characteristics, such as its highly unequal gender perceptions are being amplified by the growth of the K-Pop industry.
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Analyzing the South Korean Cultural Wave

With the rise of K-pop, K-dramas and Korean Cinema, this article seeks to analyze Hallyu, or the South Korean Cultural Wave as a soft power tactic by the country to rebrand itself as a rising eastern power in the world stage. It looks at the role this wave plays in political diplomacy, especially with countries…
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From Eye-to-Eye to Toe-to-Toe with China

This article looks at the rise of China and tries to understand the increasing apprehension against it. It analyses the transformation of China’s foreign relations with the world, especially the US and gives insights into what changed its behaviour. The increasingly manipulative role of China in global politics makes it important to understand its rise…
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Side-lined States : Djibouti Call

This article sheds light on the importance of Djibouti – a state that has been conveniently left out of the popular international narrative. It provides an insight into Djibouti’s systemic marginalisation and key economic and strategic role. The realisation of its importance is a step forward in the creation of a conducive environment for the…
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India-Taiwan trade relations: Benefits for India in implementing a trade agreement with Taiwan

In this article, the author intends to highlight the economic benefits of India-Taiwan FTA while taking into consideration the “One China Policy”.
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