The UN turns 80 this year, and during its lifetime, it’s grown in membership and has dealt with various new global challenges. Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director, Gateway House speaks to Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations to discuss, a diminished U.S presence, the growing influence of China, its scope for reform and India’s position ...

Dec 19, 2024 · The advent of the pro-oil Donald Trump in the U.S. and the strong pushback by developing countries to the unsatisfactory COP29 proposals, has opened opportunities for India in the energy sector. Instead of investing in overseas oil facilities, India will be better served as a financial investor in listed companies in large economies. This approach will help forge closer ties with strategic ...

Dissanayake’s rice test. BY Amit Bhandari Sri Lanka’s new President Dissanayake is facing his first big test – rising rice prices. High import tariffs and a powerful rice mafia given to hoarding of the staple, are compounded by other market distortions.

Oct 31, 2024 · Gateway House presents a timeline that highlights the cross-border dynamics between Myanmar and India’s northeast. Myanmar’s military coup and breakdown of authority have aggravated existing local problems related to population displacement, border security, competition for resources and ethnic tensions. Now India must engage more directly with the entities that control land along its ...

Dec 16, 2021 · In six concise case studies, Vijay Gokhale, former Foreign Secretary of India, demystifies the Chinese style of diplomacy. The reviewer says the book makes a compelling case for how the lack of diplomatic experience of newly independent India’s leaders enabled the Chinese Communist leadership to outmatch and outmaneuver them in the early years, despite the latter playing a relatively weak hand.

“I joined Gateway House in October 2016, straight after a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Durham, U.K. I – like most internship applicants – came, eager to do research in foreign policy, but ended up involving myself in all the other aspects of a think tank as well, including outreach, HR, membership and meetings.

Oct 31, 2024 · The timeline records the daily instances and ongoing cross-border dynamics between India and Myanmar since the February 2021 military coup in Myanmar. It tracks the events taking place in the eight states along the Indo-Myanmar border—four states in India (Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Manipur) and four in Myanmar (Kachin, Sagaing, Chin, and Rakhine), revealing their social ...

Feb 8, 2024 · Tensions in West Asia have disrupted global shipping and revived interest in the Chennai-Vladivostok Eastern Maritime Corridor. Better freight and passenger connectivity between Southern India and Russia’s Far East will open new areas for bilateral cooperation such as the export of machinery, auto parts and engineering goods from India, and progressively integrate the economies of the two ...

May 12, 2015 · Sameer Patil, associate fellow for national security, ethnic conflict and terrorism studies at Gateway House, comments on security issues to be discussed during Modi's visit to China.

Nov 26, 2014 · In the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attack on 26 November 2008, several questions arose on what entity should be held legally responsible and the applicability of international instruments in prosecuting both state and non-state perpetrators.