Research Analyst, Ms Gulbin Sultana’s commentary on Sri Lanka’s model village built with Indian assistance, titled ‘Sri Lanka Inaugurates First Model Village Built with the Indian Assistance’ has been published by the All India Radio (AIR) World Service Blog on July 09, 2019.

India has undertaken more than 70 people-oriented development projects including the ongoing housing projects as well as projects in the fields of health, education, skill development, infrastructure, vocational training and so on, writes Ms Sultana.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's co-authored article titled ‘Foreseeing India-China Relations: The Compromised Context of Rapprochement’has been published by ‘Asia-Pacific Issues’, a peer-reviewed publication of the East West Centre, Honolulu, USA.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's edited volume ‘India and China in Asia: Between Equilibrium and Equations’ (Routledge: London and New York; 2019) has been published. A number of well-known experts, including Prof. J. Mohan Malik, Prof. John Garver, Prof. Niklas Swarnstrom, Dr. Xu Jian and Dr. Fang Tien-Sze have contributed to the volume.

Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Sanjaya Baru’s article on G-20 Meet, titled ‘Two and twenty at Osaka’ has been published by The Indian Express on June 28, 2019.

G-20 meets in the midst of a crisis in world trade. It must not let US-China bilateral overshadow the summit, writes Dr Baru.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article titled 'India's 'multipolar Asia' approach and China' has been published in East Asia Forum Quarterly (Vol.11, No.2, April-June 2019), a special volume on ‘China realities’.

Dr. Panda essentially argues that 'an alignment with China is an important feature of India's 'multipolar Asia' conception as it will both protect and enhance India’s rise without contesting China’s rise'.

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Research Associate under the Pakistan News Digest Project, IDSA, Dr. Zainab Akhter’s article on Pakistan, titled ‘Pakistan Cracking Down on Voices of Dissent’ has been published by All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an external services division of AIR, on June 20, 2019.

Director General, IDSA, Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy’s article on India-US Defence ties, titled ‘India-US Defence: Managing Trump and Triumf’ has been published in ‘The Economic Times’ on June 20, 2019.

Given India’s evolving defence procurement system, efforts should be made to enhance compatibility of technology from various sources. This may require greater cooperation with the US, since many of India’s supplies other than Russia depend on US technologies for their products, writes Amb. Chinoy.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Laxman Behera’s article on defence allocation in the new budget, titled, ‘Economic Situation to Weigh Heavily on Resource Allocation Decisions’ has been published by NDTV Profit on June 18, 2019.

The difficult situations that the economy is presently going through will weigh heavily on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s resource allocation decisions, writes Dr Behera.

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Research Analyst, Ms Gulbin Sultana’s commentary on PM Modi's visit to Maldives and Sri Lanka on June 8-9, 2019, titled ‘India Reiterates ‘Neighbourhood First’ And ‘Sagar’policies’, has been published by the External Services Division of All India Radio on June 10, 2019.

The visits to the two maritime neighbours reflect India’s foremost priority to the ‘neighbourhood first’ policy and the ‘security and growth for all in the region’ (SAGAR) doctrine, writes Ms Sultana.

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Ms Ruchita Beri’s article, titled ‘India-Africa Trade’ has been published in a Special Report on Africa Day 2019.

Africa is no longer considered a ‘hopeless continent’ as suggested by the Economist a decade ago, rather it possesses all the prerequisites to become a major growth pole of the world, writes Ms Beri.

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