Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article on Japan’s Blue Dot Network (BDN), titled ‘Shinzo Abe's Infrastructure Diplomacy’ has been published in Asia Times on July 31, 2020.
The article analyses how the BDN could emerge as one foreign-policy instrument that Japan can apply to strengthen diplomatic, economic and security partnerships. Consequently, the BDN can help Japan emerge as a leading regional and global power in the post-Covid-19 world order.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article ‘India in Japan's Changing South China Sea Outlook’ has been published by Japan Forward on July 29, 2020.
The article argues that a deeper SCS-centered cooperation between the Indian and Japanese navies can provide immense balance to the Indo-Pacific region, with Japan’s infrastructure building and India’s personnel building capacity being leveraged into a regional strong maritime force.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's research article on India’s prospective inclusion in the BDN, titled ‘India, the Blue-Dot-Network and the "Quad Plus" Calculus’ has been published in the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (Fall, 2020) at the Air University, USA.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article on India-Australia relations, titled ‘Australia needs to take India more seriously as strategic environment worsens’ has been published by ‘The Strategist’ on July 21, 2020.
The piece argues that stronger defence cooperation could emerge out of stronger economic ties. The time has come for Australia to factor India much more seriously into its defence planning and to foster a stronger, market-oriented defence partnership.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article titled ‘The Abe doctrine on Quad Plus’ has been published by The Japan Times on July 17, 2020.
The article argues that Japan's search for security will continue to draw its analogy from Abe's decade-old Quad doctrine even after he leaves office in 2021. How the post-Abe leadership translates the framework of ‘democratic diamond’ to a cohesive security platform that Japan has been searching for under its Quad to Quad plus process remains to be seen.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article titled, 'India in Japan's Post-Covid Defence Posture' has been published by 'The Asia Times' on July 16, 2020.
The article notes that while mention of India is minimal in Japan's 2020 Defense White Paper, it is considerable in substance.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's piece titled ‘Modi’s ‘self-reliant India’ has key foreign policy aspects’, has been published by Asia Times on July 13, 2020.
The piece essentially argues that in the near future, India’s international outlook for economic engagement might transcend from multi-alignment to pointed-alignment with a set of countries that are critical to India’s economic and strategic interests in promoting an alternative supply-chain network, allowing it to move away from China.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article titled ‘Australia in Malabar would strengthen the Indo-Pacific Narrative’ has been published by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the CSIS, Washington DC.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's Op-Ed titled, ‘Japan's aim for first-strike capability’ has been published in Asia Times on June 30, 2020.
The piece essentially argues that Japan's aim for first-strike capability implies that East Asia’s arms race is moving to a new direction now, and Tokyo is in no mood to lose this race.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article on India’s China policy titled, ‘India’s China policy signals a shift post-Galwan’ has been published in India Inc on June 29, 2020.
India-China ties will undergo rapid transformation with the narrative of China as a partner taking a backseat in India’s official parlance in the post-Galwan period, writes Dr. Panda.
