24/06/2020
India's new citizenship law is an outcome of Hindutva Constitutionalism that legitimizes the notion of Hindu victimhood. While the opposition to the law has been vocal, it has remained fragmented.
India and South Asia
Françoise NICOLAS
Senior Research Fellow and Director of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies
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Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
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16/12/2019
India’s Space Program - International Competition and Evolution Asie.Visions, No. 111, December 2019
India’s space program has grown and evolved significantly in the last five decades. The program originally focused on developing space assets that provided direct developmental benefits, for example telecommunications and remote sensing satellites that helped both in improving communication...
17/09/2019
The new European Union (EU) strategy on India marks a major moment of departure in EU-India relations.
13/09/2019
Only devised a few years ago, the concept of the Indo-Pacific seeks to express a new configuration of the world’s globalization. In terms of economic exchange and power distribution, the Indo-Pacific is a unitary region spanning from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific, where all the major powers...
19/12/2018
In recent years, experts and onlookers have noted a convergence of geopolitical interests between the United States and India.
12/12/2018
Strategic competition between India and China in the Indian Ocean is growing and has the potential to profoundly impact the stability and security of the region. The Indian Ocean is becoming the scene of a sustained contest that in some ways resembles strategic competition during the Cold War....
26/11/2018
The Trump Administration’s Indo-Pacific security strategy is a case study in foreign policymaking under a non-unitary executive.
08/11/2018
The Asia–Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) — a Japan–India initiative to promote connectivity between Asia and East Africa and encourage joint projects in Africa — is often misrepresented. All too often, the AAGC is depicted as a political move aimed exclusively at countering China’s Belt and Road...
04/10/2018
In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India rendered its verdict in a landmark case with major implications for the Aadhaar biometric identification project as well as the application of right to privacy in India, but the Aadhaar Matter raises important questions about the shortcomings of...
17/09/2018
In the last decade, the strengthening of the India-Japan strategic partnership has been primarily driven by geopolitical considerations, in an era of competing regional visions and influence.
Economy - Asia - India and South Asia - Japan
03
Dec
2018
from 10:00 to 15:30
- Ifri Conferences
Power Competition and Regional Stability in Asia
Annual Conference of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies
13
Nov
2018
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Between Giants: The Sino-Indian contest for influence in the Indian Ocean Seminar
China and India are emerging as major maritime powers as part of long-term shifts in the regional balance of power.
25
Sep
2018
from 09:00 to 11:30
- Ifri Conferences
Approaching the Indo-Pacific: American, French, Indian and Japanese Visions
The Indo-Pacific has become a buzzword since 2017, as it came to be used by all major players in the region stretching from East Africa to the Pacific.
Asia - Southeast Asia - China - India and South Asia - Japan
24
Jan
2018
from 09:30 to 12:00
- Ifri Conferences
Democracy in Asia: Models, Experiences and Challenges
Assessing the state of democracy in Asia is a challenge. While some countries, such as Japan and India, have been showing the way from early days, some others, such as in Southeast Asia are still struggling to ensure stable and sustainable democratic institutions and practices.
Asia - Southeast Asia - China - India and South Asia - Japan
12
Dec
2017
from 09:30 to 17:30
- Ifri Conferences
Competing Worldviews and the Changing Order in Asia
As the regional balance of power in Asia continues to evolve and tensions in a number of hot spots - from the Korean Peninsula to the East and South China Seas and the Taiwan Strait - either simmer or intensify, the future of regional stability is increasingly uncertain. Within this context,...
18
Sep
2017
from 09:30 to 17:30
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
China’s Belt and Road – Towards Globalization with Chinese Characteristics? Ifri-OCP Policy Center Roundtables
In 2013, Chinese president Xi Jinping first unveiled his broad vision to develop regional connectivity and infrastructure across Eurasia that would later be officially named the Belt and Road Initiative (or yi dai yi lu, One Belt, One Road, or OBOR).
23
Mar
2017
from 12:30 to 14:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
India-Pakistan Relations under the Modi Government
Midway through his term since elected to office in May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pakistan policy has undergone dramatic shifts. From initial enthusiasm to making an impromptu visit to Lahore in December 2015, and then carrying out ‘surgical strikes’ against Pakistan-based...
12
Sep
2014
from 09:00 to 18:00
- Ifri Conferences
The Asian Century: What International Norms and Practices? Conference held by the Ifri Center for Asian Studies
Disputed interpretations of the Law of the Sea
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20
May
2014
from 09:15 to 16:30
- Ifri Conferences
WHITHER PAKISTAN? NEW PROSPECTS, NEW PERSPECTIVES
This one-day conférence will discuss various dimensions of Pakistan's domestic and international politics. In particular, the role of Pakistan in its regional environment, the evolution of its economic situation and trade policy, the energy situation in Pakistan will be tackled.
05
Apr
2013
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Inde/ASEAN : des rapprochements pour quelles ambitions ?
Alors que les liens ont tendance à se resserrer entre l"Inde et les pays de l"ASEAN, non seulement dans le domaine économique mais aussi en matière de défense, les conditions d"un dialogue politique ne semblent pas encore réunies. La mise en place d‘un véritable partenariat entre les deux...
19/03/2019
An interview with Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, by Jean-Dominique Merchet, Defense and Diplomatic Correspondent, L'Opinion.
27/01/2018
If India has long been perceived, and rightly so, as a reluctant player in international affairs, but that perception is quickly coming to an end. Indeed, by organizing a major international forum, the Raisina Dialogue, for the third year in a row, Delhi is signaling that it is now seeking to...
21/05/2015
GVC Naidu is a Professor of International Relations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.