International Relations

Brazil, India, and South Africa’s naval cooperation symbolise the three democracies’ and booming economies’ strong long-term strategic collaboration. Exercise IBSAMAR, which debuted in 2008, is the most prominent example of this alliance of democratic values, commercial interests, and maritime cooperation.  Further, we will discuss Naval cooperation between Brazil, India, and South Africa and much more […]

Hong Kong: China’s Hub of Political Unrest Hong Kong has been experiencing a repeated wave of clashes with the administration lately, more so since June 2019. Though the controversial law, which stirred a massive protest against the Chinese government was withdrawn by September, the protests spread wider, as the demands covered aspects such as enquiries

3 agreements and 4 supplementary treaties make up the convention of Geneva, which establish ethical principles for wartime conduct. The Geneva Convention was established in 1864, although it was completely rewritten in 1949. The convention of Geneva, as well as their subsequent amendments, are an entity of General International Law, furthermore recognized as Humanitarian Law

The generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a special tax system on export and import trades instituted to promote and help the growth of developing countries. It was established on January 1, 1976, by the Trade Act of 1974. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the main host organization for the establishment

This is a worldwide technological stakeholder initiative, and it is also the first worldwide initiative that creates collaboration of different organisations across the world from America, South Korea, Australia, European Union, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Slovenia, Singapore, and Germany as one of the founding members. This initiative is to research technological advances and

In broader terms, digital trade includes the exchange of goods and services that are enabled or delivered electronically, ranging from the distribution of films and television to the provision of professional services. Recently, the group of seven known as G7 agreed on a joint set of principles to govern cross-border data use and digital trade.

There are 47 G33 members. 21 member countries out of the 47, including India, participated in the Virtual Informal Ministerial Meeting.  The delegation of India is headed by Piyush Goyal, the Minister of Commerce and Industry. He emphasised the importance of the positive outcomes in providing permanent solutions to the problem of Public Stockholding for

Sri Lanka is India’s maritime neighbour. Both countries have traditionally been friends. The India-Sri Lanka relations have strengthened with the signing of the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement in March 2000. The new proposed diplomatic arrangement of the Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ECTA) aims to foster a proto freedom-of-movement system and single market. Political

The QUAD developed with the aim of supporting the “prosperous, open and free Indo Pacific region” and it was first given by Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan in the year 2007. In 2017, Australia, Japan, India and the United States together formed this “quadrilateral union”. They aim to protect the terror attacks and

Foreign Policy Background External relations refer to a country’s interactions with other countries throughout the world. These external contacts are founded on a set of principles and policies, collectively referred to as foreign policy. As a result, foreign policy can be defined as a state’s whole set of actions in dealing with its external environment,