January 13, 2020

Emerging Political Dynamics in Asia-Pacific

Gazi Hassan and Mona Thakkar Major Players and Geopolitics The Asia-Pacific region is at the centre of global geopolitics with major powers competing for influence and control. Chinese assertiveness and expansionism is growing in the region, particularly in South China […]
November 22, 2018

India now ‘Pacific-minded’

Abstract The narrative of Indo-Pacific has been attracting vital attention in the global affairs, and India, formerly reluctant to respond, is now showing greater enthusiasm to embrace it. Though the narrative, in its indirect way, is poising itself against the […]
October 29, 2018

An interaction with Dr. W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar| Power transition in Asia-Pacific

Dr. W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, Associate Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at Madras Christian College, Chennai shares his outlook on Great Power Transitions, Power Shifts in the Asia-Pacific: India’s Foreign and Security Policy, Position and Posture. Watch the […]
September 22, 2015

Japan: A Pacifist Embrace of  Militarism- Or was it the other way round?

Collective Security dictum of “all for one and one for all” rationale for global peacekeeping missions will now be applicable to Japan. The significant changes in the pacifist constitution of Japan to make its defence forces more upbeat recently witnessed […]
March 26, 2015

Conference Report on US Rebalance and Asia Pacific Region

The two-day International Conference on “U.S Rebalance and Asia Pacific Region”, conceptualized and organised by the Centre for Strategic Studies, Centre Public Policy Research, Kochi with the support of the US Consulate-General Chennai Region helped in generating ideas and thoughts […]
March 16, 2015

India is the only country in the Asian region capable of standing against China: MK Narayanan

  Mr. MK Narayanan, Former NSA and Former Governor delivered the Inaugural Address during the International Conference on ‘US Rebalance and the Asia Pacific’ in March 2015. Watch his inaugural address above:  
March 10, 2015

Press Coverage: International Conference on ‘US Rebalance and Asia Pacific’

The two day Conference on ‘US Rebalance and Asia Pacific’ was organised in a crucial time given the significant developments brought by President Obama’s visit to India recently. The Conference was inaugurated by former NSA Mr. MK Narayanan and witnessed […]
March 3, 2015

Why US is Rebalancing its Strategy in Asia Pacific?  

 “The Mediterranean is the ocean of the past, the Atlantic the ocean of the present, and the Pacific is the ocean of the future.”                                 […]
February 23, 2015

International Conference on ‘US Rebalance and Asia Pacific Region’

International Conference on US Rebalance and Asia Pacific Region    (March 6th and 7th, 2014) Organised by CPPR – Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) Supported by the US Consulate General in Chennai at Riviera Suites, Kochi, Kerala, India – 682013 […]