Regional Dialogue

Despite external disruptions or bilateral challenges among members, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue sustains its commitment, setting a precedent for uninterrupted collaboration that ensures continuity and reliability in regional engagements.

The country was effective in insulating the forum from geopolitical turbulence, making it more representative, placing the spotlight on the Global South and crafting a comprehensive blueprint of global solutions.

Adopted largely by the West, FFP advocacy needs to address Global South dilemmas, contradictions, and tensions for adoption in non-West geographies.

As India finds itself at the centre of global conversations on the most pressing challenges of our time, it must also develop a progressive voice on local, regional and global gender issues by engaging with the FFP agenda.

This article provides an overview of how Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine is being viewed and assessed in various regions and countries in Asia, and how the governments there are positioning themselves and reacting: in the Southeast Asian ASEAN countries, in Northeast Asia, and in India, China, and Myanmar.

New Delhi's indirect support to the Russian position is not a product of Russian pressure. Neither is it about its genuine belief about Russia’s legitimate interests in Ukraine. Rather, it is the result of a desire to safeguard its own interests, strategic vulnerability and 'non-alignment'- a cultural foreign policy ethos that prevails in Indian thinking.

Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific is defined today largely by an escalating polarisation between the China-Russia camp and the US-led Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) and AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom, United States). The war in Ukraine is a temporary diversion; interstate tensions in maritime Asia are here to stay and may increase. The European Union (EU) attempts to chart a ‘third way’ that strengthens the hand of the region’s democracies – but without seeking a confrontation with China. Germany has a pivotal role in shaping and implementing this inclusive approach and ensuring that it delivers satisfactory results.