THE SUNDAY GUARDIAN

Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Air Power Studies, argues in her article that India’s immediate focus should be on nudging inter-state relations into a working relationship to facilitate cooperative action. Read more.

“New year starts for India by joining the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as an elected non-permanent member for two years. This is the eighth time that India will be part of this forum constituted to maintain international peace and security. The last time India occupied this high chair was a decade ago. The global political environment then was quite different from now. Today, trust levels amongst major powers are low, nationalistic hedging is high, and global security appears out of focus.”

Image: UN Security Council.