Tag: Middle East

This report examines the evolution of India-Middle East relations from 2014 to 2025, highlighting how these ties have transformed through distinct phases: establishing independent bilateral relationships (by 2014), strengthening these connections (by 2019), creating new regional cooperative frameworks based on mutual trust (by 2024), and safeguarding these gains amid renewed regional conflict.

The conference, co-hosted with India’s World Magazine, explored India–Middle East relations through the expert panels. It featured the launch of a CSDR policy report and a special magazine edition, fostering strategic dialogue on India’s westward engagement—past, present, and future.

The roundtable analyzed the shifting geopolitics of the Israel-Palestine conflict, regional power responses, and the implications of prolonged war. Drawing on Dr. Stanly Johny’s book, it explored peace prospects in the Middle East, global consequences of the conflict, and India’s evolving stance over 17 months of continued hostilities.

Israel’s disproportionate response and failure of global powers and institutions to enforce a ceasefire have plunged the world into a crisis.

With a neighbourhood in turmoil, an aggressive China, and pressure of Russia-Ukraine war, the last thing Delhi would like to have is conflict in the Middle East.