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How the father of Indian Economic reforms set the bedrock for Indian Cyber Diplomacy?
By Sanjana Rathi In the 1990s, India undertook fundamental reforms – structural, diplomatic, economic, and even technological, that set up the bedrock for Indian “Cyber Diplomacy.” The Information Technology revolution in India had begun, followed by the simultaneous development of the economy towards liberalization, globalization, and privatization. These economic reforms carved a way for corporate actors to play a salient role in Internet Policymaking. These structural changes were significant under the then Prime Minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao, also known as the father of Indian Economic reform. He was a true visionary and strategist who laid the bedrock for Indian Cyber Diplomacy. Before delving into how PM Rao laid…
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Role of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in shaping Cyber-norms
Cyberspace is presenting not only new challenges for states but also new opportunities for power projection. Thus, analyzing how non-Western perspectives have developed around this subject becomes relevant to understand some dynamics of contemporary international relations in cyberspace. In this way, to know how “the East” has been behaving in this area, the present article will briefly confuse a small part, an Eastern regional strategic thinking to cybersecurity, materialized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an international organization of eight member countries, namely – India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It was established in 2001 for political, military, and economic…
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The Imperative For Indigenous Technologies
By Pavithran Rajan In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitation of life. He believed that the idea is the ultimate reality. Art imitates idea and so it is an imitation of reality. Aristotle, on the other hand, advocat- ed art as it is mimetic. According to him, art is an imitation of action and the artist’s tool of enquiry is neither philosophical nor moral. Philosophy apart, mimesis is widely prevalent as a survival tactic and the homo sapien has used it in his long evolution. All militaries recognise its importance and cam- ouflage and concealment are necessary tools for deception, central to all…
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China’s Cyberdiplomacy: Cyberthreat looming the automotive manufacturing sector.
By Sanjana Rathi On the 11th of October 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited India for the 2nd informal summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While the Indian Prime Minister flew to the summit, Chinese President arrived in Hongqi — a Chinese luxury car. Although the summit was to hold comprehensive talks on issues of military concern on land & sea, the silence about cyberattacks by China, and India’s lenient stance over the matter, had much noise from cybersecurity experts. The arrival of the President on a Chinese luxury car was also viewed as ‘diplomacy for cyber-sovereignty’ and ‘safeguard against surveillance’. In this article, I present an analysis of the emergence of…
