Bejoy Sebastian

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Bejoy Sebastian writes on the contemporary geopolitics and regionalism in eastern Asia and the Indo-Pacific. His articles and commentaries have appeared in Delhi Post (India), The Kochi Post (India), The Diplomat (United States), and The Financial Express (India). Some of his articles were re-published by The Asian Age (Bangladesh), The Cambodia Daily, the BRICS Information Portal, and the Peace Economy Project (United States). He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, where he acquired a post-graduate diploma in English journalism. He has qualified the Indian University Grants Commission's National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for teaching International Relations in Indian higher educational institutions in 2022. He holds a Master's degree in Politics and International Relations with first rank from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala, India. He was attached to the headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs (Government of India) in New Delhi as a research intern in 2021 and has also worked as a Teaching Assistant at FLAME University in Pune, India, for a brief while.

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Islamabad Talks: Untangling the Washington-Tehran impasse

After six weeks of tit-for-tat strikes by Iran on the one side, and the United States, Israel and Arab sheikhdoms on the other, the...

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The current phase of thaw in India-China relations can be traced back to 23 October 2024, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi...

The potential fallout of U.S. strikes on Iran

After days of mixed signaling, in a dramatic escalation, the U.S. military has hit three key nuclear facilities of Iran at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan...

Strategic insecurities that persist beyond the LAC

“Mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual sensitivity should remain the basis of our relations”. That’s what Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India reminded his...

Back to normal: Signs of a Sino-Indian rapprochement

On the eve of the first summit of an “expanded” BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping in the Russian city of Kazan,...

The Quad way of standing the test of time

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What lies ahead for a complete normalisation of India-China ties?

A section of Indian media has been unwarrantedly citing a statement by a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, during a media...

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