Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Md Muddassir Quamar’s article on India-Saudi Arabia relations, titled ‘India and Saudi Arabia: A Growing Security and Defence Partnership’ was published by Diplomacy & Beyond, a journal of Foreign Policy and National Affairs, on February 19 2019.
India has historically shared friendly relations with the Arab world. Trade and people-to-people contacts have persevered between the Indian Subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula since time immemorial. This has resulted in strong cultural affinity between the two geographies set apart only by the Arabian Sea, reads the article.