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The Bay of Bengal Is Becoming the India-Pacific’s Energy Frontier 

The Bay of Bengal is emerging as more than just a strategic waterway. It is becoming an important space where energy security, maritime connectivity and geopolitical rivalry intersect...

From Recipients to Providers: Is the Global South Emerging as a Provider of Global Public Goods?

The emerging world is no longer just consuming public goods; it is increasingly producing and sharing them...

AI as a Geopolitical Weapon: The New Arms Race Beyond Nuclear Deterrence

Artificial intelligence inverts that logic entirely. It is usable, scalable, exportable, and improvable on a weekly release cycle — and unlike fissile material, it cannot be tracked by satellites or...

The India–Japan Partnership: A Window into India’s New Economic Security Doctrine

The India-Japan relationship is becoming more symbolic of a larger shift in New Delhi's foreign policy calculus, one where economic resilience, technological competitiveness and secure access to...

Soft Power on the Fast Track-  The Unsung Victory of Sports Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

The presentation of the Australia-India Sports Roadmap is a quantum leap in statecraft beyond a conventional maritime security and commerce agreement...

From Textiles to Tech: India–UK CETA 

The India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a free trade agreement (FTA), is not just economically motivated but also politically calculated under the framework of international...

Bridges to Nowhere? The Price of Navigating Nepal’s Twin Hegemons

For Nepal, the classical image of a "yam between two boulders" has undergone a profound 21st-century transformation. ...

Multi-Alignment as India’s Foreign Policy Strategy in the Indo-Pacific

India's foreign policy of multi-alignment permits the state to engage in pragmatic interactions with various poles of power while maintaining strategic autonomy...

Ports, Pipelines and Power: China’s Expanding Footprint in the Indian Ocean 

For the last two decades, Beijing has been systematically expanding its footprint in the Indian Ocean through a network of ports, infrastructure projects, logistics facilities, energy corridors and...