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The Spanish Exception: Amnesty, Ceuta, and the Politics of a Diverging Europe

As per a decree passed by the Spanish cabinet, legal residency has been granted to nearly 500,000 undocumented migrants through temporary residence permits...

Sixth-Generation Skies: Risks and Rewards in the FCAS Talks 

FCAS represents a system of systems including a sixth-generation manned fighter, remote carriers, drones, sensors, and a combat cloud. Therefore, its importance exceeds that of a single aircraft...

The Strategic Power of Clean Energy: India Beyond 300 GW

The significance of 300 GW is more than a number. Clean energy is gaining increasing importance for India in terms of strategic autonomy, energy security, and geopolitical power...

India’s Fighter Jet Engine Push: The Reliance–Rolls-Royce Bet

Reliance Industries Limited and Rolls-Royce have announced that both companies would come together to design, develop, manufacture and deliver an engine for India's Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft...

Weapons as Statecraft: India’s Defence Export Diplomacy in the Global South

Defence exports can complement India's broader engagement with developing countries through capacity building, training, development partnerships, and technology cooperation. Countries looking to...

Putin’s Kuril Islands Visit and the Return of Russia-Japan Tensions

Putin's visit has once again brought the old Japanese-Russian territorial differences to the centre stage, and this has further raised questions...

Too Many Fronts: Is the UAE’s Balancing Act Finally Cracking?

The UAE is increasingly finding itself on the opposite side of several regional disputes from Saudi Arabia, particularly over Yemen, Sudan, oil policy, Iran, and the future balance of power in the...

Why the Weakest Reading of the Mecca Pact Is the Most Dangerous One

The agreement is an opportunity to redouble India's efforts rather than walk away from the Gulf...

Parliament Security and the Limits of Satyagraha: Lessons from the Recent Protest March

India’s democratic strength lies in its ability to protect both the constitutional right to peaceful dissent and the sanctity of its national institutions. Neither objective should ever be achieved at...