Capacity Building as Statecraft: Understanding the Strategic Significance of ITEC
Archita Gaur Established in 1964 as part of India's broader technical cooperation framework, ITEC was conceptualised as a tool of…
Beyond Western Europe: What Modi’s Slovakia Visit Reveals About India’s European Strategy
India's elevation of its relations with Slovakia to a Comprehensive Partnership level and bilateral discussions on defence cooperation,…
From Civilizational Ties to Strategic Partnership: The Evolution of India–Nepal Relations
Nepal holds a key place in India’s strategic and geopolitical calculations, lying between India and China.
Weaponising History: Why China Keeps Invoking Japanese Militarism
Why does China continue to invoke Japanese militarism in contemporary security debates?
From Hormuz to Taiwan: The Shift from Energy Security to Compute Security
Today, fabs in Taiwan and advanced compute supply chains have attained the strategic value once occupied by oil-producing…
The Return of Middle Powers in the Geoeconomic Order
The role of these nations shows that the nature of geopolitics in the global world has changed dramatically…
From Oil to Minerals: How Supply Chains Became Instruments of Geopolitical Power
The new frontier of resource power is not in the oil field but in the mine shafts.
Strategic Silence: How India is Redefining Power in the Indo-Pacific
India's approach can be described by the use of the term “strategic silence”, which is a stance of…
Why External Powers Constantly Misread Fragile States
In all manner of situations, over any timeline, external powers have struggled to even know the political, social,…
China in Afghanistan: Pragmatism, Power, and the Limits of Strategy
The authors highlight the convergence of security (notably Xinjiang-related) and economic concerns, characterising Beijing’s response as cautious pragmatism.