Archita Gaur 
Hridbina Chatterjee 
Ananda Mathews 
Shivendra Shukla 
Abhishek Kumar Singh 
Balaji Subramanian 
Anusreeta Dutta 
John T Guite and Vinay N Bhushan 
Pranav S 
Parag Gilada Wellington’s Wager: Why New Zealand Chose India in an Age of Uncertainty
Aayush Pal In a landmark bilateral development, India and New Zealand have agreed on a Free Trade Agreement allowing 100…
QUAD: A Concert Without Conductors
The Indo-Pacific accounts for nearly two-thirds of global GDP, roughly 60 per cent of global maritime trade, and…
Middle Powers Reshaping Global Order: UAE, Turkey, Indonesia, and India
Countries like the UAE, Turkey, and Indonesia are no longer just “ in the middle”; rather, they are…
The Silicon Siege: How the West Asian Crisis Rebuilt the Military-Industrial Complex
With the inclusion of venture-backed tech giants, or the "Silicon Insurgents", the triangle has changed into a diamond.…
The Fragile Backbone: India’s Oil Dependence and the Anatomy of Energy Vulnerability
Divyanka Tandon In this new Sharp Scope data analyst Divyanka Tandon analysis examines how rising import dependence, growing exposure to…
Zero- Sum Security: How Washington’s Gulf Pivot Could Leave Ukraine Defenseless
The U.S. Department of Defense reportedly diverted nearly $750 million from the Prioritised Ukraine Requirement List (PURL) to…
Zombie Multilateralism: Why the United Nations Must Change or Fade Away
The UN’s inability to address the prevalent issues shows that it is no longer a "universal" body but…
India’s Economic Statecraft in the Maldives: Strategy, Stability and Influence
Anjali Singh Under the SAARC Currency Swap Framework, India approved the first ₹30 billion withdrawal for the Maldives, indicating ongoing…
Mauritius Sets July Ultimatum as Chagos Agreement Remains Stalled
Mauritius has set an end-of-July 2026 deadline for the United Kingdom to finalise a long-stalled agreement on the…
The Unipolar Dusk: Middle Powers and the Grammar of a New World Order
After World War II, a new geopolitical architecture emerged in the form of the United Nations, a global…