Security Without Illusions: America’s Interest-Based Turn and India’s Strategic Calculus
SamvadaWorld Staff The United States’ National Security Strategy (NSS), released in November 2025, represents a decisive shift toward a sharply…
From Tiananmen to Growth: How Economic Performance Rebuilt the CCP’s Legitimacy
Mohmmad Rizwan The social contract established post-Tiananmen massacre indicates that the current Communist regime cannot derive its legitimacy solely from…
From Imports to Indigenous Power: A Data-Driven Analysis of India’s Defence Procurement and Modernisation (1990–2025)
Divyanka Tandon In the last 35 years, the Indian defence sector has experienced a spectacular metamorphosis, moving from a military…
Navigating the Communication Tapestry: How Communication Shapes Order in a Fragmented World
Amit Dasgupta & Uma Sudhindra Communication narrative enforces strategic imperatives, including, if required, by resorting to imaginative, exaggerated and alarmist falsehoods.
India’s Constrained Autonomy: Economic Dependencies and Foreign Policy — A Data-Driven Analysis
The data from 2014 to 2025 presents a paradox whereby, despite significantly expanding the GDP, with a near…
Reconstituting Political Ethics: A Decolonial Reading of PM Modi’s Duty-Centric Governance Paradigm
Dr Nanda Kishor The shift from Rajpath to Kartavya Path represents a decisive symbolic break from colonial glorifications of power, restoring…
Foreign Influence Unmasked: How X’s New Location Tool Is Exposing Anti-India Forces
Diksha Bharti This week, Elon Musk-owned X rolled out a transparency feature called “About This Account” that shows the country…
The Chokepoint Economy: How the US and China Use Supply Chain Dominance as a Geopolitical Weapon
Hridbina Chatterjee The US and China are using their leverage over critical inputs, manufacturing choke points, and market access to…
Beyond the Dollar: Currency Wars and the Geopolitical Revolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Pranav S CBDCs are more than just digital rupees or dollars; they are programmable money, sovereign code, and a combination…
A Fragmented Energy Future: U.S. Sanctions and the Reordering of Oil Geopolitics
Tejashree P V In combining stricter bans on Russian oil at a moment when global supply was coming into balance, the…