Debt, Dollar and Dependency: How Financial Architecture Keeps the Global South in Check
Daljeet Singh Ultimately, the story of debt, the dollar, and dependency is not solely about finance; it is about power,…
Iran’s Grand Strategy: From Revolutionary Isolation to Fragmented Warfare
Dhruv Ashok Through its ‘forward Defence doctrine’, Iran has supported regional proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and militias in…
Fault Lines of the Frontier: Tribal Loyalties and the New Pakistan–Afghanistan Tensions
Archita Gaur The Durand Line has neither been formally recognised by successive Afghan governments nor accepted as a legitimate international…
AI Warfare and the Fragility of the Geneva Order
Balaji Subramanian AI has proved to be a technological transformation and now threatens the moral architecture that sustained those rules.
Mindfulness at the Frontier: India, Bhutan, and the Reimagining of the Himalayan Border
Hridbina Chatterjee The Gelephu Gambit indicates a movement away from the conventional donor–recipient model of development towards more cooperative and…
When Foreign Policy Comes Home: Why India Needs Domestic Public Diplomacy
Parag Gilada India must move beyond a reactive public relations approach and adopt a more proactive model of domestic public…
Hungary’s Defiance and the Fracturing of Europe’s Ukraine Consensus
Aayush Pal Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has been openly critical of the European Union’s financial and military support for Kyiv,…
The Structural Grammar of Revolt: Mapping the Logic of Global Protest
Divyanka Tandon ACLED event counts, World Bank Gini scores, governance ratings, and MIDI mobilisation indices reveal a combination of factors…
Hexagon Alliance: India’s Strategic Pivot in a Multipolar World
The proposed hexagon, linking Israel, India, Greece, Cyprus, and selected Arab, African, and possibly Asian partners, is a…
Energy, Deterrence, and Escalation: The Economic Fallout of the Iran Conflict
Anjali Singh A worldwide economic shock akin to past energy crises could occur if the conflict spreads or threatens the…