Cloud Power and Commercial Diplomacy: How India Is Rewriting the Global Digital Order
Rishit Anand The Union Budget 2026–27 proposal of a tax holiday till 2047 for global cloud giants using Indian data…
From Strategy to Sovereignty: Artificial Intelligence and the Race for Youth-Led Transformation in Central Asia
Dr Lakshmi Karlekar The absence of high-quality local language datasets needed to train Large Language Models (LLMs) could pose challenges to…
The Genesis Mission: America’s Modern “Manhattan Project for AI”
SamvadaWorld Staff At the centre of the Genesis Mission is the American Science and Security Platform, an integrated AI-driven research…
The Webs That Bind Us: Harari’s Nexus and the Power of Information Networks
Raghvendra Tripathi Despite its speculative tone, Nexus succeeds in revealing how the same dynamics that once governed religious texts and…
Balancing Sovereignty and Reciprocity: China’s 2025 Legal Strategy in Global Trade and Security
Dr Lakshmi Karlekar & Tanishaa Pandey By specifically mentioning the necessity of protecting bilateral relations from 'geopolitical turbulence,' Xi's appeal for 'unswerving' collaboration was…
Artificial Intelligence and Human Security: Between Promise and Peril
John Guite While policymakers and researchers continue to debate solutions, the transformative force likely to address many of these human…
Geopolitical Risk Indexing for India’s National Security: A Policy Integration Framework
Divyanka Tandon This issue brief presents a pioneering framework for integrating Geopolitical Risk Indexing (GPR) into India’s national security architecture.…
AI’s New Empire: Unpacking OpenAI’s Quest for Global Dominance
Framed through a historical lens of imperial ambition, ‘Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI’…
India’s Tech Imperative: Scaling R&D for a Strategic Future
Balaji Subramanian India must now have institutions like DARPA lead our national strategic tech in quantum secure communication, AI for…
India’s AI Moment: Aligning Ambition with Strategy and Governance
AI is too important to be left to bureaucrats and tech boards—it must be democratised—strategically, socially, and politically.