Power and Priorities: Global Military Expenditure and Geopolitical Shifts, 2010–2024
Divyanka Tandon Defence budgets are not merely fiscal submissions; rather, they are strategic signals that depict security challenges faced by…
The Unravelling of CPEC: China’s Strategic Recalibration in Pakistan
Dr Nanda Kishor China’s partial disengagement creates breathing room, but it does not remove the strategic logic of Sino-Pakistani cooperation.
From Periphery to Pivot: How India is Recasting Global Order in the 21st Century
Balaji Subramanian India has emerged as a pivotal actor in the Global South, leveraging its human capital, services sector, and…
Project Sudarshan – Indigenous Innovation Strengthening India’s Defence
Samarth Tripathi India unveiled “Mission Sudarshan Chakra” on August 15, 2025, as a multi-layered nationwide air and missile defence system…
How India’s Oil Refining Power Balanced Global Inflation and Geopolitics
From a minimal capacity in the 1990s, India became the world’s third-largest refiner with 254 MTPA by 2023,…
Structural, Strategic, Future-Oriented: PM Modi’s Japan Visit Redefines Bilateral Ties
Tejashree P V Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Japan has reaffirmed that India–Japan relations are no longer symbolic; they are structural,…
Equal or Nothing: Why America Must Respect India’s Rise
What Washington often fails to understand is that India is not merely a rising economy or a military…
SCO Summit in Tianjin: Multipolarity in Motion
Raghvendra Tripathi The 2025 SCO Summit in Tianjin, China, is especially notable given the current rise in global tensions. It…
Tianjin Calculus: PM Modi’s Balancing Act Between Xi, Trump, and Strategic Autonomy
Pritam Sarbabidya Geopolitics is about shades of grey, where a nation’s strategic autonomy is not the absence of relationships but…
The Dragon and the Elephant Tango – India–China Strategic Alignment in the Shadow of Trump’s Tariff Hegemony
Sindhuri Sai Trump’s tariff war, intended to isolate China and pressure India, instead pushed the two Asian rivals into a…