India and the Taliban: From Reluctant Engagement to Strategic Assertion
Garima Sharma Afghan Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi is on a five-day visit to India. Before arriving, he participated…
Track II Diplomacy in Crisis: How the Asia Cup 2025 Exposed the Fragility of India-Pakistan Cricket Ties
Kabindra Sharma & Dr. Rippy Das Cricket has always been more than just a game between India and Pakistan; it carries the weight of…
Pasni Port Proposal: A New Frontline in U.S.–China–India Strategic Rivalry
Aayush Pal By inviting competing powers into its territory, Pakistan risks becoming a geopolitical battleground rather than reaping long-term national…
The Road to Industrial Power: How Strategic States Defied Markets to Build Wealth
Parag Gilada An Industrial Policy that lacks an export focus is a formula of stagnation. The East Asian success stories…
Zapad-2025: Multi-Domain Manoeuvres and India’s Assertion of Strategic Autonomy
Piyush Anand The exercise blends battlefield experimentation with strategic messaging, showcasing Russian capabilities across land, air, cyber, and nuclear domains…
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…
Ladakh Unrest and the Security Imperative: Why Statehood Is Not a Concession to Orchestrated Protests
Tejashree P V Granting full statehood to Ladakh at present would carry strategic, governance, and social risks that outweigh the political…
Reimagining International Relations: Building an India-Centric Theoretical and Strategic Framework
Archita Gaur This Sharp Scope issue explores the urgent need to reimagine IR from an India-centric perspective, grounded in civilisational…
From Strategic Convergence to Tariff Confrontation: The Arc of India–U.S. Relations, 1947–2025
Balaji Subramanian The India–U.S. relationship since 1947 has not been a straight line but an irregular arc, evolving from early…
Digital Currencies vs Dollar Hegemony: A Data-Based Geopolitical Analysis
Divyanka Tandon The most important geopolitical aspect of CBDCs is their potential to change cross-border payments. CBDCs could be the…