Beyond the Words and Photo-Op: The Quad’s Struggle for Cohesion and Concrete Action
Shashank Pandey If the Quad is to emerge from its Washington rendezvous with credibility intact, its members must turn shared…
Power, Peace, and the NPT: Navigating the Future of Nuclear Arms Control
Megna Devkar The Non-Proliferation Treaty has its flaws, but is still “the best legal bulwark we have against nuclear war”,…
INS Tamal: Unveiling India’s Next-Generation Stealth Frigate and Its Path to Aatmanirbhar Bharat
Piyush Anand Tamal, the final foreign-built frigate to join the Indian Navy, embarks on history, not as a conclusion, but…
Building Blue Economies: Small-Scale Fisheries as the Front Line Against IUU and for Food Security
Lakshmi Karlekar & Aanchal Pandey The Indo-Pacific area has turned into a playground in the twenty-first century, where the unbridled pursuit of illicit…
India’s Strategic Autonomy: Balancing Act in a Fragmented Multipolar World
Archita Gaur India is emerging as a balancer in a multipolar, fragmented world, where it does not align fully with…
Rewiring the Ballot for a New India in the Age of Digital Democracy
Alok Virendra Tiwari The Digital India initiative, a transformative mission capable of making government services electronically available under the enhancement of…
Forging Tri-Services Synergy: The Evolution of Integrated Defence from Fragmentation to Unified Command in India
Dhruv Ashok and Viswapramod C This issue brief traces India’s journey from fragmented defence structures post-1947 to the current push for integrated theatre…
Israel-Iran Conflict: Lessons, Implications, and India’s Strategic Roadmap
Rajeev KS In today’s world, real power lies not just in having stockpiles of missiles or money, but in the…
From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment: India’s Strategic Recalibration in the Indo-Pacific
India wants to protect its interests by using a flexible, multi-directional foreign policy that takes into account the…
India’s Rare Earth Elements (REEs) Conundrum: The Looming Resource Crisis and the Road Ahead
Abhinav Sharma Despite possessing the world’s third-largest reserves of rare earth elements (REEs), India is now facing a severe supply…