Strategic Energy Economics: India’s Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Gains from Discounted Russian Oil
Daljeet Singh Discounted Russian oil lowered import costs, kept fuel prices stable, controlled inflation, and strengthened the rupee and forex…
Russia Launches Massive Drone Strike on Ukraine, Extensive Damage Prolongs Peace Process
Anshu Mishra Russia attacked Ukraine with 810 drones and decoys, while the Ukrainian Air Force stated that they were able…
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…
How India’s Oil Refining Power Balanced Global Inflation and Geopolitics
Balaji Subramanian From a minimal capacity in the 1990s, India became the world’s third-largest refiner with 254 MTPA by 2023,…
Beijing Military Parade – Signalling Alliances Beyond the US Sphere
Samarth Tripathi Diplomacy played out alongside the march past. Putin and Kim held talks on the sidelines, building on a…
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 Impact of Western Sanctions on Russia’s Trade Flows: A Data-Driven Look at the Pivot to China, Surge with India, and Non-Western Realignment
Russia’s trade geography has changed as a result of Western sanctions that have been in place since the…
Optics Over Outcomes: The Trump–Putin Alaska Meeting and the Illusion of Breakthrough
Shashank Pandey A headline-grabbing meeting with a historic adversary provides instant rewards for an incumbent U.S. president keen to boost…
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