Takaichi’s earlier remarks on Taiwan have made foreign policy a key pillar of the election campaign, signalling a harder security line that has intensified tensions with China ...
Once insulated from rivalry, the Arctic now faces mounting insecurity as geopolitics, climate risks, and new actors fracture regional governance ...
India frames AI as a healthcare ‘force multiplier’ for care gaps via frugal, application-led tools, yet uneven outcomes, bias, and weak oversight show the need for stronger governance and representative data ...
India–France space cooperation, rooted in strategic autonomy and decades of technological trust, is quietly evolving to shape a more contested and commercialised space order ...
Union Budget 2026–27 recasts development spending as an investment in assets, employment, and industrial capability within a constrained fiscal envelope ...
The Trump administration’s approval for South Korea to build nuclear-powered attack submarines strengthens deterrence against North Korea while raising concerns over non-proliferation and regional stability ...
Union Budget 2026–27 illustrates India’s turn towards a more disciplined geoeconomic posture, where external fiscal commitments are shaped by deliverability, compliance, and regional stability ...
Budget 2026 reveals how India’s aid diplomacy remains anchored in neighbourhood-first commitments, even as global uncertainty tempers its broader development ambitions ...
As India’s interests and influence expand, it needs calibrated economic, symbolic, and military playbooks to deter distant adversaries ...
As India's DPI 2.0 evolves UPI into universal data empowerment, boosting productivity and inclusion, it also needs interoperability, competition safeguards, and trust via consent to avoid exclusion ...
Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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