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The Hanoi Convention and the Contest to Shape Global Cybercrime Norms
International Affairs | Cyber Security | Cyber and Technology Nov 17, 2025

The Hanoi Convention and the Contest to Shape Global Cybercrime Norms

The UN’s cybercrime treaty reflects both the promise of multilateral cooperation and the steady erosion of liberal norms in global cyberspace governance. ...

Smithian Principles Reimagined by the UK-India FTA
International Trade and Investment Nov 17, 2025

Smithian Principles Reimagined by the UK-India FTA

By blending openness with calibrated safeguards, the UK-India FTA demonstrates how Adam Smith’s principles can be adapted to today’s complex global trade landscape ...

Tracing Sustainable Value Chains: Is India Ready for the EU’s Deforestation Regulation?
Climate Change Nov 17, 2025

Tracing Sustainable Value Chains: Is India Ready for the EU’s Deforestation Regulation?

As the EU’s deforestation regulation takes effect, India must strengthen traceability and digitalisation to retain market access and move up global value chains. ...

A mid-term referendum on Muizzu?
International Affairs Nov 15, 2025

A mid-term referendum on Muizzu?

The low turnout signals to President Muizzu, the PNC, and other parties that voter sentiment goes beyond manifestos and populist promises ...

Anchoring Climate Ambition in the Ocean: Lessons from COP30
Climate Change Nov 15, 2025

Anchoring Climate Ambition in the Ocean: Lessons from COP30

Anchoring climate ambition in the ocean is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to safeguarding vulnerable coastal and island communities. ...

Tokyo’s Taiwan Tightrope
International Affairs Nov 15, 2025

Tokyo’s Taiwan Tightrope

As cross-strait tensions intensify, Japan’s pacifist constraints collide with the hard geography of its security environment ...

NCRB's Crime Data Needs a Comprehensive Overhaul
Domestic Politics and Governance Nov 15, 2025

NCRB's Crime Data Needs a Comprehensive Overhaul

NCRB must prioritise timely reporting, adopt clearer counting methods, ensure fuller urban coverage, and undertake its own analytical research to strengthen the credibility of India’s crime statistics ...

Xi’s Blueprint for China’s High-Quality, Secure Growth
International Affairs Nov 14, 2025

Xi’s Blueprint for China’s High-Quality, Secure Growth

At the Fourth Plenum, China’s leadership reaffirmed Xi’s push for innovation-led, secure, and sustainable growth as the cornerstone of its 15th Five-Year Plan ...

Chemical Weapons Allegations in Sudan’s Escalating Conflict
International Affairs Nov 14, 2025

Chemical Weapons Allegations in Sudan’s Escalating Conflict

Sudan’s war crimes crisis deepens as chemical weapon use allegations surface, challenging the global community’s commitment to the Chemical Weapons Convention ...

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Sandra Thachirickal Prathap

Sandra Thachirickal Prathap

Sandra Thachirickal Prathap is a Research Assistant with the Observer Research Foundation’s (ORF) Strategic Studies Programme (SSP). Her research examines the geopolitical dynamics of the Global South, with a focus on how emerging powers engage with multilateral institutions, regional forums, and ...

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Sandra Thachirickal Prathap

Sandra Thachirickal Prathap is a Research Assistant with the Observer Research Foundation’s (ORF) Strategic Studies Programme (SSP). Her research examines the geopolitical dynamics of the Global South, with a focus on how emerging powers engage with multilateral institutions, regional forums, and ...

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