Featured

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Childhood Diabetes: Sweet Risks and Health Priorities
Healthcare Nov 14, 2025

Childhood Diabetes: Sweet Risks and Health Priorities

India’s children are growing up in a world where sweetness has turned from celebration to risk, demanding stronger policies, smarter technology, and fairer care to protect their health. ...

AI Copilots for Good Governance and Efficient Public Service Delivery
Privacy & Data Protection | Artificial Intelligence Nov 13, 2025

AI Copilots for Good Governance and Efficient Public Service Delivery

AI copilots can revolutionise governance in India by enhancing citizen access, compliance, and service delivery through intelligent, multilingual assistance. Yet their success depends on addressing challenges of privacy, bias, regulation, and digital inclusion to ensure secure, equitable, and transparent adoption. ...

Myanmar’s Raid on KK Park: Unpacking the Implications for India
International Affairs Nov 13, 2025

Myanmar’s Raid on KK Park: Unpacking the Implications for India

Myanmar’s raid on KK Park exposes the nexus of cyber fraud, trafficking, and militarised patronage—and the urgent need for India-led regional cooperation. ...

Contributors

Sobir Kurbanov

Sobir Kurbanov

Sobir Kurbanov is an international development expert and fellow at Nightingale Int. with over 20 years of experience in partnership-building, complex market reforms, program management, and teaching policy reform, public sector economics, and industrial policy across Eurasia. His expertise spans ...

Read More + Vlad Paddack

Vlad Paddack

Vlad Paddack is a Senior Analyst at AKE International and a Fellow at Nightingale Int., specialising in Eurasian security and political affairs, with a particular focus on Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. His work examines the ...

Read More +