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Fourteen years ago, in 1996, Dr Vijay Kelkar, one of my distinguished predecessors in the long list of luminaries who have delivered this Lecture, said, "What petroleum was to the 20th century, natural gas will be to the 21st."
Western narratives on energy security that tend to exaggerate threats to scare the rest of the world into action are mostly about their interests. The
India has to see through its energy transition commitments while dealing with fiscal constraints and institutional challenges
The prosperity of the past seven decades has led the European continent adrift in the cold waters of strategic lethargy.
The importance of today's Africa for India is self-evident. India's ambitions of being a global power cannot be achieved without the support of the African continent consisting of 55 countries. Nowhere is the importance of African countries felt more than on the issue of the expansion of the UN Security Council.
Whether China will be able to implement its commitments at a fast pace and accord priority to important areas of cooperation will ultimately depend on
An international conference on "Engaging with a resurgent Africa" was organised in New Delhi on 20th and 21st of November. It was organised jointly by Observer Research Foundation and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung of Germany.
By unlocking the youth’s potential, we build a more prosperous, healthier, and empowering future for them, for the nation, and for generations to co
Mainstreaming gender in urbanisation can be a useful tool in understanding and tackling exclusionary growth and access to resources in urban spaces more generally.
Growing political instability in Myanmar and financial issues have stymied the progress of the Trilateral Highway project
As technologies evolve, so do threats.
Cyber security should take centrestage in nuclear-policymaking. This brief evaluates the current state of cyber security in India’s civilian and military nuclear systems, as gleaned from both incidents of breach on-ground and analyses in the public discourse. It outlines the level of threats faced in this domain, and makes a case for the development of policy measures for an integrated cyber-nuclear security strategy.
HOW to ensure food security and control inflation has emerged as a major challenge for the government in the New Year. The hangover of food inflation from 2010 cannot be ignored as it is still in double digits.
How can supply reliability be ensured in the Indian power system?
Governments are now required to adapt regulation in an agile fashion to ensure the protection of public goods throughout endeavours of economic growth
Adequate access to water is not only a human right but it also forms the cornerstone of economic development. It is growing in importance in Asia where the population is rising at an exponential rate making it home to more than half of the world's population.
Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine follows its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its continued direct support for separatist activities in eastern Ukraine, marking a new chapter in Moscow's geopolitical approach. China's response and its overt diplomatic, financial, and economic support for Russia was also noteworthy. This brief assesses the contours of the new geopolitical formation (the ‘DragonBear’, a term coined by this author)
The SCO is not another SAARC, and its member states will most likely not sit by and watch their agenda hijacked by a bilateral dispute.
The entry of the youth and the new political parties into Nepalese politics is a welcome development as people become disenchanted with old leaders
This crisis will be etched in our memories long after we have found its cure but what we will remember the most is how we felt, what we did and who we
The interrelationship between the troika—president, prime minister and the army chief—impairs Pakistan’s political system
A pandemic-stricken India frantically grapples with a jolt to an education system that is seemingly ill-equipped to handle the transition to distance
The tensions between India and Pakistan have to be seriously examined and ways and means to bring back normalcy should be worked out and implemented. India stands to lose much more if terrorist organisations are deployed in various cities in the country at a time of Pakistan's choice.
A global platform can be one where cities learn from each other, share best practices, discuss challenges — and seek solutions together.
This paper presents an approach towards promoting nutritional security on one hand, and water security on the other, in an integrated framework. Using econometric models, it delineates water use efficiency on the basis of calorific estimates of the productivity of agricultural water use in the context of various crops. Based on the estimated marginal product of water across the various crops, the paper finds that alternative crops such as maize a
The Estonian experience has showed us that DPI and DPG are both viable and valuable tools for the process of administrative and political modernisatio
Striking a balance between technological advancement and ethical considerations will be essential to safeguard human rights and global security
The challenge of keeping all the regions within a federal framework by balancing opposing forces with recurrent demands for autonomy within the federa
Although the President’s efforts were applauded for the outreach, it seems that the peace overtures were motivated by political and economic reasons
South Sudan does not possess the political leadership to resolve the current crisis of citizenship and governance. But it is time for an unbiased state to step in and address vital issues and questions that it did not address immediately after independence for the collective sake of all South Sudanese.
Ethnicity, security and connectivity identified as the foundational pillars of the multifaceted bilateral ties between India and Myanmar — an event report.
If Europeans do not support more directly their participants in this race, they risk being taken over by third party contenders or IT giants deciding
Under WTO rules such a move would require consensus that can only be worked out by extensive negotiations.
