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From New Delhi’s perspective, these minilaterals in the Middle East offer wider geopolitical and geoeconomic connections with critical partners
Eight million Indians work in the region and send over $50 billion in remittances. This will change
Erdogan said that by carrying out attacks, the terrorist organisation PKK is trying to make its presence felt in Cizre.
Prolonged turmoil in the West Asia region could result in rising oil prices and interruption in India's trade with the region valued at $120 billion a year. India should have contingency plans in place to deal with unforeseeable consequences of a spreading conflagration.
The US interest in West Asia is declining as domestic economic and political uncertainties make it look more and more inwards. The shale oil and gas boom is transforming energy markets with the US likely to emerge as the world's biggest combined oil and gas producer this year. These trends are reshaping the regional order in West Asia and New Delhi will have to respond pro-actively to preserve and enhance its own interests in a strategically crit
By exiting the Iran nuclear deal and guiding the Abraham Accords to fruition, did Trump’s disruptions succeed in American foreign policy’s most ho
At a conference on "Transformations in West Asia: The Next Steps" in Delhi, speakers said each country must develop its unique path to achieve democracy, based on the historical and current social, political and economic context.
Asian states, particularly Asian economies importing oil as primary customers today, will see a demand for a significant increase in their military fo
Arabs got talent, and they need technology to make its best use. But how much of reliance is enough?
From partnerships formed in and around the Non-Aligned Movement to critical components such as energy security and diaspora, much has changed in India
The F-35 saga in West Asia shows at some level what America’s dealings with the region is going to be.
India could leverage evolving ties with West Asia to expand on muli-modal links from Mumbai to Europe, via the Arab world
The 'Arab Spring' has given an opportunity to India to present itself as a model to other countries, feels Prof Gawdat Bhagat of the Near-East and South Asia Centre for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, Washington DC.
The turn observed by global economics over the past decade has not only put developing economies in Asia at the centre of the global growth story but also reshaped how countries in West Asia approached India.
Will the continued attacks on Abu Dhabi douse the glimmer of optimism raised by recent efforts to bring about peace in West Asia?
West Asia’s geostrategic shift can be witnessed as the Middle Eastern countries increasingly develop closer ties with China
As 2024 moves closer, the vague Middle East policy blueprint of the US is only fuelling the “power in recession” narrative
Despite the diplomatic normalisation, fundamental issues that divide Saudi Arabia and Iran will remain. Can China deliver as a peacemaker in West Asia
As the complicated nature of security across this geography changes, the Asian footprint is expected to only grow
Beijing's expanding footprint in this oil-rich region has set the stage for a competition with Washington
While China’s push into Iran is impressive on paper, how Beijing puts this into practice will be the major point to follow.
While China may aid West Asian countries to hedge their interests against the US, the lack of Chinese diplomacy on ground shows that there is still a
The Chinese outreach in West Asia has been arguably subtle and careful.
As China continues to exert its influence in West Asia, the US must manoeuvre itself to make sure it does not play second-fiddle to either Moscow or B
The West is straining to maintain control over the Gaza war while simultaneously dealing with the conflict in Ukraine; will China be able to make the
The China-brokered Saudi Arabia-Iran deal puts the spotlight on New Delhi’s ties with Tehran
India stands a good chance to benefit from the shift in global trade triggered by the pandemic, and could fill in the vacuum by supplying West Asian c
While successfully balancing relations between Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia power blocks, New Delhi’s affinity for this Gulf outreach is rooted in geopolitical and geo-economic realities
France is stepping up its strategic role, providing an alternative for countries seeking security guarantees from a powerful, nuclear, Western militar
The cracks in the world order provide terrorist outfits ample space to regroup and reorganise
Hamas attack and Israel’s response to these terror strikes will single-handedly reshape the trajectory of regional geopolitics at least in the near
The Hamas attack may impose new security and political realities on the region and pose challenges in an election year for Biden
The Taliban story has only just resumed and could see a return of the US and other powers to this theatre in the future as global jihadist movements v
Gulf capitals are attracted towards the concept of ‘strategic autonomy’, one that is attractive on paper but challenging in practice
