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India, Iran and Russia have decided to begin using the part-ready International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a multimodal network of sea, rail and road routes between India, Iran, Central Asia and Russia. As the broader politics in the region undergo new configurations that may put to question the project’s prospects, and the evolving security situation demands continuous appraisal, it is time to refocus discussion on the economics o
The Biden administration has been uncommonly vigorous in shaping American policy to maintain American hegemony or Globalisation 2.0
In the face of growing domestic turmoil, how will Nepal manage geopolitical challenges that are brewing in the region?
Power won’t leave India alone, even if Indians claim to be disinterested in power
It is necessary to contextualise the North Korean nuclear crisis with regards to Asian geopolitics and its implications for India.
Against the backdrop of increasing Chinese territorial assertiveness, the logic of geopolitics dictates that both India and the U.S. have vital interests in strengthening defense cooperation. In June, US and India signed a 10-year defence framework agreement.
Pakistan’s strategic calculations in Afghanistan have backfired, leaving it entangled in the complexities of the South Asian geopolitics.
As an increasingly powerful China seeks to reorder Asia, Delhi must firmly locate China's Panchsheel campaign in a clinical assessment of Asia's rapidly evolving geopolitics and its consequences for Indian security. China is doing what rising powers, including the US, have done before. But Delhi appears a long way from developing an appropriate strategy to cope with Asia's new power play.
Pakistan can draw crucial lessons from Sri Lanka’s success as the former continues to negotiate for a US$ 1.1-billion tranche from the IMF to stabil
On 1 January 2020, the Ministry of External Affairs announced the establishment under its wing of the New, Emerging and Strategic Technologies (NEST) division. This marked a welcome addition to the government’s organisational capacities in an era increasingly being characterised by the interplay of technology, trade, security and geopolitics. This brief outlines the global and domestic context that will surround the operations of the NEST divis
In November 2022, Qatar will become the first state in West Asia and the Arab world to host the coveted FIFA football World Cup. Doha’s winning the hosting rights has brought the country—home to only 2.9 million people, more than eight out of every ten of whom are foreign workers—out of the shadow of its large, and more powerful regional neighbours such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This brief views thi
India will have to carefully navigate the emerging regional geopolitics in BIMSTEC
Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, India–UK ties remain unfettered to harness new strategic convergences in sync with contemporary realities
A global arms race and geopolitical pressures are shaping the military use of AI
Present-day geopolitics has provided a unique opportunity for both India and Egypt to bolster their relations
Several emerging trends like increasing congestion of global commons, especially in the maritime domain and the rapid development of disruptive techno
The year 2024 is poised to be a period of significant transformation, characterised by extensive changes on both domestic and international fronts
Geopolitics of South China Sea appears to be ever-changing with approach of the Philippines towards China assuming a shift under current President Duterte
Zooming out and looking at South Asian geopolitics, India appears to be reaching out, repairing and resetting relations with several of its smaller ne
At the Galle Dialogue 2016, Sri Lanka sought not only to stress its critical geographical location at the crossroads of important Indian Ocean sea lines of communication, but also to display a catalytic ability to spur regional collaboration in securing the vulnerable commons.
Without proper legislation, states using non-state actors for cyberwarfare pose a significant threat to governments, businesses, and individuals
While resource exploitation in the Artic may offer short-term gains, the long-term consequences for the planet outweigh them
The growing strategic ties with Mekong nations such as Vietnam and Myanmar indicate deepening mutual trust in the rapidly changing regional geopolitic
A tech Cold War is beginning to reshape global geopolitics.
Innovative approaches will require regulatory processes to include all stakeholders.
The African Sahel region demands the attention of the global community on countering terrorism
The fall of Nagorno-Karabakh could lead to the rise of a new geopolitical order in the Caucasus and beyond
What are the emerging geopolitical implications of water sharing of the Brahmaputra between China and India?
Asia’s growing space race is indicative of the larger geopolitical competition in the region. China’s rise and the strategic uncertainties it has created are particularly worrying to India and Japan, leading to surprisingly fast-growing India-Japan strategic cooperation.
A fast-changing game of geopolitics is also changing one of the US' oldest and most consequential strategic relationships in the Middle East
There is a growing need to analyse the Free Trade Agreements to understand their impact on the economy and the geopolitical repercussions that follow.
While the strategic partnership between the United States and India remains robust, some analysts see the relationship as becoming significantly strai
Ukraine and the US alike see opportunity in the Global South’s multipolarity, because the so-called ‘Global South’ is presenting itself as one
The growing influence of non-state militant actors in the global order needs to be scrutinised
Geopolitics has split the world again and bloc-wise trade arrangements will have winners and losers
Six geopolitical lines will define the contours of the emerging global order
Global geopolitics is in a state of intense flux. China’s rise has led to greater competition in the international system, with the United States and the post-War global order coming under increasing challenge. China’s high economic growth rate in the past several decades has meant bigger military budgets. In turn, its military rise threatens security in the Indo-Pacific region where China seeks to dominate, from the Himalayas to South China
India and the United States are natural allies because of structural and systemic convergences that the two countries experience in contemporary globa
India need not bite the bait, it can use the space created for pushing its own agenda with China which includes resolving our border dispute, getting the Pakistani monkey off our backs and getting better terms of trade from the Chinese. China is unlikely to yield anything easily, but if the emerging Indo-Pacific geopolitics provides an opportunity, New Delhi would be foolish to look the other way.
Where the stakes are high, political leaders have few incentives to take intelligence warnings seriously.
US President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy for America’s longest war has potential to drastically alter existing regional relations. The policy, announced after an exhaustive eight-month-long review process, attempts to give a new direction for future US involvement in Afghanistan. Becoming president at a time when old alignments are undergoing transition, Trump’s task has not been easy. Given the constraints, however, Trump’s A
India needs to improve its border infrastructure in the background of the changing geopolitics of Asia that will increasingly be shaped by Sino-Indian relations, pointed out a panel discussion on "India's Border Infrastructure" at ORF.
Questions about the utility of globalisation are not new. Could the COVID-19 outbreak be the final nail on the coffin for an idea that drove the world economy in the past three decades? In theory, countries would produce what they specialised in, leaving it to the market to ensure everyone got a better price for it. As 2020 began, the pandemic spread from one province of China and soon disrupted production across the world. Countries banned the
The Paris Agreement differs radically in as much that the commitment made by a Party in the Agreement is basically about the process.
All the big government pieces—from geopolitics to geoeconomics—will be the key drivers of global finance over the next year
