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Despite broad consensus on issues like terrorism and multilateral reform, BRICS remains constrained by strategic tensions, limited institutional manda

As China tightens its grip on Tibet, Bhutan adopts a pragmatic stance—balancing sovereignty, and national interests with quiet resolve.

As maritime dynamics in the Western Indian Ocean continue to evolve, sustained Indian engagement in the region will be necessary to safeguard national

ब्रिक्सबद्दल वाढणाऱ्या आकर्षणात जागतिक व्यवस्थेचे प्र�

BRICS's growing appeal reflects a shifting world order as nations seek flexible, multipolar cooperation over rigid Western-led frameworks. Will it del

India and Estonia, leading digital nations, are exploring a strategic cybersecurity partnership. Success will depend on India balancing its diplomatic

चीन, रशिया आणि भारत या त्रिमितीय समीकरणामध्ये चीनने भारत

स्पोर्ट्स डिप्लोमसीने आंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंधांवर मोठ्या �

In the triangular dynamics between China, Russia, and India, China must accept deeper India-Russia ties or risk losing Russia to Indo-Pacific geopolit

Sports diplomacy has significantly influenced international relations, but to maximize its potential, concrete policies and diplomatic actions are ess

चीनचे धोके कमी करण्यासाठी भारताचे मजबूत अर्थव्यवस्थेच्

As major economies attempt to de-risk from China, India can make the most of this opportunity by attracting global economic investments in varied sect

निवडणुका जिंकण्याकरता सामाजिक-आर्थिक विषाच्या मात्रेव�

ONOE would be a great help in substantially minimizing the effects of using polarisation based on socio-economic toxicity to win elections

Statecraft needs more than just diplomacy. This bilateral crisis with India exposes Trudeau to be lacking in these key qualities.

The real challenge is to translate the call for climate cooperation iterated at the G20 Summit in New Delhi into deeds given the divergent development

Brazil does not have to choose between the US or China; Brasília will continue to engage with both based on its own national interests

History has coloured the current responses of South Asian countries to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine

Both India and the US seek to cooperate on the issue of Afghanistan as they share coinciding strategic national interests, including preventing Afgh

Despite taking different stances, the South Asian states’ response to the Ukrainian crisis is primarily moulded by their national interests.

How should liberal democracies in Europe, each with relatively small populations and split by differing conceptions of national interest, deal with th

As in 1944, two challenges lie ahead — to fight the warfare today and build a better tomorrow. Economic policy must be effective on the run and forw

Militaries must focus on their primary task of protecting our national interests, and no biological incident can hinder it from carrying out its assig

The way China is encroaching in continental South Asia and the maritime domain of the Indian Ocean — it can raise the hackles of any Indian leadersh

Sheikh Hasina's visit to India is viewed with a lot of expectations by both the countries and international observers.

This paper revisits India’s contribution to institution building efforts in BRICS to suggest India’s keen interest in leveraging BRICS for fulfilling its national objectives on domestic economic growth and global governance. However, this paper notes, multiple competing imperatives of global governance and national interests within BRICS have led to asymmetric gains among members. BRICS suffers from weak cooperation in global trade, technolog

The norm to protect the public core of the internet, originally advocated by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, can be operationalised in two ways. Both a layered approach and a functional approach to defining the public core of the internet provide productive ways to discuss safeguarding the functionality and integrity of the core logical and physical infrastructure of the internet from unwarranted state interventions. Thi

The two countries need to pause and think through every step they take, lest they get caught in an unending cycle of conflict.

Bandwagoning with the US cannot be a substitute for a working foreign policy in our own region and near abroad.

In a perceptive essay written some years ago, Joseph Nye had observed that "national interest is a slippery concept used to describe as well as prescribe policy." Decades earlier, the philosopher Gilbert Ryle had cautioned against "systematically misleading expressions" couched in a syntactical form improper to the facts recorded.

The 'multiple identities' of the Tamil-speaking people in the country have suddenly acquired an urgent need for mutual understanding between the State and the citizen. There are contextualised circumstances, which may not provide for a yard-stick to measure 'national interests' or prioritise them.

We will see the rise of a New World Order driven by national interest, reliability of partners, and of course, economic factors. India has to use a “Gated Globalisation” framework to negotiate this change.

Nations act solely in supreme national interest. China’s response to the Pahalgam terror strike is in steady contrast with its own stand on many issues

China has sometimes been cordial to sanction imposers depending on the issue-salience of the sanction, yet its posture towards international sanctions regimes remains cold, especially when they conflict with its national interests.

China has discarded the traditional emphasis on criticising the arms control agreements promoted by the Western powers and focuses instead on securing Beijing's national interests by actively participating in international and regional military negotiations and shaping the international military norms.

The relative degree of success of President Barack Obama's visit to India will depend on the extent to which the tough US demands on defence trade be eased to accommodate India's strategic needs without compromising national interests from both sides.

It is absolutely necessary that the central government must consult the state concerned, take care of its grievances, and take it on board while making a decision. At the same time an effective foreign policy requires that the Centre will be in a position to draw the line and assert that the national interest must trump any other interest.

India's vote at Geneva in favour of the UNHRC resolution critical of Sri Lanka possibly signals the increasing vulnerability of national interests to regional interests dictated by the necessity of coalition politics. India's this strategic folly would once again rebound to China's and Pakistan's advantage.

The financial health of the Indian Railways, the single largest employer in the Government of India, has been in a dismal state for some time now. With the recent merging of the railways budget with the general budget, it has become a daunting exercise to conduct an analysis of railway finances. Yet, it is no doubt in the national interest to not only locate the shortcomings in the system but also explore solutions to improve performance. This pa

This paper considers and explains the shifts and consistencies in India’s engagement with structures of global trade governance beginning from the Uruguay round of trade negotiations in late 1980s. It makes three major arguments. First, that although India has participated actively in global trade negotiations since the establishment of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) it was only under the present-day trade governance institut

India has had modest success in its efforts to internationally isolate Pakistan as a state-sponsor of terrorism. More effective in this regard has been Pakistan’s own duplicity vis-à-vis the West. Indian discourse has not resonated abroad because it relies too heavily on respect for vague global norms rather than adherence to specific national interests, which are more easily comprehended by foreign governments. New Delhi’s previous failures

India is on its way to becoming “the Saudi Arabia of data”. This brief argues that India enjoys unmatched advantages of demography, economy, and geography and could be a hub of the submarine cable network that would facilitate the transport of data across the Indian Ocean. India’s public and private sectors should leverage these advantages to push the country to the centrestage of connectivity across the region and beyond. India’s

The Bay of Bengal has to be viewed as a region that can cater to the independent national interests of littorals.

A paradigm shift in India-Israel ties came in July 2017 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on a state visit to Israel, becoming the first Indian prime minister to do so. The two countries have since elevated their ties to a strategic partnership; a pillar of this relationship is defence. Such is a function of their respective national interests: India’s long-sought goals of military modernisation, and Israel’s comparative advantage in com

Canada’s world-class energy resources and national interests in global energy diplomacy must be articulated coherently and to the fullest

When a government yields to every pressure group at home, its capacity to pursue national interests abroad inevitably erodes. The UPA government's diplomacy in the final months of its decade-long tenure is a good example of the costs of violating this canon. The failure to clinch a commercial agreement on Kudankulam with Moscow is not a reflection on India's diplomatic skills.

India, China and the US share a similar perspective on balancing economic interests with climate-action, seeking a pragmatic approach to combat climate change through plausible self-determined contributions that are cognizant of national interests, says former Union Environment Secretary N R Krishnan.