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Economic ties between India and Russia have remained the weakest link in their bilateral relationship since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both countries have set out to correct this in the past two years, making efforts to diversify their relationship beyond the defence and energy sectors as they navigate a changing world order. This brief analyses the developments in India-Russia relations since the May 2018 Sochi informal summit and the 201

To achieve all that Modi has promised, he needs a peaceful periphery and a stable world order. At home, Modi may be master of all he surveys, but abroad, there are other players, some positive, others inimical. There are issues, such as US-Iran tensions, US-China trade spat, rising climate of protectionism and Brexit, that he cannot control.

Technology is vital to enabling accelerated socio-economic growth, effective governance, and relief delivery at scale. Many economies are adopting and developing technology-first frameworks to strengthen their population’s social welfare net, and support economic growth. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed both the challenges and opportunities in India that can be addressed and driven by multidimensional technology frameworks. With the rebalancin

In response to their experience of western colonialism, countries like China and India have sought to develop their own, indigenous and autonomous technology base. China, in the last 30 years, has succeeded in this endeavour, becoming a major manufacturing power and adopting policies to develop and market its own technologies. Such success, however, is not without critics. Developed countries, especially the US which is its principal trading part

As China’s rise threatens the democratic rules, values, and institutions that have shaped the post-war world order, the United States (US) is increasing its outreach in the Indo-Pacific region. Distant South Asian island nations such as Sri Lanka are today receiving greater attention from the US. This brief seeks to bridge the gap in the literature on the US’s Sri Lanka policy and highlights how the current US government positions Sri Lanka i

Now, the Chinese are facing a larger geopolitical push back but they appear confident that they have the means of fighting off the challenge.

What is the trajectory of Indo-Russian relations in the evolving world order?

The evolving contours of modern geopolitics is still in a state of flux, and there is wisdom in accepting the notion that the end result is perhaps indeterminable. The age of disruption is here, countries that thrive on disorder may do well in the short term, while nations who invest in stability may well define the future of globalisation and, indeed, the new world order

BRICS and SCO are two key non-Western multilateral platforms where India and Russia cooperate closely. In the past decade, both these countries have seen shifts in their foreign policies, which has also impacted their approach towards multilateralism. At the same time, BRICS and SCO have also seen their initial agendas widen to include a greater engagement with regional and global issues, including the creation of a multipolar world order. Along

Since the end of the Cold War, the world order has been in a state of dynamic transition. With unprecedented military, economic and technological preponderance, the US dominates the scene. Europe is reunited, at peace and engaged in consolidating its political unity and economic integration.

Power won’t leave India alone, even if Indians claim to be disinterested in power

If rich nations want to preserve the liberal order, they must invest in the institutions that can help poorer countries survive this crisis.

ORF publication 'BRIC in the New World Order' was released in South Africa recently. The event was organised by the South African Institute of International Affairs. Its National Director Ms Elizabeth Sidiropoulos introduced the book and delivered the opening remarks. The launch was followed by a round-table discussion.

With the BRICS summit, India has tried to re-imagine the multilateral forum to serve its larger strategic ends in the world order

President Bill Clinton's five-day visit to India in 2000 followed by a five-hour stopover in Islamabad convinced New Delhi that the world order had changed. Relationships were to be shaped by the new post cold war realities, not old loyalties.

Russia is widely regarded as one of the major revisionist powers in the world, determined to upend the global liberal order. To be a global power, Russia must become a maritime power as well. Thus, it seeks to gain control in Eurasia and the region between the Black Sea and the Baltic region. The North European Plain and the river Danube hold strategic significance for Russia, the former being a gateway to Europe and the latter the economic lynch

Seeing an LTTE ghost where none may exist across the Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar, the Sri Lankan authorities could be expected to act even more feverishly in the coming months -- the Geneva vote having emboldened separatist Diaspora groups to revive their failed misadventure, in a new avtar and under a 'new world order'!

Reverberations of post-colonial themes of finding ‘voice’ fuse with the leapfrog of technology for cooperation in the emerging world on achieving sustainable development goals - a report from the Conference on Technology, Innovation and Society at Tangier in June 2019.

Countries like India that have relied on the extant order for furthering their economic and security agendas will have to rethink their own roles and priorities

What does it mean to speak of an ‘Indian’ approach to international affairs? Indian International Relations (IR) is commonly presented as merely a derivative of ‘western’ disciplinary traditions in Europe and North America. This obscures the vast body of work on political science and international thought that emerged from the beginning of the 20th century amongst South Asian intellectuals, scholars, and activists. This forgotten history

At a time when the world order is intensely polarised, India remains one of the few nations which can engage with both the G-7 and BRICS in a matter of days with élan.

Iran’s oil sales are at a five-year high as the US looks the other way despite sanctions. Iran is smartly undercutting Russia in selling cheaper oil and upset Saudi Arabia’s plan to profiteer from production cuts. The new world order being shaped amid the US-China battle for global supremacy equally belongs to countries charting independent paths

The problem is that there is ambiguity on which rules and whose rules

The United Nations (UN) has recently been plagued by several crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, the Taliban’s return in Afghanistan, and the Ukraine war—that have tested its ability to deliver on humanity’s projects of peace and security, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian response. Indeed, its actions and inactions in the Ukraine war have triggered an existential dilemma. India must use this moment of creative destruction

This year reinforced, with unmistakable clarity, the fact that the use of force remains a crucial mechanism through which states renegotiate the terms of their engagement with one another

Trump’s election will push US policy inward and have significant implications for the world order

Under President Trump, the United States seems to adopting an unprecedented antagonistic stance against the institutions, commitments, and unpronounced precedents alike, of the liberal world order that the US itself put in place in the aftermath of the Second World War.

It will be a world where neither America nor China can set the terms

India is still coming to grips with the emerging multi-polar world order and managing great power relations still appears to be a major challenge for Delhi. India is keen on developing stronger partnership with the US. But, on the other hand, it is also concerned about the reaction of China and, increasingly, of Russia.

The emphasis will be on engagement, competition and cooperation

The international system may not revert to Cold War era blocs. But some tough choices lie ahead for countries

With tectonic and technological challenges causing disruptions, the neat correlation of a big economy with big power that bears big responsibilities is under scrutiny.

The Trump administration is signalling that the US is no longer interested in sustaining Pax Americana—not ideationally and not materially

चीनची आफ्रिकेतील दीर्घकालीन खेळी ही केवळ आर्थिक प्रभावासंबंधी नाही की लष्करी ताकदीपुरतीही मर्यादित नाही. ती मुत्सद्देगिरीच्या आणि प्रभावाच्या सूक्ष्म कौशल्याशीही सं

जी राष्ट्रे स्थिरता आणि शांततेत गुंतवणूक करू पाहत आहेत, तीच जागतिकीकरणाचे भविष्य आणि नवी जागतिक व्यवस्था निश्चित करू शकतील.

आंतरराष्ट्रीय कायदे मुद्दामहून कमकुवत ठेवले गेले आहेत. ज्यायोगे ताकदवान देश त्यांचा आपल्या मनाप्रमाणे अर्थ लावून, आपला हेतू साध्य करतात.

गुआंशी, चीन की संस्कृति का अटूट अंग है. ये निजी संबंधों और साझा ज़िम्मेदारियों के ज़रिए आपसी आदान प्रदान के सिद्धांत पर आधारित परिकल्पना है.

एकीकडे देश कोरोना साथरोगामुळे निर्माण झालेल्या आव्हानांशी सामना करीत असताना, भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्थाही त्यातून अनेक धडे घेत आहे.

अमेरिकी वर्चस्व का युग खत्म हो रहा है और यह बड़ी ताकतों के बीच जबर्दस्त मुकाबले व बढ़ती बहु-ध्रुवीयता के कारण संभव हो सका है.

आज जगात महासत्ता उरलेली नाही. शेवटची महासत्ता अमेरिका होती आणि ती १० वर्षांपूर्वी आर्थिक संकटाने संपली. कोरोना साथीत अमेरिका जगाच्या नेतृत्त्वस्थानी नव्हती.

आज जगात महासत्ता उरलेली नाही. शेवटची महासत्ता अमेरिका होती आणि ती १० वर्षांपूर्वी आर्थिक संकटाने संपली. कोरोना साथीत अमेरिका जगाच्या नेतृत्त्वस्थानी नव्हती.

आज जगात महासत्ता उरलेली नाही. शेवटची महासत्ता अमेरिका होती आणि ती १० वर्षांपूर्वी आर्थिक संकटाने संपली. कोरोना साथीत अमेरिका जगाच्या नेतृत्त्वस्थानी नव्हती.