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Necessity underpins the new India-EU bonhomie

Necessity underpins the new India-EU bonhomie

One of the reasons why India and Europe will grow closer in the days ahead is because much of the world they disagreed about no longer exists

03.03.2025 20

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Trump 2.0 is also an opportunity for India

The US president’s disruptive politics will reshape the world order. New Delhi must seize the moment

17.02.2025 10

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The Trump factor in India’s China policy

Delhi may need to recalibrate its balancing of power equations in the event of a rapprochement between Washington and Beijing

03.02.2025 10

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The balancing China question before India

India’s China problem is not going away anytime soon; China will continue to be a profound grand strategic issue for us. If we think temporary...

20.01.2025 20

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A new chapter for India’s regional strategic policy

India’s neighbourhood ties will have its wins and losses in the neighbourhood, and it must learn to take them in its stride.

07.01.2025 7

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Foreign policy experts must listen to the street

While governments may not base their policies solely on the changing mood of the street, this indeed serves as an important indicator of societal...

23.12.2024 4

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Grand Strategy | How minilateralism is reshaping global order

Minilateralism is on the rise today for several reasons. The primary reason is the failure of multilateralism and the emergence of global...

09.12.2024 3

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Ukraine war in the grand chessboard of geopolitics

The Ukraine war marks 1,000 days, with Russia gaining an upper hand. Western support has been insufficient, and future dynamics remain uncertain.

25.11.2024 3

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The Trump inflection on US foreign policy

Unless his second term differs dramatically from the first, we can expect a mostly disinterested and extractive approach to global engagement by...

07.11.2024 3

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The ideational dimension of India’s China challenge

While there is good news from the LAC, the China challenge to India is a long-term one that has both material and intellectual/ideational elements.

03.11.2024 2

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Grand Strategy | The new template for dialogue with Pakistan

A clinical minimalism focussed on conflict management appears to define New Delhi’s engagement with Islamabad

20.10.2024 1

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Grand Strategy | The age of nuclear adventurism

One key lesson many states are drawing from the Russia-Ukraine war is that a nuclear-armed Ukraine would have been better off.

14.10.2024 2

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Grand Strategy | A year after the Hamas strike, insecurity grows

Israel’s disproportionate response and failure of global powers and institutions to enforce a ceasefire have plunged the world into a crisis

07.10.2024 3

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Grand Strategy | Shift in Europe’s framing of the Ukraine conflict

The growing criticism of the West’s moral plank regarding Ukraine and Gaza appears to have forced a change in the Western narrative

23.09.2024 3

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Grand Strategy | Ukraine’s fighting against time and the clock is ticking

Ukraine is fighting on many fronts: A war with Russia, fighting for global attention, for help from the US and Europe, and to keep up the morale of...

16.09.2024 2

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Grand Strategy | Why Seoul, Delhi need more ambitious ties

India’s growing interest in the Indo-Pacific provide an opportunity for Seoul and Delhi to discover each other’s strategic potential

09.09.2024 2

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The many meanings of Modi’s Ukraine visit

Potential reputational gains for India from even a modest initiative to lessen the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war far outweigh those from any...

25.08.2024 2

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Grand Strategy | Time for a new neighbourhood policy

By reaching out to the Taliban and the Myanmar junta, India has demonstrated an ability to have a non-ideological approach to regional policy.

19.08.2024 10

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Grand Strategy | Interests, not friendship, determine foreign policy

The great power argument is delusional. We are simply past that age in our neighbourhood

11.08.2024 3

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Grand Strategy | Should states have a stake in foreign policy?

The controversy is an opportunity to revisit the debate on the slow but growing influence of the states on India’s foreign relations since the 1990s

29.07.2024 2

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