From Net Security Provider to Preferred Security Partner: India’s Evolving Strategic Narrative
Icon-download Introduction As South Asia and broader Indo-Pacific regions emerge as a theatre of conflict, the understanding of ‘security’ is being redefined. In the last ten years, India has represented itself as a ‘Net Security Provider’, highlighting its increasing capacity and desire to maintain regional equilibrium, especially in the maritime space.1Although evolving geostrategic dynamics and […]
Rare Earth Elements: The Hidden Engines Fuelling the Future
Icon-download Introduction The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.1 – William Crookes Imagine substances that are scarce, unevenly distributed and having an extraction process so […]
China’s Naval Playbook in Myanmar: India’s Bay of Bengal Dilemma
Icon-download Introduction The region of the Bay of Bengal (BoB) has transitioned from being the silent periphery of the Indian Ocean region (IOR) to now rapidly growing as an area of battleground amid the increasing maritime conflict between two Asian powers, India and China.1 Myanmar is also anchored in the centre of this geopolitical move, […]
Brahmaputra at the Crossroads: Upstream Power, Downstream Worries in the India–China Water Conflict
Icon-download Introduction In December 2024, China approved the Construction of the Medong Hydropower Station, a mega dam project on the Yarlung Tsangpo, which becomes the Brahmaputra downstream. With actual capacity of 60GW, annual generation of 300 billion kWh, and an investment touching $167 billion, there’s already a very big dam in China called the Three Gorges […]
UKRAINE WAR- HEADED TO NOWHERE EXCEPT FOR MORE CATASTROPHIC DISASTER
Icon-download Introduction While the new dwarfed deadline of President Trump to President Putin from 50 days to 10-12 days to make peace or face crippling sanctions is making most of the headline’s media today1, this work analyses how the ‘military future’ of the war is heading nowhere except for a greater catastrophic disaster. Changing Profile […]
Mekong Ganga Vs Mekong-Lancang; India and China’s vision for Southeast Asia
Icon-download Introduction The Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia, spanning the length of approximately 4,900 km and covering over six Asian countries.1 It is also nicknamed as the ‘Mother of Water’ as it is a crucial source of livelihood for the populations living around the Mekong basin, across particularly the Southeast Asian […]
India-China Engagement in Africa: A Case Study of Nigeria
Icon-download Introduction India and China have been looking towards African countries since the last two decades now. Nigeria being Africa’s biggest economy has become the focal point of this cross connection between the two. To understand the multilateral relationship, we look at the past of all the three countries and how the current equation came […]
Whole-of-Nation, Whole-of-Sea: A Framework for Integrated Maritime Security
Icon-download Introduction India’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), with a 11,098 kilometres coastline and surrounded by major trading routes moving over 90% of goods by volume and over 74% by value makes maritime security a top national priority.i Increasingly complex threats like piracy, territorial disputes, illegal fishing, maritime terrorism, and cyberattacks now […]
China’s Look South and the Challenge to India’s Regional Primacy
Icon-download Introduction South Asia in the current times, has been witnessing, has witnessed rapid evolution in its political environment leading to changing national priorities and geopolitical alignments. For decades, India has balanced its geopolitical linkages through cultural ties, development assistance and its centrality. These collaboration efforts come with significant good will, a vital necessity when […]
Operation Sindoor: India’s Technological Assertion and the World’s Strategic Response
Icon-download Abstract Op Sindoor represents evolution of India’s doctrine for operations in multi domain environment. Standoff response against multiple terror targets and their ideological bases both in POJK and across international border with great accuracy and precision highlights this technological advancement. This calibrated act marks a new doctrine of punishment for acts of cross border […]
