QUAD’s Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) in the Indian Ocean Region: Challenges and Opportunities
Icon-download Introduction Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) refers to the requirement of situational awareness at sea, that allows all maritime players to be aware of each other’s positions and intentions of each other in all three dimensions — on, over, and below the sea. MDA is becoming more and more necessary for the efficient and safe […]
India’s Strategic Considerations on NATO’s Deepening Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Icon-download Introduction The Indo-Pacific region has become a focal point of global strategic competition, with various international actors vying for influence and stability. With the Russia-Ukraine war continuing into its third year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has taken steps to further its ties with some of its Indo-Pacific partners, Japan, South Korea, Australia […]
Revisiting Juche and Songun: Why Nuclear matters for North Korea?
Icon-download Introduction North Korea has challenged traditional security threats by emerging as a rogue state capable of testing and launching nuclear missiles. The threat landscape of North East Asia is predominantly ruled by tackling North Korea’s nuclear proliferation and bring stability and peace to the Korean peninsula. North Korea’s interest for nuclear science and technology […]
Tri-lateral Rivalry of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
Icon-download Introduction The world has seen peace for almost eight decades now. Some give credit to mature interconnected relations among countries while some say it is because of nuclear weapons. While we cannot certainly say why there is no third world war yet, nuclear weapons certainly deserve some credit for that. Nina Tannenwald called it […]
A Gamble in the Waters: Implications of the Russia-Myanmar Naval Exercise for India
Icon-download Introduction There have been reports of the Russian Federation[1] diversifying its partnerships in the Bay of Bengal. In the November of 2023, Russia conducted its first Russia-Myanmar naval exercise in the modern history[1], in the Andaman Sea, which was followed by the Russian warships docking at the Chittagong Port, amidst the chaos surrounding the […]
India’s Strategic Role in the Western Indian Ocean: Convergence of Interest with the Littoral Nations
Icon-download Introduction The Indian Ocean has emerged as a critical juncture for trade, commerce, and transit routes for energy from West Asia. The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), which is located at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Australia, is home to several littoral nations and middle-power countries including countries in Africa, some small island countries […]
India-Russia Relations: Solidarity on a Tight Rope
Icon-download Introduction Indian Government over the last decade has traditionally started its term with an impact, by having bilateral summits with neighbouring countries giving impetus to India’s Act East Policy. However, in his third term, the Indian Prime Minister has taken a strategic shift from addressing regional impression to global influence by visiting Russian President […]
Chinese Inroads in East Africa
Icon-download Introduction In East Africa, geopolitics is becoming increasingly complex with emerging interests and ideals of foreign nations, non-state actors and private players. The Chinese footprints stretch back to the early 15th century when sailor Zheng He made expeditionary trips to the continent’s eastern shores between 1413-19.[1] In contemporary times, formal ties were forged in […]
African Union in G20 & Opportunities for India
Icon-download Introduction The African Union (AU) is a central body which is made up of 55 member states of Africa. It was made up from Organisation of African Unity (OAU, 1963-1999) and launched in 2002. The aim of OAU was to eradicate the colonial remnants and apartheid from Africa. The relaunch of pan-African organization was […]
Balanced Atmanirbharta for Strategic Autonomy
Icon-download Background Indigenisation is the capability of developing and producing any defence equipment within the country for the dual purpose of achieving self-reliance and reducing imports. As per Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report released last year, the total global military expenditure of the world in 2023 was pegged at 2,240 billion USD, surpassing […]
