Middle Power Pact: Delhi’s Seoul Bridge | India-Korea Strategic Dialogue | 17-19 December 2025
This policy brief draws from the latest India-Korea Strategic Dialogue, where participants developed recommendations for Indian and Korean policymakers to strengthen bilateral ties. These recommendations centre on two key areas: addressing shared geopolitical challenges and harnessing mutually beneficial technologies. The author provides context by outlining India and Korea’s current strategies on each issue, supported by […]
Oil & Diaspora In A New Emerging West Asia Order
A review of the impact of the transformative India-UAE relationship (2015-2026) on New Delhi’s ties, the balance and risks, in the evolving situation in West Asia Few bilateral relationships in India’s foreign policy portfolio have been re-engineered as deliberately, or as rapidly, as the one with United Arab Emirates. A decade ago, this relationship was […]
The New Dawn: From Tokyo Vision 2025 to New Delhi Summit 2026
Prime Minister Takaichi’s visit to India in July 2026 was a landmark for several reasons. This was her first official visit to India after becoming the Prime Minister of Japan. The focus of the India-Japan Annual Summit is to elevate the Special Strategic and Global Partnership. Building on the success of the 15th edition of […]
India-Vietnam Relations: A Strategic Gateway to ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific
Abstract Following the political transition in Vietnam, and the recent visit of the Vietnamese President To Lam to India and the elevation of bilateral ties to an ‘Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’, India has a significant strategic opportunity to transform its partnership with Vietnam into a broader Indo-Pacific balancing mechanism. The article highlights the recent political […]
Maritime Insurance Gap: Why India Needs Its Own P&I Club
A maritime insurance pool depends on a critical element: third-party liability. This third-party liability is provided by the mechanism of the Professional and Indemnity Club (P&I Club). People at the policy level and the general public often do not understand this difference. Port owners, cargo owners, and countries are not concerned with the risks a […]
The Big Bash: Takeaways from the Third India-Australia Summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Australia for the third India–Australia Summit delivered a raft of announcements across defence, energy, trade and technology. Yet the real story lies not in the number of agreements signed, but in what they reveal about the trajectory of the relationship. For years, India and Australia have spoken of […]
Weaponising Openness: OSINT Across Conventional, Grey Zone and Cognitive Operations
Introduction The term Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is used (and abused) widely today. Scores of individuals profess to be ‘OSINT experts’ on social media, and post a combination of technical and geo-located information on certain military platforms or formations along with their subjective opinion. Analyses by ‘OSINT communities’ on the Web frequently enter policy- and decision-making […]
From WTO to FTAs: India’s Evolving Trade Priorities Amid Institutional Breakdown and Geopolitical Fragmentation
Abstract Over the past three decades, India’s engagement with the global trading order has experienced a structural transformation. Following the economic liberalisation of July 1991 and India’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 1 January 1995, the trade-to-GDP ratio rose from approximately 15 per cent in 1990 to 27 per cent by 2000, […]
Nepal’s Electoral Revolution in a South Asian Mirror
Nepal’s Electoral Revolution in a South Asian Mirror Abstract In March 2026, Nepal’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) achieved a historic electoral victory, capturing 182 of 275 seats in the parliamentary elections held after the September 2025 Gen Z uprising. The youth-led movement ousted Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s government, resulted in 76 deaths, and led […]
LNG supply and infra a deep worry for India
Regardless of how the stop-start-stop war proceeds, the grim reality is that India will feel the effects of the US-Iran war for a long time — in a worsening of the asymmetric supply-demand matrix for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Other than the ones in US, the world’s six largest sets of LNG facilities are in […]