The ‘Strategic Autonomy’ debate
Foreign minister, S Jaishankar in his book The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World, has put forward an understanding of the official mindset of India amid the anarchy and uncertainty that has been...
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Afghanistan’s Woes Will Haunt America
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The American decision to leave Afghanistan to lessen the burden on the domestic economy, protect US troops, boost the nation’s security, and put an end to the “Forever War” in the Middle East...
Taiwan and the prospects of reunification: Will Taiwan live under the ‘One China’ Principle?
China and Taiwan are one of the nations which had to face divisions post world war, during the cold war. Germany and Korea were divided by the victors in the aftermath of World War...
Rejig Japan: A politico-economic conundrum
Japan is going through the phase of turmoil in two fronts; political and economic. But unfortunately it is clubbed with continuous spike in regional tensions in East Asian sphere among its three arch competitors...
Indo-Pacific conundrum, what Joe Biden is up to?
In a joint statement, US President Joe Biden, UK PM Boris Johnson and the latter’s Australian counterpart Scott Morrison announced on Sept 16, 2021, that Australia-UK-US was forming a security alliance, nicknamed AUKUS, with...
Advent of the Hypersonic Missiles: Extremely dangerous for strategic stability?
We live in the Anthropocene and the missile age wherein countries with technological edge are vying with each other to have projectiles that are sleek, fatal and faster to hit targets as far as possible. This...
Blinken asks Pakistan to ‘line up’ in pressuring Taliban
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Monday on Pakistan to deny legitimacy to the Taliban unless they meet international demands, acknowledging concerns that Islamabad has supported militants from Afghanistan. Testifying before Congress on...
India-France relationship beyond Rafale deal: A cooperation fostering Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Strategic Development
A countries’ foreign policy considerations are guided by the concept that there is no such thing as a permanent enemy or friend, only permanent interests that need to be safeguarded at all times. Then,...
China: the next superpower in the ‘Graveyard of Empires’
Economic rather than ideological nature is the defining feature of Chinese engagement The recent political upheaval in Afghanistan has brought about a huge shift in the geopolitical realities of the region and the world...
How Current Events in Afghanistan provide India an opportunity to focus on its maritime power
With the new upturns in Afghanistan, the paradoxes in India’s strategic culture are being exposed. In this discourse, our civilisational history has become so overbearing that India has been consistently ignoring its geography- forgetting...
