The 2026 Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi marked an important step in the evolution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue from a primarily consultative forum into a platform increasingly focused on operational cooperation and practical security coordination. While the Quad continues to ...

The Maghreb is often treated as a coherent geopolitical region, yet beneath this label lies a complex landscape shaped by colonial legacies, competing national identities, and unresolved questions of cultural recognition. While post-independence governments across North Africa largely embraced Arab-...

The nature of security has undergone a profound transformation in the twenty-first century. While traditional security frameworks focused primarily on territorial defence, military power, and state sovereignty, contemporary geopolitical realities have expanded the concept of security to include a br...

While nuclear deterrence, as a concept, stands widely credited with preventing large-scale interstate war, this study argues that it has instead entrenched a cycle of persistent mistrust and low-intensity conflict. Drawing upon the deterrence theory, concept of the security dilemma and the framework...

Extended deterrence has long served as the foundation of the United States' alliance architecture in the Indo-Pacific, providing security guarantees to partners such as Japan, South Korea, and Australia while reinforcing regional stability and non-proliferation. However, the strategic environment un...

For much of its modern strategic history, India has viewed security through a predominantly continental lens, focusing on land borders and territorial challenges. Yet India's geography tells a different story. With more than 7,500 kilometres of coastline and a central position in the Indian Ocean, t...