The South China Sea continues to be among the most disputed maritime zones in the modern international system, a mixture of unresolved claims to sovereignty, dense commercial shipping routes, and strategic priorities on both regional and ex...
The 2025 Trump–Xi dialogue at the APEC Summit in Busan marked a tactical pause in escalating U.S.–China tensions rather than a structural reset. This article analyses the meeting through strategic signalling and game-theoretic perspectives,...
This article examines Belgium’s opposition to the European Union’s proposal to use frozen Russian sovereign assets as collateral for large-scale loans to Ukraine, arguing that the controversy exposes deeper structural tensions in the EU’s e...
The December 2025 visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to New Delhi for the 23rd India–Russia Annual Summit represented a significant moment for diplomacy in the history of modern international relations. The visit took place during th...
Strategic autonomy is the ability of a nation to make independent foreign policy decisions based on national interests without being aligned to a singular bloc. India’s strategic autonomy, deeply rooted in its colonial history and the princ...
Since the onset of the current Israel-Palestine conflict since 7th October 2023, tensions have glared up in the Middle East with current geopolitical shifts such as the regional escalation in multiple fronts like Israel's engagement with Le...
In the 21st century, trade has gone beyond its usual function of generating and protecting financial resources to a great extent. In current world politics, countries always use tariffs, sanctions, export limitations, and regulations not ju...
The landscape of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has undergone a profound structural transformation in recent years. The nature of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is no longer defined only by covert infiltration or cross-b...
This article examines how India’s Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) initiative is transforming defence modernisation by bridging the gap between innovation and operational use. It evaluates iDEX’s progress across AI, UAVs, autonomy,...
The current framework of security has incorporated Earth’s orbit and outer space as areas of militarization in the pursuance of safeguarding national interests. While the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 has prevented the nuclearization of space,...
This paper explores whether India can truly embrace geoeconomics, what Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris call "war by other means", as a central part of its statecraft. In today's world, where open military conflict is often too co...
How many times have we read in our history textbooks that the colonial forces and the conquerors of the post-Renaissance and post-Enlightenment era were responsible for the hurried boundaries and geographical features that have taken a perm...
