These BRICS can’t construct a new world order
For India—neither fully status quoist nor revisionist—a middle path is inherently preferable, a stance not shared by its key BRICS partners.
The new template for dialogue with Pakistan
A clinical minimalism focussed on conflict management appears to define New Delhi’s engagement with Islamabad.
The age of nuclear adventurism
One key lesson many states are drawing from the Russia-Ukraine war is that a nuclear-armed Ukraine would have been better off.
A year after the Hamas strike, insecurity grows
Israel’s disproportionate response and failure of global powers and institutions to enforce a ceasefire have plunged the world into a crisis.
Tensions in the Middle East will Test India’s balancing Act in the region
With a neighbourhood in turmoil, an aggressive China, and pressure of Russia-Ukraine war, the last thing Delhi would like to have is conflict in the Middle East.
Shift in Europe’s framing of the Ukraine conflict
The growing criticism of the West’s moral plank regarding Ukraine and Gaza appears to have forced a change in the Western narrative.