Tag: Europe

This report examines India’s foreign and security policy amid unprecedented geopolitical volatility in 2025. It analyzes India’s navigation of regional turbulence, recalibration of its technology strategy, defense reforms, and potential for cascading domestic reforms amid a deteriorating strategic environment.

Indo-German defense ties are at a strategic inflection point. As Germany embraces Zeitenwende and India pursues Atmanirbhar Bharat, this report argues for shifting from transactional arms sales to deep industrial co-creation. It maps a decade-long strategy (2025–2035) to fuse German engineering with Indian manufacturing scale. Key recommendations include a $50M joint innovation fund, fast-tracked export controls (“Green Lists”), and integrating MSMEs into global supply chains. The goal: a resilient partnership building strategic autonomy for both nations.

This policy brief highlights how the EU and India can turn climate action and the green economy into a strategic alliance. Priorities include electric mobility, renewable energy co-manufacturing, circular economy, digital infrastructure, and heat-water management. Overcoming trade frictions, regulatory differences, and investment gaps is vital to unlock joint innovation, financing, and global standard-setting.

This policy brief argues that India and Europe must elevate their space cooperation into a structured partnership. Converging interests in connectivity, human spaceflight, security, and governance create opportunities for joint projects and norm-setting. Challenges of trust, regulation, and geopolitical alignments remain, requiring institutionalized dialogue and integrated economic, political, and diplomatic frameworks.

This impact essay constitutes a systematic analysis of India’s options within the context of a transforming global security and economic architecture. It scrutinises the alignment between India’s fundamental interests and […]

In Asia, the challenge is harder. Unlike Europe, regional institutions remain underdeveloped, and the gap between Chinese power and its neighbours is vast