The Clean Energy Race in South Asia: India, China, and the Boundaries of Delivery
As India and China compete to power South Asia’s energy transition, the decisive factor is not who has more capital. It is who can deliver. This report argues that the two countries’ delivery models, not their resources, explain the diverging outcomes across Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. India’s approach is relationship-intensive and conditional, built on sovereign Lines of Credit negotiated case by case. China’s is capital-intensive and vertically integrated, with state-owned enterprises controlling financing, engineering, and equipment supply from start to finish.
Rules-Based International Order: India’s Contemporary Indo-Pacific Maritime Enigma
India faces a difficult maritime challenge as the rules-based international order becomes less predictable. New Delhi is building closer ties with Indo-Pacific middle powers to protect shipping routes, energy security […]
Beyond US and China, India and others are building a ‘G Minus Two’ for Indo-Pacific
Every major Asian nation, including India and the three countries Modi is visiting this week, knows that Chinese power in Asia and the Indo-Pacific is a reality that must be […]
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Visit to India: Assessing Outcomes and the Future of India-Japan Ties
This roundtable will examine the outcomes of the visit and their implications for India-Japan relations. It will explore opportunities and challenges in strategic, economic, technological, and people-to-people cooperation, while assessing how both countries can deepen collaboration, advance shared priorities, and strengthen their Special Strategic and Global Partnership in the Indo-Pacific.
After the Crisis: Three Futures for India and Pakistan
This is the closing report in the series, and it turns from what has happened to what comes next. It asks where the India-Pakistan relationship is heading a year after the April-May 2025 crisis, now that the relationship has been stripped to almost nothing, with no trade, a suspended Indus Waters Treaty, downgraded missions, and severed people-to-people ties.
Crisis as Catalyst: Pakistan’s Internal Political Transformation, 2025–2026
This report is the second in the series and shifts from hardware to power. It examines how the April–May 2025 crisis with India catalyzed the Pakistan Army’s consolidation of domestic control under Asim Munir. Tracking developments chronologically across three fronts- military, political, and judicial- it argues that the crisis let Munir move from expanding power within Pakistan’s hybrid system to changing the system itself.