The SCO’s Diminishing Usefulness for India
Much like BRICS, the China-dominated Shanghai Cooperation Organisation offers few benefits to New Delhi.
Beyond Shipbuilding: Building a Maritime Industrial Partnership between India and South Korea
This report analyzes the structural asymmetry between the Indian and South Korean shipbuilding industries and the case for converting it into a durable industrial partnership. Indian scale, demand, and demography align with Korean technology, production systems, and institutional depth, and the complementarity is strong enough to support a relationship that goes beyond a commercial transaction.
India’s Central Asia strategy needs less romance, more realism
India cannot match China’s infrastructure spending, Russia’s geographic advantages, Europe’s financial resources or Türkiye’s direct access across the Caspian. Nor does it need to. Sustained political attention should be matched […]
C Raja Mohan writes: A changing Asia demands more from Delhi and Tokyo, together
The Japanese Defence Minister’s Delhi visit should be an occasion to ask how both countries can give their defence partnership much greater operational and technological weight
Appeasement has a bad name in India. Time is ripe to use it in foreign policy
A strategic culture that puts a premium on assertion and displays of strength may have been more counterproductive than beneficial to Indian interests in some cases.
Mecca pact: Interests primary, not alliances
Our reflexive scepticism towards the shifting dynamics in West Asia indicates that certain entrenched habits are still overriding fresh strategic assessments