Tag: International Security

Together with India’s World Magazine, we host a panel launching C. Raja Mohan’s India and the Rebalancing of Asia. The discussion examines Asia’s shifting geopolitics, China’s rise, uncertainty in U.S. leadership, and India’s evolving strategic role in shaping the Indo-Pacific order.

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.

This essay examines nuclear proliferation risks across East Asia through both overt military programs and latent civilian capabilities.

The panel will discuss the next phase of India–EU relations, assessing the prospects of an FTA, security and defence cooperation, and deeper strategic convergence. It will situate the partnership within shifting global dynamics, highlighting opportunities from shared interests and constraints from geopolitical divergences, domestic politics, and external pressures.

Modern warfare is undergoing metamorphic changes. One such transition is the move beyond the kinetic-centric battlefield to a more integrated Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace (STCB). This report introduces the STCB as a comprehensive framework that can help explain and prepare for the intricate, recursive, and interconnected nature of the social, technological, and cognitive domains in contemporary conflict.

This report examines India-Canada defence-industrial cooperation amid geopolitical pressures and the 2023-24 diplomatic rupture. The report maps existing industrial ties, identifies feasible cooperation areas—maritime security, peacekeeping, cybersecurity, critical minerals—while acknowledging structural constraints from export controls and procurement complexities. It offers actionable recommendations for operationalizing partnership within alliance architectures.