Europe’s security architecture is undergoing a profound transformation amid the convergence of Russian aggression, growing hybrid threats, and the gradual retrenchment of the United States from its traditional security commitments in Europe...
East Asia’s strategic landscape is marked by rapid economic growth and complex security rivalries, primarily shaped by the U.S.–China competition. This article examines how evolving regional frameworks and trilateral partnerships such as th...
Rare earth minerals are a group of 17 metallic elements in the periodic table made up of scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides. Although the name suggests ‘rare’ minerals, they are abundant in the earth’s crust. However, they are often fou...
The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean on earth, covering about 20 per cent of the earth's water surface. It expands to South Asia in the north, Africa and Arabia in the west, South East Asia and Australia in the east, and Antarctica t...
On November 23rd, the U.S.Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai and the Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal co-chaired the 12th ministerial meeting of the revived India-U.S Trade Policy Forum (TPF).
The world today is all about a ‘network of networks’ whether through land, sea or air and most countries are looking for better ways of communication and interconnectedness. The Indo-Pacific is one such way of interconnectedness and here, t...
In the 2019 fiscal year, India's merchandise exports to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) grew at a compound annual growth rate of about 5 percent to reach a total of $103 billion. Its imports from the region also increased...
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is an island country located between Oceania and Southeast Asia. It occupies the eastern part of the Timor Island which is the largest and the easternmost island in the Lesser Sunda Archipelago. The we...
The one of its kind virtual summit meeting between Prime Ministers of India and Australia - Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison is going to take place on June 4th and the agenda for the meeting is already long. Given the post-Covid 19 dynamics...
The once politically peaceful, geographically isolated and sea-locked Pacific region is becoming a pawn in the game of power politics among traditional and regional powers over the past years. The assertive and bold Chinese behaviour in the...
Over the past two decades, China has widened and deepened its economic and diplomatic footprint in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). This unprecedented Chinese power posturing in the Blue Pacific region has caused trepidation in the corr...
In the Indian foreign policy and strategic discourse, island nations have found a special reference. Those island nations, which lie close to the strategic sea lanes or are close to mainland, have important strategic and commercial signific...
