The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD), composed of India, the United States, Japan, and Australia, has emerged as a key forum in the Indo-Pacific’s evolving strategic architecture. Initially a loose coalition responding to humanitarian...
This paper examines the emerging dynamics of trilateral cooperation between China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in South Asia, exploring its potential to reshape the region’s geopolitical balance and challenge India’s traditional hegemony. By a...
In the realm of international relations, two prominent neighbouring nations have found themselves entangled in the intricate dynamics of the Prisoner's Dilemma. A consequential event took place in Goa as the Foreign Ministers from these nat...
The rising debt levels in South Asian countries are concerning and can trigger a debt crisis in the region. The countries Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar are facing sovereign debt crises. Sri Lanka is a country that had faced d...
The suspicions of Hambantota port as a site of a potential threat from China were tested when a Chinese survey vessel was supposed to dock at the port. Yuan Wang 5, a research vessel with missile and satellite tracking capabilities, was due...
One of the world’s most geographically separated nations, the Maldives, is becoming more important and playing an essential role in the current geopolitical developments. The Indian Ocean’s centrally placed island republic, which is made up...
India and China share 3,488 kilometers of land border covering four states and one union territory of India. It is a high-altitude terrain with harsh climatic conditions leading to inadequate development of infrastructure. The two countries...
With a freshly adopted federal system incorporated in its 2015 constitution, Nepal is now positioned for a peaceful future after decades of political upheaval. After a decade of Maoist insurrection, the toppling of the monarchy, and a subse...
Initially, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was the group of the six Eurasian countries that expanded with the inclusion of India and Pakistan in 2017. Constituted to resolve border disputes between the participant states, the or...
Since the early months of 2020, the international community has been battling a viral outbreak, which has quickly grown into a widespread pandemic. The advent of coronavirus has virtually thrown away the adventure of globalization and has b...
Amid the escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific region stemming from China’s display of military muscle and expansionist design, the spectre of a new cold war with the US and China as the two major combatants is drifting the world to a maj...
The Indo-Pacific region that marks the importance of the confluence of two huge oceans viz. the Indian and Pacific Oceans, has become the key hotspot globally, even surpassing the middle east region. It has also turned out to be one of the ...
