The deep sea is emerging as a new frontier in the global struggle for critical minerals, where resource security, technological ambition, and geopolitical power converge. The article examines the contest between China and the United States ...
In a quest to conserve critical materials and foster long-term solutions to ensure an orderly energy transition, governments all over the world are adopting a forward-thinking approach and foresight to avoid potential delays to the energy t...
As global economic networks become instruments of geopolitical competition, India faces the challenge of protecting its strategic autonomy without withdrawing from global interdependence. In this commentary, Saksham Shukla examines India’s ...
China’s growing maritime presence in the Indian Ocean is raising new questions about the evolution of regional maritime competition and India’s security strategy. Drawing parallels with Beijing’s assertive approach in the South China Sea, t...
The 2026 Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi marked an important step in the evolution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue from a primarily consultative forum into a platform increasingly focused on operational cooperation and p...
The Maghreb is often treated as a coherent geopolitical region, yet beneath this label lies a complex landscape shaped by colonial legacies, competing national identities, and unresolved questions of cultural recognition. While post-indepen...
Semiconductors have emerged as one of the most strategically significant technologies of the twenty-first century, underpinning everything from artificial intelligence and advanced military systems to telecommunications, electric vehicles, ...
India’s assumption of the BRICS 2026 chairmanship comes at a critical geopolitical moment marked by intensifying U.S.–China rivalry, expanding BRICS+ membership, and growing demands for a more multipolar international order. While the platf...
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region occupies a central position within contemporary global supply chains, particularly in sectors such as cotton, textiles, and polysilicon production. As international scrutiny over alleged human rights vi...
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technological innovation. It has become a central concern in national security debates. The concept of securitization, developed by Barry Buzan, Ole Waever, and Jaap de Wilde within the Copenhagen...
The Arctic, commonly understood as the region north of the Arctic Circle (66° 34? N), has long existed in global imagination as a distant, frozen, and largely inaccessible space. For most of modern history, it was not a centre of economic o...
The Strait of Hormuz constitutes a critical chokepoint in the global energy architecture, rendering India’s energy security structurally vulnerable to disruptions arising from regional instability and maritime insecurity. With a significant...
