The unabated rise of china and its uncontrolled muscle flexing around its periphery is disliked by many of its neighbors. India and Vietnam are the two countries that shares borders with China also share the frustration created by it at the...
During the COVID-19 times it has been increasingly debated that whether it will bring about a tectonic change in the global order or this biomedical (or pandemic) tragedy would impede the rise of China. If one evaluates the developments in ...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
On 12 March 2021, the Quad group conducted its first-ever virtual Quad leadership summit which became an important milestone in broadening its focus. The four nations 'quad' has issued a joint statement titled- 'The spirit of the quad' for ...
The question of ASEAN centrality and its relevance in the international security as well as addressing regional security concerns has been heavily highlighted. ASEAN has accepted that as the Indo-Pacific is a new formation, it needs to be g...
The Pacific region is once again becoming the epicentre of realpolitik amongst great powers, where both regional and extra-regional powers are competing to expand their sphere of influence. In recent years, China has deliberately, methodica...
China’s maritime assertiveness is increasingly extending beyond conventional naval power, relying on coast guard operations, maritime militia, research vessels, commercial connectivity and information activities to shape the maritime enviro...
The Eastern Mediterranean is emerging as a critical arena of geopolitical competition where maritime disputes, technological innovation, and strategic alignments increasingly intersect. Turkey’s Blue Homeland doctrine, expanding drone diplo...
India’s security environment is shaped by the simultaneous pressures of continental threats and maritime competition, requiring a strategic balance between territorial defence, regional diplomacy, and power projection. Historical conflicts ...
The Western Indian Ocean has emerged as a critical theatre of geopolitical contestation, driven by intensifying competition among regional and extra-regional powers. With China’s expanding maritime footprint, Iran’s strategic assertiveness,...
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 Indo-Pacific has emerged as the central theatre of contemporary geopolitics, linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans and encompassing some of the world’s most economically dynamic and strategically significant states. This article examine...
