Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai’s Oped ‘The Pacific Islands, an Indian counter to China’ has been published in the Hindustan Times on 25 May 2023.
Ms Pandalai writes on the significance of PM Modi’s trip to the Pacific Islands and why it matters for India’s G20 presidency and undo Pacific Vision.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai's Oped ‘China is raising LAC heat as part of a plan’ has been published in ‘The Hindustan Times’ on December 23, 2022.
Ms Pandalai's Oped on the recent clashes in Tawang identifies the perils of the third country prism in India China ties and argues that in the absence of strategic trust, this constant testing of waters should worry not just India but our friends and partners in the Indo-Pacific.
Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms. Shruti Pandalai’s article “Can India and ASEAN Lean on Each Other Amid ‘Systemic’ China-US Competition?” has been published in ‘The Diplomat’ on 02 July 2022.
New Delhi, viewed by ASEAN as independent from both the US and China, could help build this strategic trust, says Ms Pandalai.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai's article ‘The Indo-Pacific Consensus: The Past, Present and Future of India’s Vision for the Region’ was published in the special issue of 'India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs', Volume 78 Issue 2, June 2022, on the theme of ‘India@75’. The article traces the evolution of the concept of the Indo Pacific in New Delhi's strategic calculus and its pre-eminence as a theatre of geo-strategic and ge-economic opportunity.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai was invited to contribute to an anthology of commentaries, published as part of the publications released as part of Raisina 2022 on 26 April 2022. Her commentary ‘Staying the Course on the China Consensus Requires Reassurances in Post-Ukraine Global Order’ argues ‘that after Ukraine, the fragility of geopolitical perceptions stand exposed. The ability of the coalition of the willing to manage the China challenge and stay focused on the Indo-Pacific theatre has been called into question.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms. Shruti Pandalai’s Oped 'Shoring up the Northeast frontier: How rebranding the discourse on connectivity is imperative to meet the China challenge' has been published in ‘The Times of India’ on 21 March 2021.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai’s essay “Emerging Trends in Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Navigating the ‘India Way’’ was published by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) on 14 December 2021.
The growing strategic relevance of the Indo-Pacific has made India focus its efforts to align with countries on the basis of consensus and cooperation emerging out of common concerns, says Ms Pandalai.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms. Shruti Pandalai contributed a guest column on ‘Blame games amidst a protracted deadlock-No thaw in India China ties’ for the China-India Brief, published by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, on October 26, 2021.
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