India needs to convert longstanding partnerships into electoral support, particularly in Africa, to secure a non-permanent seat on the UNSC for the 2028–29 term.
The war in Ukraine appears to have accelerated Russia's long-standing "Pivot to Asia," reshaping Moscow's geopolitical orientation. This monograph, framed within a balance-of-power lens, examines the drivers, scope and durability of this pivot through Russia's deepening but asymmetric partnership with China, its rejection of the Indo-Pacific construct and its warming ties with Pakistan. For India, these emerging dynamics often complicate the traditional "special and privileged" partnership with Russia, as Moscow's rift with the West intersects with New Delhi's own multi-alignment with the Western countries. The monograph concludes that India-Russia ties retain independent strategic value, anchored to new recalibrations and realistic expectations.
This study explores the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity in India-China border management, emphasising the shift from Traditional Security Studies (TSS) to Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTSS). It critically examines how AI-driven systems, like CIBMS, reshape national defence, raising concerns about surveillance overreach, algorithmic bias, and democratic accountability. Using securitisation theory and surveillance capitalism, the study highlights how digital technologies serve as instruments of power, often undermining civil liberties. The paper calls for a hybrid security paradigm that integrates strategic deterrence with ethical governance, ensuring responsible AI deployment in geopolitically sensitive regions.
Can the Indo-Pacific remain strategically coherent if India is no longer central to it, and does the shift point to something deeper than a bureaucratic housekeeping exercise?
भारत के साथ म्यांमार की बढ़ती नज़दीकी का मतलब यह नहीं है कि वह चीन और रूस से दूर जा रहा है। बल्कि वह अपने हितों के लिए अधिक विकल्प और रणनीतिक संतुलन बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा है।
