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This article advances an analysis of India’s strategic rebalancing with Russia, and argues that India’s recalibration reflects adaptive restructuring driven by layered interdependencies. It examines the institutional foundations of the relationship and the recent 23rd India–Russia Annual Summit as a moment of strategic signalling, reaffirming continuity in turbulent times. Bilateral dynamics are assessed in terms of the legacy military partnership as well as evolving trade patterns, logistics, and connectivity initiatives. The analysis then situates India–Russia ties within triangular configurations with the USA and China, and thereafter in the global-systemic dynamics, to arrive at policy considerations and the drivers of rebalancing.

• Manish, Aditi Saxena |
• March-April 2026 |
• Strategic Analysis

The article aims to analyse the developments and challenges in the India– US defence cooperation in the face of the ongoing decay of the nuclear order. While the defence cooperation has grown manifold, it is pertinent to understand the pathways in which India and the US can cooperate towards building a stable nuclear order. The effort should be to minimise the risk of any accidental nuclear war in the wake of heightened tensions and heated conventional warfare in the current geopolitical landscape, incorporating missile forces, weapons of mass destruction, tactical nuclear weapons, and others. The article begins with an outline of the India–US defence cooperation followed by an understanding of the Indian stance on disarmament and nuclear treaties; the evolution of the India–US nuclear cooperation; an overview of the changing global nuclear order and its impact on the conventional warfare; the perceptions of India and the US on nuclear stability; prospects and challenges in defence cooperation against threats to nuclear stability; and the way forward to cooperate on building deterrence and nuclear stability.

• Manish, Aditi Saxena |
• January-March 2025 |
• Journal of Defence Studies