Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s September 2024 visit to Brunei reaffirms that the Sultanate is an essential part of India’s Act East Policy.

• Published: September 25, 2024
• Issue Brief

The qualitative and quantitative advances in the Chinese nuclear arsenal are creating a huge gap between Indian and Chinese nuclear numbers.

• Published: September 13, 2024
• Issue Brief

The Russia–Ukraine war has not only exacerbated already broken relations between the US and Russia but has emerged as a major hindrance to the conduct of the arms control talks.

• Published: April 18, 2024
• IDSA Comments

With the last surviving arms control treaty, the 2010 New START, under suspension with no sign of a successor treaty, the post-Cold War nuclear order is under stress.

• Published: January 23, 2024
• IDSA Comments

Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Niranjan C. Oak’s chapter ‘India’s Evolving Policy Towards the Quad: Implication for Security’ has been published in the book Grace Glory and Gaffe: India’s Defence and Security @75, edited by Uttara Sahasrbddhe and Akshay Ranade.

• Published: 31 October, 2023

Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Niranjan Oak’s chapter titled ‘India's Evolving Policy towards the Quad" has been published in the book ‘Grace, Glory and Gaffe: India's Defence and Security@75’, edited by Dr Uttara Sahasrabuddhe and Mr Akshay Ranade.

The book is published by the Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS) and Kabdwal Book International.

• Published: 13 September, 2023

Russia’s decision to suspend participation in the New START complicates efforts to revive arms control negotiations.

• Published: March 02, 2023
• IDSA Comments

The US–China balloon row shows that the significance of methods like balloon surveillance has not reduced in the era of high-tech satellites and drones.

• Published: February 22, 2023
• IDSA Comments

If the US and Russia fail to negotiate a successor agreement to New START, there is the possibility of an unrestricted arms race with detrimental implications.

• Published: September 28, 2022
• IDSA Comments

Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Niranjan Oak’s article ‘India-Australia Relations amid Chinese Shadow over Island Neighbourhood’ has been published in ‘Ytharth’, a bi-monthly magazine, Vol I/ Issue I/ April-May 2022.

It must be understood that climate change is the most potent threat to the very existence of the island nations, and China is the biggest carbon emitter in the world. Thus, Chinese outreach to the islands of the Indo-Pacific has been an extension of Beijing’s nefarious geopolitical design against India and Australia rather than partner with the island nations to cater for their developmental needs, says Mr. Oak.

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• Published: 30 June, 2022