Publication

India’s BRICS Presidency provides an opportune context to strengthen the nested geometry of RIC–SCO–BRICS.

• Prashant Kumar Singh |
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• Issue Brief

The India–Germany defence partnership is increasingly focusing on co-development, co-production, technology transfer and supply-chain resilience.

• Shayesta Nishat Ahmed |
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• IDSA Comments

Türkiye has positioned itself as a critical logistics and energy hub linking Asia, the Gulf and Europe.

• Deepika Saraswat , Abhishek Yadav |
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• Issue Brief

The 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea in favour of the Philippines continues to shape maritime governance and strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific.

• Simran Walia |
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• IDSA Comments

The 2026 US Counterterrorism Strategy elevates drug cartels and ‘violent left-wing extremists’ to centrality, alongside the traditional Islamic threat.

• Khyati Singh |
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• IDSA Comments

The estrangement in US–Russia bilateral nuclear dynamics is often overlooked when discussing the inevitability of the 2026 NPT Review Conference's failure.

• Hina Pandey |
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• IDSA Comments

The Communist Party of China (CPC), under the leadership of Xi Jinping, has been strengthening its ideological framework to increase its capacity for governance. This is crucial to the party system, as it increasingly believes it needs to respond to changes in the global order. Through ideological correction, in the form of Xi Jinping Thought, the party leadership believes it can better navigate a world in transition and emerge victorious. In other words, as the leadership theorises about the global order, elite politics under Xi Jinping is transforming. Xi is strengthening governance within both the party and state to respond to the global security order. This impacts elite politics as it navigates the changes within the Chinese political system.

• M.S. Prathibha |
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• Monograph

Myanmar's outreach to India reflects a search for strategic diversification rather than a departure from its China–Russia axis.

• Om Prakash Das |
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• Issue Brief

This monograph examines the development trajectory of Northeast India since Independence, arguing that the region's economic stagnation stems from deep structural and historical constraints rather than inadequate policy support or public expenditure. It traces how colonial extraction, Partition-induced isolation, and postcolonial planning fostered dependence on Union government transfers through mechanisms such as Article 275(1), Special Category Status, and Finance Commission grants. Adopting a political economy perspective, it analyses how restrictive land systems, labour market limitations, scarce capital, weak entrepreneurship, and limited cross-border cooperation have hindered diversification and industrialisation.

• Pushpita Das |
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• Monograph

As regional tensions persist, GCC–Iran relations are entering a period of heightened uncertainty and strategic recalibration.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan |
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• West Asia War Analyses