Strategic Analysis

India’s Maritime Revival: ‘Character of the People’ And the Sea Power of a Nation

Alfred Thayer Mahan identified six conditions of sea power, of which five have been extensively applied to India’s naval rise. The sixth, ‘character of the people’, remains largely absent from...

Nimisha Kesarwani |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s Act East Policy: A Diplomatic Tool for Social Integration and National Security

The success of foreign policy depends upon domestic conditions. India’s Act East Policy which travels through the North East Region, marked by heterogeneity in terms of geography, demography, culture, possibilities,...

Deepika Singh |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Between Securitisation and Humanitarian Narrative: Rohingya Refugees in Indian Media Discourse

This article examines how four Indian English-language news platforms represented Rohingya refugees between 2012 and 2021. It analyses 129 written online news items through qualitative content analysis and descriptive counts....

Zahid Sultan |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Sovereignty by Design: Assessing the Strategic Transformation of India’s Defence Industrial Base (DIB) Towards a G3 Order

This article examines India’s Defence Industrial Base (DIB), tracing its shift from post-independence State monopolies to a contemporary ‘Sovereignty by Design’ framework. Analysing the emerging Public–Private–Foreign Consortium structure, the study...

Sujit Thakur |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s Balancing Act: Neutrality, Diplomacy, and Humanitarian Aid in the Korean War

The Korean War (1950–1953) stands as one of the earliest and most defining conflicts of the Cold War period, shaped by the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the...

Pakistan Between Fire and Diplomacy: The West Asian War and the Search for Negotiated De-Escalation

The current war in West Asia, often described in international reporting as the Middle East war, has moved beyond a single-front confrontation and become a crisis of regional order. What...

Ghulam Shabbir |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Operation Sindoor: 88 Hours That Redefined Deterrence

The Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 2025 and the Indian Army’s subsequent action were a matter of great public and strategic debate. The focus was on how the operation was...

Ravi Shankar Raj |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

For a subcontinent that still reels from the aftershocks of an excruciating Partition, the very mention of the term is not only evocative of pain but also stirs a sense...

Priyanka Singh |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

The Formation of Japan-ROK Security Relations: Meeting the Evolving Cold War Challenge

There is often a tendency in modern political analysis, especially in the non-specialised academic domain, to read current political trends into the past, with the implication that thoroughly contemporary rivalries...

Arnab Dasgupta |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar

Since the coup in 2021, Myanmar (formerly Burma) has been embroiled in civil strife. The political gains, if at all it was, made in the last decade due to a...

Guidelines for an Oil Policy

Energy resources, and particularly oil, have become a major factor in the strategic debate all over the world. In this context, an oil policy for India assumes crucial significance, especially...

S. N. Ghosh |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Soviet Thinking on Asian Collective Security

The concept of a collective security system for Asia seems to have been firmly placed on the foreign policy agenda of the Soviet Government. Indeed, it has passed in the...

Bhabani Sen Gupta |
July-August 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s De-Risking Paradox: The Political Economy of Strategic Dependence on China

India is pursuing strategic de-risking as a response to the profound strategic vulnerabilities arising from its relationship with China, particularly amid mounting geopolitical tensions. Employing a quantitative analysis of recent...

Bintul Islam , Humaira Iqbal , Bashir Ahmad Dar |
May-June 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s Counter-Radicalisation and Deradicalisation Strategy: Challenges and Future Directions

Radicalisation and violent extremism constitute critical asymmetric threats undermining India’s national security and social fabric. Despite achieving a 63 per cent reduction in extremism-related incidents between 2022 and 2023, India...

Mahesh A. Tripathi , Chandra Uday Singh |
May-June 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India in the Arctic: Strategic Significance of Cooperation with Russia

This article investigates the strategic direction of India’s Arctic policy, highlighting the growing relevance of the region for long-term foreign policy planning. The research explores how the erosion of the...

Mall Roads and the Spatial Embodiment of Colonial Exclusivity

The Mall Road, inspired by London promenades, was a strategically designed colonial space linking European residential quarters within cantonments. More than a thoroughfare, it embodied imperial ideals of order, leisure,...

Trump’s Board of Peace: Multilateralism and India’s Strategic Choices

In January 2026, the United States took two decisions that together signal a turning point in the evolution of post-World War global governance. The first was the leaked release of...

Rajeesh Kumar |
May-June 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Where is the ‘Northeast’ in India’s ‘Act East Policy’?

In reviewing India’s ambitious Act East Policy (formerly the Look East Policy), it appears that the Northeast region’s agenda is being sidelined in policy formulation. The most important driver of...

Anmol Mukhia |
May-June 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India–Russia Engagement in the Arctic: Navigating Emerging Geopolitical Dynamics

The Arctic is no longer a peripheral frontier. Climate-induced ice melt has unlocked vast hydrocarbon reserves, estimated at 13 per cent of undiscovered global oil and 30 per cent of...

How Mobs and Collective Frenzy Converge to Shape the Politics of Revenge in Nepal

On 9 September 2025, frenzied mobs set on fire private residences and government quarters of Nepal’s senior mainstream political leaders. Properties and goods from their houses were stolen. Ministry buildings...