Strategic Analysis

Shifting Alignments in the Himalayas: The China, Nepal, Bhutan and India Dynamics

China’s expanding engagement has reconfigured established patterns of regional interaction that historically reflected India’s predominant influence, without necessarily constituting a formalised structure of hierarchical control. This research paper analyses China’s...

Sachin Jaggi |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

The Eurasian Logic of Ostpolitik: Testing the Limits of Normative Geoeconomics

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...

Athanasios Grammenos |
January-February 2026 |
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Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Border Management: Reconfiguring Non‑Traditional Threat Responses in the India-China Context Satish IrungbamORCID Icon

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...

Satish Irungbam |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Security and Sustainability: India’s Response to China’s Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the Southwest Indian Ocean

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing threatens marine ecosystems in regions with fragmented regulation and limited enforcement. In the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO) region, distant-water fishing intersects with questions of...

Beyond Water Allocation: Rethinking the Indus Waters Treaty at a Critical Juncture

This Commentary advances three interconnected claims. First, it establishes that the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has reached a critical juncture shaped by the convergence of ecological stress, escalating security tensions,...

Minakshi Koch |
January-February 2026 |
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Destruction Beyond the Battlefield: The Ecological Toll of War

The prioritisation of military objectives by governments can always bring risks in terms of causing permanent damage to sources of water, farmlands, and populations. The dilemma in the case has...

Madhuri , Waseem Ahmad |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Transforming Military Logistics in India: The Strategic Impact of National Logistics Policy and GatiShakti Yojna

Logistics plays a critical role in operational readiness of National Militaries. The National Logistics Policy (NLP) 2022 and the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) contribute holistically in creating an...

Mukesh Chadha |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Entanglements in World Politics, Peter J. Katzenstein, Shaftesbury Road, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press

If the first quarter of the twenty-first century has taught strategists anything, it is that our models are broken. The Russo-Ukrainian War was not supposed to devolve into a networked...

Khyati Singh |
January-February 2026 |
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The China–Russia Relationship: The Dance of the Dragon and the Bear

As part of the Global Power Shift series of Springer, Robert Hamilton’s The China–Russia Relationship: The Dance of the Dragon and the Bear provides a current and fact-based analysis of...

Rajinder Singh |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Iran as a Regional Power: Flexibility and Constraints

Few states have achieved such rapid prominence from a position of relative obscurity as has Iran in recent years. This dramatic upsurge in Iran’s international role has resulted from conscious...

Onkar Marwah |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

Peaceful Nuclear Explosions

It is important to assess the promise of Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNEs) which has been highly exaggerated by some, and unduly underplayed by others. Despite two decades of effort, the...

Peaceful Nuclear Explosions

It is important to assess the promise of Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNEs) which has been highly exaggerated by some, and unduly underplayed by others. Despite two decades of effort, the...

T. T. Poulose , C. Raja Mohan |
January-February 2026 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s Defence Diplomacy as Soft Power Instrument Towards Southeast Asia

G.V.C. Naidu |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis

Global Order in COVID-19 Contagion: A Literary and Philosophical Interpretation

This article interprets the COVID-19 pandemic as a profound existential event that exposed the moral, political, and structural fragilities of the global order. Drawing on existentialist philosophy—Sartre’s ontology of freedom,...

Swati Pal |
November-December 2025 |
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Ethnocratic Statecraft and Conflict: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

An ethno-conflict erupted in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh in 1975 which lasted for more than two decades. It came to a formal end when the Bangladesh government...

Bhumitra Chakma |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis

Material and Ideational Factors Behind Conceptualisation of the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor

In recent years, partnerships with non-conventional allies have emerged as the norm in the world order, amid dynamic global polarity and unanticipated challenges. The India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) announced...

Priyanshi Agrawal |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis

Minilateralism for Reinforcing ASEAN Centrality?: The Case of Intra-Regional Mechanisms in the Mekong Region

This paper examines how ASEAN-led minilateralism in the Mekong subregion contributes to reinforcing ASEAN centrality amid great power competition, particularly between the US and China. Some intra-regional initiatives such as...

Ha Hai Hoang |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis

Soft Power Through Education: Realist Regional Dynamics in Asia

This paper examines education as a realist tool for soft power in West and East Asia, responding to Jane Knight’s call for regionalisation research. Challenging her liberal vision of knowledge...

Char Leung |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis

Education as ‘Soft Power’: Mapping the Role of Education in Strengthening India’s Ties with Afghanistan

Hilal Ramzan , Javid Ahmad Ahanger |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis

Liberal International Order: Bursting at the Seams

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991, US political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his book The End of History and the Last Man (Citation1992) triumphantly declared that...

Adil Rasheed |
November-December 2025 |
Strategic Analysis