Maritime Security and Processes in India: A Need for Review/Revamping India’s maritime sector is central to the country’s security and economic well-being, given its vast coastline and strategic position. India’s approach to maritime security has evolved in response to new... P.S.S. Uday Kiran | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
Legitimising Proactivity: Japan’s Use of the FOIP in Defence Export Policy Japan’s security policy has transitioned through three distinct phases: passive, active and now proactive. Initially, Japan adhered to a defensive stance, avoiding active engagement beyond its borders. In the active... Shahana Thankachan | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
Dual-Use Satellites and Strategic Ambiguity: Toward Robust Legal and Normative Frameworks The increasing inability to distinguish between civilian and military uses of satellite systems has created a governance gap that undermines crisis stability and confidence-building measures. Dual-use satellites blur the line... Akanksha Kalyan | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact and India’s Evolving Engagement in West Asia The Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA), signed on September 17,2025, is a dramatic development amidst a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape in West and South Asia. Pakistan’s strategic elite has... Deepika Saraswat | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
India in SCO: India’s Diplomatic Balancing in a Constrained Multilateral Order Given the continuing expansion of India’s multilateral experiments and engagements, now is an opportune time to ponder over how India reconciles its cosmopolitan moral principles with strategic pragmatism in multilateral... Manish , Gayatri Rajpurohit | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
Shifting Dynamics: The Fraying Pakistan-Taliban Ties and the Contest for Strategic Influence In a recent escalation, Pakistan conducted air strikes inside Afghanistan against what it claimed were terrorist hideouts on October 9, 2025. The attack marked a remarkable escalation in the souring... Shakoor Ahmad Wani | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
Indus Waters Treaty: Looking Back, Looking Ahead On September 19, 1960, in Karachi, the bustling port city and economic hub of Pakistan, two political leaders and a distinguished international banker convened to sign a document that would... Uttam Kumar Sinha | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
Demanding an Inclusive Governance: Nepal’s 2025 Youth Uprising in Perspective The youth uprising in Nepal in September 2025 must be understood not as an isolated incident but as a striking manifestation of a global trend of increasing visibility and influence... Sneha M | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Role as ‘Preferred Security Partner’ in the Indian Ocean Region: A Strategic Assessment of Maritime Leadership and Regional Cooperation Over the last few years India has been progressively attempting to establish itself as a ‘preferred security partner’ in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). This transformation represents a fundamental shift... Abhay Kumar Singh , R. Vignesh | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment Originating in the wake of cold war bipolarity, non-alignment became the dominant approach under Nehru, until the early 1960s to navigate India’s engagement with the international system. Faced with volatility... Mayuri Banerjee | September-October 2025 | Strategic Analysis
