Eastern Mediterranean: A Natural Gas Hub Worth Exploring The Eastern Mediterranean offers India strong prospects for import of natural gas, given strong bilateral relations with regional countries, including Egypt, Israel, Greece and Cyprus. Md. Muddassir Quamar | November 01, 2022 | IDSA Comments
The Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics: Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny, HarperCollins, Gurugram The conspicuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan has resulted in a political vacuum, garnering immediate attention of regional and great powers alike. In The Comrades and the Mullahs, presenting Afghanistan’s long... Muneeb Yousuf | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump: Patrick Porter, Polity Press, Cambridge and Medford The coming of Donald Trump to power as the 45th President of the United States amounted to a moment of reckoning for the American foreign policy establishment. With his unconventional... Sanjeet Kashyap | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration: Christopher Snedden, Manchester University Press, Manchester Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration by noted author and expert Christopher Snedden touches upon a raw nerve in the discourse on Kashmir—the aspiration for independence. Snedden describes how and where... Priyanka Singh | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
China in India’s Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia: Chietigj Bajpaee, Routledge, Abingdon, UK The commemoration of 2022 as the ‘ASEAN-India Year of Friendship’ marks thirty years of the partnership between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Beginning in 1992 with... Amrita Jash | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
India–Africa Relations: Changing Horizons: Rajiv Bhatia, Routledge, New York India’s partnership with Africa has come into the limelight in recent years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Address to the Ugandan parliament in 2018 reiterated that Africa is a... Ruchita Beri | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Debating the Past: Nehru, China and Lessons from 1962 War The year 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. Fought over a period of one month, the war is seen as one of the watersheds in the... Mayuri Banerjee | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
China’s South Asia Policy The first half of 1971 witnessed some significant developments in South Asia: the emergence of a liberation movement for an independent Bangla Desh, the Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) insurgency in... K. N. Ramachandran | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
‘Strategising’ the India-EU Partnership India’s foreign policy, as in the case of any other sovereign state, aims at protecting and promoting the country’s ‘national interest.’ Strategic autonomy, which has been its defining value and... Manoj Babu Buraga | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Quad and the Indo-Pacific: Examining the Balance of Interest Theory in Quad Coalition In light of China’s rise, the Quad coalition has gained momentum in its efforts to maintain a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP). While scholars have discussed the relevance of Quad,... Adarsh Badri | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
