Foreign Policy & Strategy
Positioning Critical Minerals in the India-EU Partnership...
Anindita Sinh discusses the potential for India and the EU to cooperate towards resilient supply chains for critical minerals given their shared...
Beyond Self-reliance: India’s International Partnerships on Critical...
This blog series maps and surveys the growing number of India’s international partnerships in the critical minerals space, providing readers with a...
A Better but Still Insufficient MEA Budget for Indian Diplomacy...
For India to realise its 2047 Viksit Bharat ambition and pursue its strategies for an increasingly competitive and complex world, the Ministry of...
Russia’s Rising Role in India’s Neighbourhood First Policy...
The blog argues that common to most of the analysis on Russia-India relations is the restrictive tendency to focus on three pillars: arms, energy, and...
Crossroads of Power: Strategic Aspects of India’s Economic Relations...
This study reviews the strategic aspects and related ramifications of existing and potential surface trading routes between India and the three South...
India’s Climate Diplomacy: New Priorities and Policy Options...
This Policy Brief explores how India has transformed into a positive force on the global stage, achieving domestic climate targets and spearheading...
2024: Brazil’s G20 Year...
Brazil gears up to lead the G20 with a three-point agenda focusing on combating hunger, poverty, and inequality; sustainable development; and global...
Quad-ASEAN Technology Cooperation for Critical Minerals Supply Chains...
As a part of CSEP's ongoing work on securing critical minerals for India’s green technology and net-zero transition, this analysis incorporates...
Diplomacy in a Changing World...
Shivshankar Menon explores the shifting tides of diplomacy. This piece examines the evolving landscape of international relations in a changing world....
Tracks to Transition: India’s Global Climate Strategy...
An increasingly competitive geopolitical context is fragmenting global climate governance and traditional modes of multilateral cooperation. The...
More of the same? India’s Strategic Balance...
In this episode of the Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs, Constantino Xavier discusses India’s foreign policy and its relationship with Russia....
An Indian View on ASEAN...
This is an edited and revised adaptation of remarks by Shivshankar Menon from the E-Launch and Discussion of The State of Southeast Asia: 2023 Survey...
How India Budgets to Become a Leading Power...
Constantino Xavier and Riya Sinha comment on the MEA Budget and how India can become a leading power in an increasingly uncertain, competitive and...
Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia...
Chapter on "Reinventing Non-Alignment in South Asia:The Foreign Policies of Nepal and the Maldives" by Nicholas Blarel and Constantino Xavier in the...
In Dialogue with Jaimini Bhagwati on “The Geoeconomic Effects of the...
Jaimini Bhagwati, Distinguished Fellow, CSEP, and former Indian Foreign Service officer, talks to Constantino Xavier, Fellow, CSEP about the impact...
In Dialogue with Shivshankar Menon on the Russia-Ukraine War...
In the first episode of In Dialogue, Shivshankar Menon, Distinguished Fellow, CSEP, and former NSA, talks to Constantino Xavier, Fellow, CSEP, about...
Internal Drivers of China’s External Behaviour...
Shivshankar Menon suggests crucial domestic factors which have driven China’s path and examines some implications of the role in shaping China’s...
Interview: On India’s neighbourhood, regional institutions and...
Q. Given your expertise in South Asia, by making use of the framework established within comparative politics how do you make sense of India’s...
India’s foreign affairs strategy...
India finds itself in an increasingly dangerous world, one that is fragmenting and slowing down economically....
Acting East: India in the Indo-Pacific...
On January 26, 2018, the 68th anniversary of India becoming a republic, New Delhi hosted the leaders of all 10 member states of the Association of...
From the iPhone to Huawei: The new geopolitics of technology...
In meetings in various international capitals this summer from a gathering of defense ministers in Singapore to a meeting of economic policy...
India 2024: A global India...
The next Indian government faces a world that looks very different from the way it did five – and certainly 10 or 20 – years ago. The global...
India 2024: A secure India...
If we wish to secure the continued transformation of India, we must be prepared for the new situation and threats that we face. At a minimum, that...
Survey of India’s Strategic Community...
Like every major country, India has a strategic community: a relatively small group of professionals who, in different ways, direct or...
Studying international relations in India...
Thank you for asking me to the All India International and Area Studies Convention 2019. You have chosen an ambitious topic: “Ascending India:...
Maritime connectivity and security in the Indo-Pacific...
Thank you for the kind invitation to address this august gathering in Bhubaneshwar today, and my Congratulations to Ambassador Lalit Mansingh and his...
India’s strategic landscape: An assessment...
In trying to assess the strategic environment in which India finds itself in 2018, it may be useful to make eight broad observations. One, the Indian...
What about India, Indonesia, Australia: The new trilateral? ...
Among the growing network of trilateral discussions involving India and other countries, one that has received relatively little attention is the...
Implications of the US-China trade dispute...
President Donald Trump has unleashed a wave of tariffs over the past year against many of its largest trading partners including China, Canada, the...
India rising: Soft power and the world’s largest democracy...
Arguably, few phrases are as misused in international relations as “soft power.” When he coined the term, Joseph Nye captured the...
Changing nature of international order and the role of U.S....
Brookings India hosted an expert roundtable discussion with Bruce Jones, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings...
The World Cup exposes the limits of globalization...
International soccer, often known around the world as football, is undoubtedly a beneficiary and a symbol of globalization. Over 70 percent of players...
Measuring new indicators of growth...
Notions of being prosperous and developed are changing around the world. The concepts of Gross National Happiness and United Nations’ World...
Future of the India-Russia relationship post Sochi summit...
On May 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin for an informal summit in Sochi, where the two leaders upgraded this...
Wuhan Summit: An important signal of intent by India and China...
The last two years have seen a considerable widening of differences between China and India over issues such as the boundary dispute, the Belt and...
Perspectives on Pacific geopolitics...
The concept of the Indo-Pacific has been in existence for several years now, although it has recently gained renewed traction. An understanding of the...
A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan-India Security Partnership in...
The primary driver of Indo-Japan ties is the shared concern about the implications of China’s rise. Japan’s reframing of its security...
Aid wars: U.S.-Soviet competition in India...
The issue of development aid has significant contemporary relevance. Today, many longstanding donor countries like the United States debate the...
Facebook Chat on India-US relations...
Q: Dhruva, according to you which sectors will be the focus of the India-U.S. dialogue? Dhruva: Thanks for your question. The India-U.S. agenda is...
Trump & Modi: Seeking a global partnership?...
The visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Washington DC provides an opportunity for the US and India to set aside some of the uncertainties that have...
Growing the U.S.-India economic relationship: The only way forward...
The June 26 White House meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and United States President Donald Trump will be an opportunity to...
India and the United States in the Trump era: Re-evaluating bilateral and...
Donald Trump’s election at a time of growing and converging interests between India and the United States necessitates a re-evaluation of...
Actualising East: India in a Multipolar Asia...
After years of a ‘Look East’ policy that recognised the importance of the Asia-Pacific region for Indian interests, the Indian government...
Dhruva Jaishankar on how the H-1B visa controversy will affect India...
https://twitter.com/ABCNews24/status/826396780057079808 Brookings India Fellow for Foreign Policy Dhruva Jaishankar spoke to ABC News on the future of...
Australia-India relations: poised for take off...
Relations between India and the United States before the redefining changes of the past two decades were possibly best summarised in the title of a...
It’s time to resuscitate the Asia-Pacific Quad...
2016 was quite a year. The Middle East continued its violent downward spiral; a failed coup in Turkey erased the last vestiges of democracy in that...
“Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric does not create an opening for...
In an interview to The Quint on July 22, Foreign Policy Fellow Dhruva Jaishankar offered a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Presidential election...
What China’s rise means for India...
As a rising power, China is determined to have an independent say in the economic, political, and security order around her and in the world. What...
It is time to get past the “single story” about Africa...
India has only 29 embassies in Africa, while the continent has 54 countries — or 55 if one counts the disputed Western Sahara as a...
Watching how Modi’s UAE visit translates on ground...
WPS Sidhu outlines important issues to watch in India-UAE relations, from investments to countering terrorism, Indian workers rights and diplomacy...
UAE visit part of Modi’s Look East, Link West strategy...
WPS Sidhu would like to wait and watch out the India-UAE cooperation on counter-terrorism is actually going to play out This interview first appeared...
India-U.S. Relations: Repaired, Revived, Revitalized...
In the foreign policy arena the biggest accomplishment of the Narendra Modi government has doubtless been the evolution of relations with the United...
Bold Initiatives Stymied by Systemic Weakness...
While Mr. Modi’s foreign policy objectives are the same as his predecessor, what has changed is the implementation and operationalization of...
How great power competition has changed...
Power is now more evenly distributed in the international system. As a result, there is rising geopolitical competition among great powers....
The Iran deal: Implications for U.S.-India relations...
Should the deal with Iran on nuclear non-proliferation be concluded this summer, it would also vindicate India’s preference for diplomacy over...
India: Building the Foundations for Robust Global Engagement...
While Mr. Modi’s personal world view and its effect on India’s foreign policy is difficult to discern, India has considerable potential to...
Operationalizing India-U.S. Civil Nuclear Cooperation...
U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation, starting with the July 18, 2005 nuclear agreement and culminating in the formal 123-agreement bill approved by...
Introduction: Building Up the India-U.S. Relationship...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama met for their first summit in September 2014 in Washington DC, they had a crowded and...
India-U.S. Relations: The View from New Delhi...
There was a time when India-U.S. relations were summed up in platitudes like “world’s largest democracies,” while seasoned pundits...
Re-energizing India-U.S. Civil Nuclear Cooperation...
India-U.S. civil nuclear cooperation, starting with the July 2005 nuclear agreement and culminating in the formal 123-agreement bill approved by the...
India’s Foreign Policy Priorities and India-U.S. Relations...
There is broad consensus in India that the country’s single most important objective is to become the world’s third largest economy by...
The Concept of Strategic Balance: Relevance and Reality – An Asian...
Introduction: The concept of strategic balance was developed by the two superpowers in the context of East-West nuclear contestation during the Cold...
Contemporary Geopolitics...
Senior Fellow WPS Sidhu made presentations at The Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), as part of the teaching and research multidisciplinary...
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