New Delhi convened a strategic dialogue with Washington on 5-6 August, foregrounding themes of security, stability, economic cooperation, and most critically, the vulnerabilities of global […]
India’s Strategic Tightrope: Lessons from Iran War and Trump’s Challenge
New Delhi convened a strategic dialogue with Washington on 5-6 August, foregrounding themes of security, stability, economic cooperation, and most critically, the vulnerabilities of global supply chains. Parallel Track II diplomacy has drawn strategists into deliberations on the trajectory of bilateral ties. Yet, the India-US relationship has deteriorated alarmingly in recent years. Once celebrated under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the partnership has faltered and entangled in the labyrinthine pressures of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. At the heart of this debate lies strategic autonomy which has become a cardinal principle of India’s grand strategy over the last many years. Defined as sovereign latitude in decision‑making and strategic depth, strategic autonomy has long been positioned as a hallmark of a non‑Western…
India’s Strategic Tightrope: Lessons from Iran War and Trump’s Challenge
New Delhi convened a strategic dialogue with Washington on 5-6…
The Limits of Comparison: Hamas-Hezbollah and the Politics of Disarmament
The near-simultaneous US-led campaigns to disarm Hamas in Gaza and…
The New Grammar of Repression: Reading Contemporary Authoritarianism through Baloch Movement in Pakistan
When a state confronts political dissent, the response often reveals…
Review of Zeynep Özgen’s Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamic Movement in Turkey
Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamic Movement in TurkeyZeynep…
Strategic Transactionalism: Russia’s Post-Assad Playbook in the Middle East
For most of 2025, Western capitals perceived that Russia’s position…
The Limits of Comparison: Hamas-Hezbollah and the Politics of Disarmament
The near-simultaneous US-led campaigns to disarm Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have fostered a prevailing analytical assumption: that Hamas is either currently following […]
The New Grammar of Repression: Reading Contemporary Authoritarianism through Baloch Movement in Pakistan
When a state confronts political dissent, the response often reveals more about its character than its constitutional promises. Pakistan’s treatment of the Baloch movement offers […]
Review of Zeynep Özgen’s Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamic Movement in Turkey
The book “Pious Politics” by Zeynep Özgen discusses the rise of the Islamist movement through a popular and well-organised development in Turkey over decades that […]
Strategic Transactionalism: Russia’s Post-Assad Playbook in the Middle East
For most of 2025, Western capitals perceived that Russia’s position in the Middle East was in terminal decline. The fall of Bashar al-Assad in December […]
Why India and Iran Cannot Afford to Drift Apart
The war that has convulsed West Asia since February has tested every regional relationship, but few as quietly and as consequentially as the one between […]
Legacy of Leadership: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Gulf’s New Horizon
The former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, whose 18-year rule from 1995 to 2013 transformed a marginal Gulf Sheikhdom into an […]
Review of “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”
At times when Iran’s resistance is beleaguered, Vali Nasr’s book, “The Grand Strategy of Iran: A Political History”, traces the long-term strategic logic centred on […]
European Security Architecture after Ukraine: Between NATO Dependence and Strategic Autonomy
The contemporary European security architecture is undergoing a significant systemic reordering since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For nearly three decades, the […]
The Colour was Red: A Whisper of Hope, Love and Shared Silence
Review of Mahbod Seraji’s Rooftops of Tehran It was the long summer of restlessness, the youthness asking to colour the clapped mountains in red. Verses […]