Publications
Tariffs, Russian Oil and India’s Economic Security: Understanding the New Trade Pressure
ABSTRACT The India and United States relationship has entered a period of growing economic and diplomatic friction amid the escalation of tariff disputes and disagreements over India’s continued purchase of Russian crude oil. The tariff issue has evolved beyond conventi...
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India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA): Advancing a Strategic Economic Partnership in the Western Indian Ocean
The India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), signed in December 2025, marks a significant expansion of bilateral relations from a traditional energy and diaspora partnership to a comprehensive economic and strategic framework. Covering trade in goods, se...
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Navigating Energy Shocks and Disinflation: Balancing Growth and Price Stability in a Contested Multipolar Landscape
INTRODUCTION As the great saying in IR goes " the struggle for oil is one of the great dramas of world politics".recent times have only validated its applicability. Geopolitical usage of not only energy resources but also of routes through which they pass has been an unwelcom...
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Strengthening European Maritime Security: Assessing the EU Defence Ministers’ Maritime Security Agenda
Summary The informal meeting organized with the European Union Defence Ministers in Cyprus, in reference to the contemporary Russia-Ukraine War and significant attention to maritime security in the midst of geopolitical tensions. The EU accuses Russia stating their shadow fle...
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Should West Africa stop chasing pirates and start fixing its corrupt ports to stop the global cocaine trade?
Summary West Africa has become a corridor to the cocaine business across maritime lanes from South America to Europe. Since 2019, this region has become the key global hub for cocaine smuggling. Cocaine consumption has also increased in the region, bringing certain chal...
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Between Iron Fleets and Strangled Straits: Who Commands the World's Arteries After the Trump-Xi Beijing Summit?
Summary The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit has brought the United States and China’s maritime rivalry back to another stage, mainly in reference to trade routes and strategic chokepoints. This issue briefly focuses on the effect of the US-China rivalry, drawing attention to po...
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Choke Point Politics: The Great Nicobar Project and the Contested Geopolitics of the Eastern Indian Ocean
Summary Great Nicobar is an isolated island located north of Sumatra, near Indonesia as a part of India. Currently proposed for the Great Nicobar development plan, a massive infrastructure project consists of multiple construction hubs converting Grea...
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Protectionism in India’s External Economic Policy
Summary India’s external economic policy has been moving gradually towards selective protectionism over the last decade. Over the last decade, India has been moving towards selective protectionism in its external economic policy. Fears of import dependence, unfair compe...
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India’s Strategic Options in a US–China G2 Scenario: Preserving Strategic Autonomy amid Tightening Bipolarity.
SUMMARY The emergence of a US–China “G2” dynamic, where global politics is increasingly shaped by competition between Washington and Beijing, poses a structural challenge to India’s long-standing commitment to strategic autonomy (Allison, 2017). As bi...
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