External Affairs / Diplomacy 514 Axis of Alarm: Saudi-Pakistan Pact India faces a fresh geopolitical jolt. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Defence Pact, declaring ‘an attack on one is an attack on both,’ raises a... Kabir Taneja 30 Sep 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 392 Hydropolitics Rising in Africa? Crises in Africa rarely begin with politics alone. They often start with water — too little, too dirty, or unfairly shared. Droughts push pastoralists... Sareen Malik 30 Sep 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 436 Water as the New Geopolitical Pivot The Kosh Tepa Canal is more than a local water project in Afghanistan—it has the potential to redefine regional cooperation, conflict, and the geopoli... Anwar Hussain 30 Sep 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 404 Daddy in the Oval Office At the White House court, it wasn’t a summit but a spectacle of subordination—Trump at the center, Europe reduced to side characters. The continent on... Anwar Hussain 02 Sep 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 324 Taiwan Tensions:A Rift in the Relationship? Amid rising tensions over Taiwan, the Trump administration has questioned the role of allies. Yet, its transactional approach risks undermining the st... Don McLain Gill 01 Aug 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 352 Oil, Sanctions, and Sovereignty: Will India Yield? On July 15, 2025, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stood in Washington, not as a symbol of military unity but as a messenger of economic threats. Riya Goyal 17 Jul 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 423 Between Dialogue and Distrust: India-China Reset on Thin Ice India and China have entered a phase of tentative rapprochement, driven by converging interests but shadowed by persistent mistrust stemming from the ... Dhanishtha De 11 Jul 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 297 BRICS 2025: Redefining Global Power Play The BRICS 2025 Summit took place from 6th July 2025-7th July 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the participation of the member states, namely, Bra... Dhanishtha De 08 Jul 2025
External Affairs / Diplomacy 457 BRICS vs the Dollar: Dawn of a New Global Battle As the sun set over the sparkling skyline of Rio de Janeiro on 6–7 July 2025, the 17th BRICS Summit was far more than a diplomatic gathering—it was a ... Shreya Gupta 08 Jul 2025