Dr. V.L. Dharurkar
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The Russia Squeeze
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By Dr. V.L. Dharurkar
Washington’s new Russia sanctions give Donald Trump a powerful economic weapon, but India’s response will have to balance energy security, trade and strategic autonomy.
The United States has acquired a...
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A Flemish Foothold
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Belgium’s place at the heart of Europe is giving India a new opening into the continent’s trade, technology and defence networks.
Despite not being a great power nor having France’s...
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Phone Call Diplomacy
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In an India-US relationship increasingly tested by geopolitics, a direct line between leaders may do more than a round of public diplomacy.
While diplomacy is often imagined in the grand...
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Pakistan’s Kashmir Crisis
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As unrest engulfs Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, economic hardship, political alienation and a forceful state response are exposing the widening cracks in Islamabad’s governance of the region.
Pakistan today finds itself confronting...
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A Quiet Warning to China
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The Quad is evolving from a strategic conversation into a practical partnership aimed at preserving a free, open and secure Indo-Pacific without becoming a formal military alliance.
The Indo-Pacific has...
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Return of the Gods
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The repatriation of a centuries-old Kartikeya idol from Australia underscores the importance of ‘civilisational diplomacy’ on India’s part.
India and Australia have spent the past two decades discovering that they...
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Lotus and Sakura
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As Asia’s strategic map shifts, India and Japan are discovering that their partnership is about far more than balancing China.
There was a time when India and Japan viewed one...
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From Trading Partners to Strategic Allies
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As the Indo-Pacific enters an era of heightened geopolitical competition, India and South Korea are discovering that economic complementarity alone is no longer enough.
For decades, India and South Korea...
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The Modi-Trump Contrast
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Though often grouped together as ‘nationalist strongmen,’ Narendra Modi and Donald Trump reveal strikingly different approaches to power, diplomacy and governance.
Politics in the 21st century has become increasingly personalised....
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Petrodiplomacy, Indian Style
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As geopolitical uncertainty reshapes energy markets, India is rediscovering Venezuela as a useful partner in a pragmatic search for energy security.
For much of the past decade, Venezuela occupied an...
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Myanmar Matters
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If India seeks deeper integration with Southeast Asia, Myanmar is the gateway through which those ambitions must pass.
For all the attention lavished on the Indo-Pacific, Myanmar remains curiously underappreciated...
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Mediterranean Pivot
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As Turkey grows closer to Pakistan and the Mediterranean gains geopolitical weight, India has discovered an unlikely but useful partner in Cyprus.
In diplomacy, small states frequently become the hinges...
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