Dr. V.L. Dharurkar

The Russia Squeeze

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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