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India Must Level Up to Compete with China in the Western Indian Ocean
The India-China geopolitical rivalry has traditionally been viewed through a continental lens, with the border dispute between the neighbors overshadowing other aspects of their competition. However, as the continental neighbors command the seas and secure their interests, the island countries…

Water as a Multilateral Issue? The Case of Bangladesh and Implications for Indian Diplomacy
Even as India-Bangladesh ties have seen signs of economic and political stress in recent days and weeks, one recent development with bilateral implications went largely unnoticed. On June 20, Bangladesh became the first South Asian country to accede to the…

India and Bangladesh Should Insulate Their Border from Bilateral Tensions
A year since the unceremonious ouster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a long-time ally of India, all is not well along the India-Bangladesh border. Stretching over 4,000 kilometers, it is India’s longest land border, and among the ten longest…

Can India and Bangladesh Clear the Slate a Year after Hasina?
August 5 marked one year since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League (AL) government in Dhaka. In the twelve months since, under an interim government (IG) with Muhammad Yunus as Chief Advisor, Bangladesh’s legacy political parties including the…

بھارت اور پاکستان کا ٹرمپ وائٹ ہاؤس کے ساتھ تقابلی مشکلات کا سامنا
مئی میں پاک بھارت تصادم کے بعد اس مہینے کے آغاز میں سفارتی روابط استوار کرنے اور کشمیر اور دہشت گردی کے بارے میں اپنے مؤقف کے لیے امریکی حمایت حاصل کرنے بھارت اور پاکستان کے وفود امریکہ پہنچے۔ حزبِ…

Quad and Counterterrorism? Considerations for the 2025 Summit
Earlier this month, the Quad took an unprecedented stand on the issue of terrorism at the foreign ministers’ meeting in Washington. The joint statement condemned “all acts of terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross-border…