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India’s Approach to Taliban 2.0: Cautious and Persistent
Recent Indian moves such as foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s meeting with the Taliban regime’s foreign minister in January 2025 and news reports of New Delhi potentially accepting a Taliban representative to head the embassy have generated a lot of curiosity…
The EU-India Partnership: Realigned and Re-imagined?
Last month, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and a team of European Union (EU) Commissioners was on an official visit to India. The delegation, comprising 22 out of the 27 members of the EU College of…
India’s Nuclear Bet: Liberalization, Small Reactors, and Big Ambitions
India’s nuclear energy goals have taken a significant leap forward with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recent announcement of the Nuclear Energy Mission in the 2025 budget. With an allocation of Rs. 20,000 crore (USD $2.30 billion) to focus on the…
A Recalibration of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy? The Era of Dissanayake
In September 2024, two years after a severe national economic crisis began, Sri Lanka witnessed a significant shift in its political landscape with the election of Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president. Lack of transparency and good governance had resulted in…
India and Vietnam Can Do More to Leverage Their Complementarities
On July 30 and August 1 of this year, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited India in an effort to advance a unique relationship driven by shared strategic concerns over China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. In recent years,…
Why BIMSTEC’s Maritime Transport Agreement is Essential for India
India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, recently hosted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Foreign Ministers’ retreat in New Delhi. The meeting’s objective was to prepare outcomes for the upcoming BIMSTEC summit in Thailand.…