Geopolitics of Indian Ocean Islands in 2019: Takeaways for Traditional Powers
China’s rapidly expanding presence in the Indian Ocean in recent years underlines the emergence of Beijing as a new player in the region. Increasing Sino-Indian […]
Category: Indo-Pacific
Understanding the Indo-Pacific: A Case of Two Rivalries
The concept of the Indo-Pacific has emerged from an evolving mental map of the increasingly contiguous Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as the growing […]
Africa Matters for India: Building Partnerships in the Western Indian Ocean
Recently, leaders from India, France, and the four Vanilla Island nations (Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, and Comoros) met for the first time at the remote French […]
INDIA, CHINA, AND THE BATTLE OF PERCEPTIONS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
In 2018, Vivek Mishra assessed the importance of narrative-building, based on both hard and soft power, in the India-China battle for influence among countries in the […]
چینی وزارت دفاع کا وائٹ پیپر، بھارت کیلئے اہم مضمرات
چینی وزارت برائے قومی دفاع کا جولائی کے اختتام پر شائع کردہ نیشنل ڈیفنس وائٹ پیپر (این ڈی ڈبلیو پی) چینی کمیونسٹ پارٹی کی ۱۹ویں […]
Towards a United States-India Reset: Pivoting Trade and Strategy Together
As the United Sates-China trade war goes further south, India must step up to the big table quickly. U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Indian Prime Minister […]
China’s Defense White Paper: Key Implications for India
The national defense white paper (NDWP) issued by China’s Ministry of National Defense in late July is the most recent official document on defense and […]
ASEAN’s Outlook for the Indo-Pacific: An Attempt to Set Rules of the Game
Negating allegations that the grouping takes weak positions on issues of geostrategic sensitivity, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently came out with the […]
Modi 2.0’s Foreign Policy: More Continuity than Change
In most democracies, foreign policy tends to stay the course despite partisan changes in leadership. In India’s case, such continuities are visible across time and […]
Indo-U.S. Relations in 2019: Navigating Complex Differences
Just when it seemed that Indo-U.S. ties had attained a semblance of predictability, relations between the oldest and the largest democracies of the world are […]