International Affairs

Can the Indus Waters Treaty Defeat Terrorism?

Weaponizing the Indus Waters Treaty will undermine the efforts to help South Asia overcome its flawed & troubled colonial resource and river control legacies. Recovering the idea of the…
▶25-Jun-2025
Rohan D’Souza

The Indus Water Wars: What Comes Next?

India has a strong case to revise the Indus Waters Treaty. But how it gets Pakistan onto the table will cast a shadow on its water-sharing deals with China and Bangladesh.
▶29-May-2025
Raag Yadava

Strategic Thinking and the Nuclear Garden Path

The recent conflagration between India and Pakistan urges us to reflect once again on the logic of nuclear deterrence and its false assurances of safety. Taking off from the movie “Dr. Strangelove”,…
▶15-May-2025
Jean Drèze

Shape of Things to Come

History is not always a perfect guide, but we should recall that the 'polycrisis' of the 1930s led to global devastation. We are at that moment when the US is showing that laws, norms, and…
▶27-Mar-2025
Itty Abraham

BRICS’s Bandung Moment

As a rush of countries seek to join BRICS, can it become the voice of the Global South by rediscovering the spirit of Bandung 1955? And can and will India lead the Global South in BRICS by…
▶26-Feb-2024
K. N. Hari Kumar

The G20: Political Stunts, Platitudes, and No Teeth

Whatever the government may claim, the achievements of the G20 summit in New Delhi did not quite live up to the glitter, despite the year-long rhetoric and drama indulged in by India while preparing…
▶27-Sep-2023
D. Ravi Kanth

Can the G20 Achieve Much in the Shadow of Conflict?

Disagreement about Russia and the Ukrainian war have stymied consensus on broader issues at the G20. Neutral presidencies like India's will make the grouping trudge along, but just that.
▶07-Sep-2023
Tom Chodor

Looking Back at G20 after 25 Years

The G20 has remained a handmaiden of the Group of Seven (G7). Hence, even at the G20 the concerns of developing countries have been secondary to the interests of the major economies. Will the Indian…
▶17-Apr-2023
Biswajit Dhar

Ukraine Changed, As Did They: The Human Cost of War

Conversations with a handful of Ukrainian women from which this account is woven, throw light on the grim reality most ordinary Ukrainians have had to live through since Russia attacked the country…
▶28-Mar-2023
Rishabh Kachroo

India’s Geo-Economic Foreign Policy

Economic considerations are now driving India’s seemingly adroit steps in the foreign policy arena. Foreign policy has become a tool through which India is absorbing critical economic pressures, and…
▶20-Mar-2023
Karthik Nachiappan