Issue Brief on “Central Asia-Japan Summit 2025: Japan’s Strategic Re-Engagement with Central Asia”
The first ever Japan- Central Asia Summit on 19-20 December 2025 in Tokyo, Japan, not only signifies Japan’s pivot to Central Asia but also...
Issue Brief on “Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee: Advancing Chinese...
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing from October 20 to...
Issue Brief on “Yemen in Focus: An Enduring Crisis”
On 2 December 2025, forces affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen launched a coordinated advance across multiple southern governorates, rapidly expanding...
Issue Brief on “India in 2025: A Glance through the Key Political, Constitutional, and...
Introduction
With the last sunset of 2025, the first quarter of the 21st century has come to an end. 2025 proved a momentous year for...
Issue Brief on “The Moscow-Delhi Pivot: Decoding Putin’s 2025 Visit to India”
The visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to New Delhi, during the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit on December 4-5, 2025, was much more...
Issue Brief on “Counter-Insurgency in India: India’s Military and Political Strategies to Control and...
Introduction
Successive Indian governments—regardless of the ruling party—have tried to prove that India is one nation with various cultures as part of one union. In...
Issue Brief on “SAARC institutional deadlock: India-Pakistan Tensions and Future of Regionalism in South...
Introduction
In spite of being one of the densely populated regions in the world, South Asia lags substantially in building regional cohesion among regional states....
Issue Brief on “IIOJK in 2025: Governance, Human Rights, and the Politics of Control”
Introduction
The year 2025 brought no respite for the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), who continued to suffer under Indian illegal...
Issue Brief on “Resumption of Nuclear Testing in the Era of Strategic Uncertainty?”
On October 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “because of other countries' programs, I have instructed the Department of...
Issue Brief on “Europe’s Peace Proposal Debate on Ukraine: Between Rearmament, Strategic Autonomy and...
The recent debate in the European Parliament (EP) over a “peace proposal” for Ukraine, calling, in various formulations, for a ceasefire, negotiations, or a...
