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 “To balance or not? Maldives Tough Choice Between India and China”
Introduction
As global focus shifts from continental to maritime dominance, reflected in the evolution from Mackinder’s Heartland Theory to Spykman’s Rimland Theory, small island nations...
Issue Brief on “RSS 100 Years: Its Socio-Political Impacts, Achievements, and Future Objectives”
Introduction
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has completed its 100 years on 27 September 2025. Founded by Keshav Baliram Hegdewar in 1925, the RSS aims...
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...
