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A Line on the Map, a Home on Both Sides: India’s Unfinished Boundary with Myanmar

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By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction As New Delhi accelerates fencing and quietly explores a small territorial exchange in Manipur, the real test is whether...
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Seeing Is Not Enough: Why the Indian Ocean Needs Collective Attribution for Grey-Zone Threats

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By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction Regional states have built an impressive surveillance grid over the past decade. The harder question is what to do...
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Turning the Carbon Squeeze into a Springboard: India’s CBAM Dilemma After the EU Trade Deal

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By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN A landmark free trade agreement with Brussels has opened Europe's markets to Indian exporters just as a new carbon...
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Engines, Drones and Data: Inside India’s Defence Indigenisation Push in a Fast-Changing Battlespace

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By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction From a stealth fighter's missing engine to a jet-powered kamikaze drone's first flight, September 2026 offered a compact snapshot...
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The SCO at 25: A Bloc Building Institutions Faster Than It Builds Consensus

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By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN As the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks a quarter-century, its expanding security architecture and connectivity ambitions sit uneasily alongside an...
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We call it “Mantra”, They call it Positive Affirmations

By: Anamika Tiwari, Guest Author, GSDN Are we discovering something new—or rediscovering the wisdom of our ancient Indian Knowledge Systems? In today’s world, “Positive Affirmations” have...
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When Three Chokepoints Fail Together: Rethinking Maritime Resilience After 2026

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN For most of the past decade, the story of global shipping's vulnerable chokepoints has been a story told one...
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Before the Barrels Move: What Canada’s Pacific Pivot Actually Requires of India

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN The commercial logic for India to buy more Canadian oil and gas is easy to state and, on its...
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Ground Broken, Not Yet Built: What Koizumi’s Visit Really Shows About India-Japan Defence Ties

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Shinjiro Koizumi's two-day visit to India in August 2026 has been read, reasonably, as a turning point. A decade...
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Why China’s Grip on Rare Earth is Ringing Warning Bells for the World 

By : Soumya Dutta, Research Analyst, GSDN Indonesia, the country with the world’s largest nickel reserve at approximately 60% had decided to halt its export...
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The Quiet Alternative: Why India’s Modest Energy Diplomacy Is Gaining Ground in Africa as Bigger Pledges Stall

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Africa's energy problem has never really been a shortage of promises. In the fourteen years since the first big...
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The G7’s Democracy Problem: Why 2026 Is the Wrong Year to Formalise a D10

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN For a concept that has been "about to happen" for eighteen years, the idea of a D10 — a...
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Salami-Sliced Legitimacy: How the World Is Normalising the Taliban Without Ever Formally Saying So? 

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction In June 2026, Belgium granted one-day visas to a five-member Taliban delegation so it could hold talks with European...
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Over the Desert Where History Was Made: India’s Sarang Helicopters Take Wing in Egypt

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN There is a particular kind of symbolism in flying five helicopters in tight formation over El Alamein. The stretch...
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Can the World De-Dollarize? 

By : Prachi Kushwah, Research Analyst, GSDN Introduction  The question of whether the world can de-dollarize has moved from an academic debate to a strategic economic...
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India’s BRICS Balancing Act: Between Development, Diplomacy and Discord

By: Amisha Mohan The 18th BRICS Summit to be hosted by India in New Delhi on September 12-13 serves as a litmus test for contemporary...
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The Mecca Pact and the Path Forward: A New Security Architecture in West Asia and Its Implications 

By : Dr. Gayathri Pramod Panamoottil The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye on 7 August 2026 represents...
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