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

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...

Seeing Is Not Enough: Why the Indian Ocean Needs Collective Attribution for Grey-Zone Threats

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...

Turning the Carbon Squeeze into a Springboard: India’s CBAM Dilemma After the EU Trade Deal

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...

The SCO at 25: A Bloc Building Institutions Faster Than It Builds Consensus

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...

How Iran has Checkmated Saudi Arabia through the Houthis  

By : Sonalika Singh, Consulting Editor, GSDN Iran’s strategy toward Saudi Arabia illustrates how a state with inferior conventional military capabilities can impose substantial strategic...

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

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...

Seeing Is Not Enough: Why the Indian Ocean Needs Collective Attribution for Grey-Zone Threats

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...

Turning the Carbon Squeeze into a Springboard: India’s CBAM Dilemma After the EU Trade Deal

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...

The SCO at 25: A Bloc Building Institutions Faster Than It Builds Consensus

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...

How Iran has Checkmated Saudi Arabia through the Houthis  

By : Sonalika Singh, Consulting Editor, GSDN Iran’s strategy toward Saudi Arabia illustrates how a state with inferior conventional military capabilities can impose substantial strategic...

Beyond the Handshake: Why Sequencing, Not Sentiment, Will Decide the India-China Reset

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN A cautious embrace at the BRICS table conceals a deeper disagreement over what comes first — border stability or...

Three Deterrents, One Kingdom: What the Saudi Nuclear Deal Really Reveals About a Post-American Gulf

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction The US-Saudi civil nuclear agreement signed on 22 July 2026 has been described, accurately, as a landmark: a 30-year...

Air Defence as Alliance Politics: What’s Really Driving Israel’s New Deals With Greece and Finland

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction On 7 August 2026, in a palace in Mecca, the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a...

The Vacuum Bhutan Is Racing to Fill: Buddhist Diplomacy Ahead of a Two-Dalai-Lama Future

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN A Himalayan kingdom of fewer than 800,000 people is building religious infrastructure, hosting royal visits, and convening Buddhist gatherings...

What went Wrong in USA’s planning for the Iran War?  

By : Sonalika Singh, Consulting Editor, GSDN The war with Iran exposed a gap between Washington’s expectations before the conflict and the strategic reality that emerged...

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...

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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