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Algorithmic Authoritarianism: AI Surveillance, Ethnic Control, and the Uyghur Question in Xinjiang

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), accelerated by the global prominence of tools such as ChatGPT, has transformed...

The Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean: Institutions, Innovation, and Integrated Governance

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction The Indian Ocean is emerging as one of the most geopolitically significant and economically vital maritime spaces of the...

Is CPEC in Pakistan seeing Success? 

By: Sonalika Singh, Consulting Editor, GSDN The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, stands as one of the most ambitious experiments...

Gendering Separatism: Women, War, and the Politics of Resistance

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction Armed conflicts and separatist movements have historically been narrated through masculinized frameworks of power, strategy, and territorial control. Yet,...

India’s Aid Diplomacy in Its Eastern Neighbourhood: Strategic Imperatives, Sub-Regionalism, and Geopolitical Competition

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction Aid diplomacy has emerged as a central instrument of contemporary statecraft, enabling states to project influence, cultivate goodwill, and...

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Has USA Re-Emerged as the Key Player in the Middle East?

By: Namya Sethi The Middle East is still enormously significant to world politics because it has a lot of oil, is the birthplace of three...

Is IMEC a Casualty of the Middle East Tensions?

By: Simran Sodhi It would be an appropriate assessment to make at this point that one of the biggest casualties of the Israel-Iran conflict is...

Taiwan at the Fault Line: Strategic Geography and the US-China Contest for Indo-Pacific Supremacy

By: Geehan Kooner ‘Wars begin where deep currents of conflict between major powers converge—where opposing military forces face each other, poised for action. One false...

Pakistan’s Marriages of Convenience

By: Brigadier Anil John Alfred Pereira, SM (Retd) As the geopolitical sands shift, India’s commitment must be to nurture the belief that true security and...

G7 Summit 2025

By: Sonalika Singh, Research Analyst, GSDN The G7 is an informal bloc of industrialized democracies, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the...

Why Turkey Supports Pakistan Militarily: A Strategic Brotherhood in a Changing World

By: Drishti Gupta, Research Analyst, GSDN In today’s changing world, the strong military partnership between Turkey and Pakistan stands out as a key relationship between...

Why South Africa Matters in Global Geopolitics?

By: Afridi Ahmed, Research Analyst, GSDN In 1994 after emerging from the Apartheid regime, South Africa has been considered the most advanced economy in sub-Saharan...

US-China Trade War

By: Gayathri Pramod The U.S.-China tariff war, initiated in 2018, has evolved into a prolonged economic confrontation with significant global implications. As of mid-2025, both...

Indonesia–Malaysia Ties: Between Conflict and Concord

By: C Shraddha The relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia is one of historical richness. This can be mapped back to the 7th century when...

Bangladesh & Myanmar: The Escalating Border Crisis

By: Chethana Enugula The current Bangladesh-Myanmar tensions have become a matter of urgent regional concern, developing out of decades-long ethnic conflict, political unrest, and humanitarian...

Balancing Necessity and Mistrust: A Geopolitical View of Pakistan–U.S. Relations

By: Ahana Sarkar The connection between Pakistan and the United States changed much over the decades; it had times of close partnership and periods of...

China out of Pakistan’s Shadow: China’s Great Gamble

By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd), Editor, GSDN In the 1978 movie “Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow”, largely unaware to the opponents of the protagonist,...

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