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September 14, 2026

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Why Central Asia matters in Global Geopolitics?

By: Trishnakhi Parashar, Research Analyst, GSDN Resting at the heart of Eurasia, Central Asia has long been more than just a geographic expression— it is...

India-US Relations: A Strategic Reckoning

By: Kashif Anwar The Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor which highlighted the nature of India-Pakistan relationship and India’s military capabilities was followed by a...

Why South America matters Geopolitically?

By: Rudraksh Saklani, Research Analyst, GSDN In this era, which is not of war, but of geo-economics rather, the latent nature and unmet potential of...

Should India trust China after Galwan?

By: Megha Mittal, Research Analyst, GSDN India-China relations have always been portrayed as a fine balancing act between cooperation and confrontation. They share civilizational linkages...

Islamic NATO: Implications for Israel & India

By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd), Editor, GSDN In 1977, David Hirst authored the book “The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence...

Pakistan’s Deepening Relations with the USA: A Concern for India

By: Drishti Gupta, Research Analyst, GSDN The triangular relationship between the United States, Pakistan, and India has historically shaped the geopolitics of South Asia. Washington’s...

Russia-India-China Trilateral Relations: Change in Global Power Dynamics

By: Aasi Ansari, Research Analyst, GSDN The recent Russia-India-China (RIC) Trilateral relations uniting to form an alternative power bloc against the United States has become...

Digital Technologies and the New Age of Revolutions

By: Brig AJA Pereira, SM (Retd) “The great danger of the modern world is that we are drowning in information but starved for wisdom," warned...

Why Pakistan-Bangladesh closeness should worry India?

By: Shreya Dabral, Research Analyst, GSDN South Asia has never been an example of simple geopolitics, in which the bitterness of history, the hostility of...

Will the Middle East ever see Peace?

By: Sanjay Mummana, Research Analyst, GSDN The Middle East is never just a desert between Asia and Africa; it is the place of the birth...

The Xi’an Consensus? China’s Blueprint for a new Eurasian Order

By: Prof. Bawa Singh, Anjana VS and Jay Koche China and the Central Asian Republics (CARs) have signed the Treaty of Permanent Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship, and...

The US-China Tango: Rise of G3 and Trouble for Taiwan

By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd), Editor, GSDN Two contrasting statements by the Donald Trump Administration in just a span of over five years, pretty...

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