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The River Has Outgrown the Treaty: Why the Ganges Pact Needs More Than a Renewal

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction On 12 December, thirty years of water diplomacy between India and Bangladesh runs out. The real danger is not...

Without a Handshake: Seven Decades of China and Bhutan Edging Closer

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN INTRODUCTION Bhutan and China have never exchanged ambassadors. Yet tourists, students, traders and delegations keep crossing the gap, mostly by...

Six Years to a Handshake: How India and Europe Arrived at a Defence Partnership

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN INTRODUCTION The EU-India Security and Defence Partnership, signed in January 2026, did not come out of nowhere. It is the...

Burn It or Sort It: Why India’s Waste-to-Energy Push Starts at the Kitchen Bin

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN INTRODUCTION  Incinerators are only as good as what is fed into them. Four decades of Delhi's experience, from Timarpur to...

India’s Chabahar Deadlock: How New Delhi can Resolve it?  

By : Sourishree Ghosh, Research Analyst, GSDN Why is India's Gateway to Central Asia stuck?   The geopolitical deadlock is a combined factor of the regional crisis...

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Will Trump’s Peace Plan Last in the Middle East?

By: Prachi Kushwah, Research Analyst, GSDN When former United States President Donald J. Trump unveiled his “Peace to Prosperity” plan on January 28, 2020, the...

Current status of IMEC: Cause of Concern?

By: Sanjay Mummana, Research Analyst, GSDN The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) was among the most ambitious international connectivity projects announced in the recent years....

Will the Korean Peninsula ever see Peace?

By: Shreya Dabral, Research Analyst, GSDN The Korean Peninsula is also still one of the most delicate geopolitical hotspots of the modern world. Several decades...

Taliban vs Indian Women

By: Simran Sodhi, Guest Author, GSDN The visit of the Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to India, has been an opportunity for India to...

Effects of the Trump Tariff War on India

By: Gayathri Pramod, Research Analyst, GSDN In 2025, the United States sharply escalated trade pressure on India through a series of tariff measures that culminated...

India’s Strategic Evolution: The Shift from Global Rule-Taker to Multi-Vector Rule-Shaper

By: Hridbina Chatterjee India's foreign policy has gone through a significant change—transitioning more away from "Strategic Equidistance” to "Multi-Vector Engagement." For decades, New Delhi -...

Is the European Union in Chinese Grip?

By: Prachi Kushwah, Research Analyst, GSDN The European Union (EU) is today in a very critical crossroad with the People’s Republic of China. In the...

India’s ‘Neighbourhood First Policy’ needs an Urgent Re-think

By: Simran Sodhi, Guest Author, GSDN Even as Nepal seems to calm down and stabilize, the recent upheaval in the Himalayan Kingdom has left India...

As South Asia slips, India stands Strong

By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd), Editor, GSDN South Asia with 25% of the world’s population with 2.04 billion and comprising India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives,...

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...

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