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September 28, 2026

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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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Is the Iranian Government Collapsing?

By: Sofiqua Yesmin, Research Analyst, GSDN The question of whether the Iranian government is on the verge of collapse has been a recurring topic in...

Why Italy matters in European Geopolitics?

By: C Shraddha The post-World War II period saw the importance of Italy in the European context. The early 1950s witnessed the efforts of countries...

Between Missiles and Memory: Why the North Korea–Japan Standoff Is More Than a Security Crisis

By: Ahana Sarkar In recent months, people in Japan have become used to waking up to alerts warning of missiles flying overhead. These aren’t drills...

Simran Speaks: India vis-à-vis BRICS & SCO as the Global Equations Shift

By: Simran Sodhi, Guest Author, GSDN There has been a lot of debate within India of late about how relevant are multilateral institutions like BRICS...

Fault Lines in Belgrade: Serbia’s Deepening Crisis

By: Ahana Sarkar On June 13, 2025, protests erupted in Belgrade in response to leaked reports suggesting that the Serbian government was quietly negotiating territorial...

Why Egypt matters in the MENA Region?

By: Namya Sethi As a sociology student, I’ve often found myself captivated by Egypt’s unique position in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region....

Why Mainstream & Social Media Matter?

By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd), Editor, GSDN The morning prayer of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, which is the world-renowned Tri-Services training institution located...

Why Turkey matters in Global Geopolitics?

By: Shreya Dabral, Research Analyst, GSDN Turkey is considered as a strong nation when we hear about global geopolitics. Well, the significance arises from the...

The Iron Bond: US Patronage and Israeli Power

By: C Shraddha The existence of the United States-Israel relationship predates the statehood of the Jewish nation-state. On March 3, 1919, the 28th President of...

Beyond Convenience: The Dynamics of Pakistan-USA Relations

By: Ahana Sarkar Field Marshal Asim Munir’s recent visit to the United States marks a critical juncture in Pakistan-USA relations, coming at a time when...

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...

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