What the India-EU Free Trade Agreement implies about the future of international trade has wider ramifications. States are turning to regulatory coalitions as sanctions and tariffs increasingly supersede global rules. The deal with the EU is a form of strategic hedging for India.  It does not signal alignment against Washington. Rather, it…

What is being done to the Aravallis displays much more than deforestation that extends far beyond Rajasthan and northwestern India. If hills can be eroded through redefinition, forests can be fragmented through classification, water bodies can be diminished through measurement, then survival can be denied through legality. The states are acting…

Putin’s 2025 visit to New Delhi was a strategic demonstration of India’s contemporary foreign policy, not a sentimental reunion. For India, multipolarity is a toolkit — a defense built on diverse partnerships, institutional investments, and internal resilience, not an abstract idea. Yet a shield can fail if it is brittle or hollow. To ensure…

The repressive nature of the Taliban government along with the absence of a credible international enforcement mechanism for human rights have left Afghan women in despair. Publicly rejecting the ICC ruling and lack of enforcement mechanism of such organizations might set an example to other ideologically resistant countries that global norms…