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Evaluating the 2026 India–EU Free Trade Agreement
Ashutosh Nagda. · 15 Feb, 2026 · #5904 · Commentary
After nearly two decades of negotiations, India and the EU announced the successful conclusion of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations during the state visit of the President of the European Council, António Luís Santos da Costa, and the Pre ...
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The Merz Visit and Strategic Realism in the India-Germany Partnership
Ashutosh Nagda. · 20 Jan, 2026 · #5900 · Commentary
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to India on 12-13 January marked his first trip to Asia since his inauguration as Chancellor in May 2025. The visit also commemorated 75 years of diplomatic ties and 25 years of strategic partnership between ...
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US, China, EU, and the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition
Tapan Bharadwaj.. · 30 Aug, 2024 · #5880 · Commentary
The US and the EU have both recently announced punitive tariffs on electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean energy equipment imports from China. Canada is set to follow suit. The West is clearly determined to challenge China's domination in clean ener ...
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East Asia Compass
The Dangers of China’s Approach to Peace Mediation
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 27 Aug, 2024 · #5879 · Commentary
China recently invited representatives from 14 Palestinian groups for reconciliation talks; the meeting was held on on 21-24 July in Beijing. These talks were meant to be for ‘peacemaking’ in West Asia. Participants signed a Beijing Declaration, ...
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The China-Russia Challenge to India-EU Relations
Siddharth Anil Nair. · 31 May, 2023 · #5851 · Commentary
India’s
relations with the EU and its members have intensified over the past few years.
These relationships are a critical element of contemporary Indian foreign
policy—but they aren’t without their challenges. China and Russia, individually ...
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The Strategist
The Nord Stream Affair: A Coup de Grâce to Perpetuate Proxy War?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 27 Apr, 2023 · #5846 · Commentary
On 26 September 2022, a Norwegian
Navy Long Range Maritime Patrol (LRMP) aircraft, on routine surveillance
mission, laid a sonar buoy field south of the Danish Island of Bornholm. This
was seemingly to surveil the underwater space in the region of ...
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Human Rights and Geopolitics: World Opinion on the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict
Ani Yeremyan. · 27 Dec, 2022 · #5840 · Commentary
While
international attention is occupied by Russian violations in and of Ukraine, there
is a conflict taking place between Armenia and Azerbaijan, less than 1,500 km
away. This article explores international responses to Azerbaijan’s human
rig ...
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The Strategist
The Looming Winter of Discontent: Who is Winning the War in Ukraine?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 26 Oct, 2022 · #5837 · Commentary
Impact and Veracity of Social MediaThe
widespread popularity of social media, despite its loud and frequently boorish
content, has made the study of events that form historical processes a disarrayed
function of the common, rather than the orderly ...
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Russia’s Cyberwar Against Ukraine: The Role of Cyber in Interstate Conflict
Pieter-jan Dockx. · 21 Oct, 2022 · #5836 · Commentary
Since the Maidan
Revolution in 2014, Ukraine has been subject to an unprecedented
barrage of cyberattacks. Russian government-linked hackers infiltrated
Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure, interrupting supplies in a
first-of-its-kind attack. ...
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The Legal Ramifications of Political Rhetoric: Genocide in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Shivangi Seth. · 30 Sep, 2022 · #5833 · Commentary
Few words
in the realm of international politics are more loaded than ‘genocide’. Six
months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, evidence of mass killings,
executions, and rape have poured out of the country. These have sparked allegations
o ...
