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Across the Indo-Pacific, countries big and small are building up their military capacity through domestic production and imports.

Green buildings can become a strong driver of economic growth and the prerogative to “build back better.”

With the emergence of Squad, a new Pacific multilateral, the question whether the Quad should be militarised has resurfaced

Many countries across the world are harnessing disruptive technology to maintain technological superiority over their adversaries. Research and development (R&D) organisations are key to this task. In the defence sector, focused R&D drives critical innovations and product development. India continues to lag in defence technology and remains dependent on imports. A crucial impediment is long product development cycles. Under the cu

There is an urgent need for the appointment of a new commission, on the footsteps of the Sarkaria Commission and the Justice E Venkataramaiah Commission, to review Centre-State relations, and State-to-State relations.

This issue brief looks at the trends of regionalism and multilateralism, their importance and evolution in an age of problems without borders that require regional or global solutions.

This study discusses three major mega free trade agreements (the TPP, TTIP and the RCEP) and attempts to develop a strategy for India to navigate the repercussions engendered by these groupings and thereby safeguard India?s trade and sustain its economic growth.

China looms large in the trilateral in most matters from security to trade

Bill Clinton had gotten a lot of things right, here is what he got wrong.

Despite the current economic and political upheaval in Pakistan, the Sino-Pakistani strategic nexus remains stable

Like the LEMOA, there have been heated debates on COMCASA too.

Despite the recent allegations, India’s intelligence culture has been characterised by its conflict resolution strategies instead of resorting to ta

As France takes over the presidency, it aims to achieve an ambitious programme over the course of the next six months

Young people across the world today are facing multiple challenges: lost school years due to the pandemic-induced lockdowns, the looming climate crisis, increasingly dangerous virtual spaces, and food and energy security concerns triggered by the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This paper analyses the challenges facing the youths of the Commonwealth, where 60 percent of the combined population are under 30 years old, and explores the investments require

In the global urban context, cultural identity is becoming increasingly synonymous with the nature of prevalent collective activities.

Why is it that despite sharing significant commonalities, India and China remain trapped in a relationship that projects them as inevitable rivals? This paper examines the promise of these bilateral relations and attempts to sound the death knell to the old narrative.

Despite six months of Taliban’s catastrophic rule, the international community continues to turn a Nelson’s eye.

The Inspector Raj, expressed through the colonial, corrupt, and rent-seeking policy infrastructure, must be disassembled

In the laboratory of economic reforms, the Jan Vishwas Bill is an experiment. This decriminalisation vaccine to catalyse doing business is a long way

The Digital Silk Road (DSR), part of the Belt and Road Initiative, symbolises China’s approach to expanding information exchanges and digital cooperation with emerging markets and developing economies. Under the DSR, several private corporations and state-owned enterprises supported by Chinese state banks are offering inexpensive technological contracts and rapidly building digital infrastructure projects. This brief examines the operationalisa

Despite opposition President Barzani is standing firm on his decision to conduct the referendum as scheduled, hoping to realise Kurds' dream

With 23.5 per cent proposed salary hikes, everyone expects that the government will work more efficiently. But the hard performance criteria of the pr

Strident attacks by hardline right wing groups is not a phenomenon restricted just to the United States.

Efforts to resume and make up for the setback in mass immunisation for preventable childhood diseases must be ramped up

The surge of Myanmarese refugees in Thailand has made the need to reform the latter’s national refugee policy more pronounced

Nepali discomfort about the ongoing standoff between India and China can have important consequences.

The recommendations are based on a stakeholder consultation organised by ORF on 1 December 2022. Although the authors have made the best efforts to give voice to the concerns of various stakeholder groups, this is not a consensus document and does not attribute comments to, or claim to represent, the positions of any individual or organisation. All statements, assertions or factual errors are attributable only to ORF.

As the leading economy in the Union, Russia is yet to emerge as a strong economic player in Asia with looming concerns regarding overdependence on Chi

The stablecoins have not achieved full price stability, thus raising concerns about their credibility. Continued monitoring and proactive policymaking

Despite the varied opinions of the ASEAN countries with regard to AUKUS, it would have to learn to co-exist and cooperate on regional security issues

The financial products conceptualised so far are not yet catering to the needs of the poor affected by climate change, especially at the critical inte

India’s rising urbanisation in recent years has triggered unbridled construction activities to meet the needs of the growing populations in these cities. Not all of these constructions abide by existing laws, however, leading to adverse consequences on governance systems, the environment, people’s health, transportation services, and overall citizen well-being. In extreme cases, illegal constructions have resulted in loss of lives and propert

Great Power politics and a crumbling federal system implicate the Civil War in Ethiopia

Would the Global Gateway initiative help EU to reconfigure its role in the changing world order?

Defining safety in urban spaces as just one of physical protection is self-defeating as it presupposes the existence of only reactive action. The construction of safety in sheer physical terms reduces, and often completely eliminates, the possibility of proactive action.

On the sidelines of the trilateral Northeast Asian Summit in Tokyo, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak visited some of the worst affected areas in Fukushima and freely moved with the victims and publicly tasted vegetables and fruits to dispel the public fear about radiation.