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The WTO dispute settlement system: An analysis of India’s experience and current reform proposals

International Affairs | Indian Foreign Policy | Multilateralism

Sep 02, 2019

The WTO dispute settlement system: An analysis of India’s experience and current reform proposals

Established in 1995, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement System (DSS) is used to resolve trade-related disputes between WTO member states. It has received over 500 complaints since its inception, and utilises both political negotiation and adjudication for dispute resolution. Today the DSS faces an unprecedented crisis due to US obstruction, which may render the system effectively dysfunctional by late 2019. It is likely tha

Aarshi Tirkey

The Wuhan summit and the India–China border dispute

Indian Foreign Policy | China Foreign Policy

Jun 26, 2018

The Wuhan summit and the India–China border dispute

The recent Wuhan summit between India and China has been called many things: from a “game changer” to a much needed “reset” in Indian-China relations. It has generated expectations in the two countries that they will avoid any clash due to miscalculation and error. This has strengthened the tradition that India and China have maintained since the Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement of 1993, of resolving problems bilaterally through dia

Manoj Joshi

The Xi Plan: The Political Factors Driving China’s COVID-19 Strategy

International Affairs | Domestic Politics and Governance

Dec 19, 2022

The Xi Plan: The Political Factors Driving China’s COVID-19 Strategy

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to promote a political model with centralisation and one-party rule at the core to achieve economic growth and stability. This brief assesses the extent to which the CCP’s policymaking mechanisms and internal politics have influenced China’s strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kalpit A Mankikar

The year ends, but the chaos may just be beginning

International Affairs

Dec 31, 2014

The year ends, but the chaos may just be beginning

2014 by far has been the most chaotic year in international politics, since the end of the Cold War. The Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East threaten to upturn borders settled for close to a century. Europe is in the throes of an unexpected tussle with Moscow. In the South and East China seas, China's aggressiveness is too clear now to be ignored.

The Year India Engaged The World On Its Own Terms

International Affairs

Dec 28, 2023

The Year India Engaged The World On Its Own Terms

Harsh V. Pant

Domestic Politics and Governance | National Politics

Dec 31, 2014

The year of the 'chaiwallah'

Narendra Modi's dilemma is palpable. Emotionally and intellectually, he is very much part of the Sangh Parivar. But as the chief minister of Gujarat he has grown and outgrown the narrow confines of ideology and understands the virtues and compulsions of pragmatism.

Manoj Joshi

The Year That Exposed Chinese Vulnerabilities

International Affairs | China Foreign Policy

Dec 15, 2023

The Year That Exposed Chinese Vulnerabilities

Xi seems to have overplayed his hand, leading to a significant realignment, resulting in a pushback at a time when his governance style has come under scrutiny

Harsh V. Pant | Kalpit A Mankikar

The Yerevan Primer: A World in Transition

International Affairs | Multilateralism

Sep 10, 2024

The Yerevan Primer: A World in Transition

Kabir Taneja | Natalie Boyse

The zero-poverty destination comes closer

Indian Economy | Development

Jul 10, 2018

The zero-poverty destination comes closer

Much needs to be done and our destination is still several countries away — the 73 million Indians living in extreme poverty today add up to more than the populations of Thailand, France and the UK.

Gautam Chikermane | Guillermina French

The ‘Green’ in Delhi’s Draft Master Plan: Weighed and Found Wanting

Urbanisation | Sustainable Development

Dec 27, 2021

The ‘Green’ in Delhi’s Draft Master Plan: Weighed and Found Wanting

With increasing awareness of the role that a healthy and clean environment plays in the well-being of societies, governments are adopting environment-friendly approaches in the conduct of development activities. This brief examines the environment planning proposals contained in the draft Master Plan for Delhi (MPD) for the period 2021-41. Although the MPD proposes many new ideas to improve prevailing conditions as well as a framework to monitor

Rumi Aijaz

The ‘QuadFather’: The Legacy of Shinzo Abe and the Quad

International Affairs | Maritime Security | China Military

Aug 16, 2023

The ‘QuadFather’: The Legacy of Shinzo Abe and the Quad

Before the rise of Xi Jinping—before the Beijing Olympics and the South China Sea tensions and the China-India border crisis—the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had already sensed that a rising China would pose daunting challenges to its neighbours and the regional order. This brief argues that without Abe, there would likely have been no ‘Quad’ grouping joining Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. His re

Jeff M. Smith

The ‘Smart Economics’ of Moving Women from the Private to the Public Sphere

Economics and Finance | Gender | Sustainable Development

Mar 07, 2024

The ‘Smart Economics’ of Moving Women from the Private to the Public Sphere

Despite advancements in legislation and representation over the last decades, women continue to face barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare, legal protection against violence, and leadership roles. In the economic sphere, gender disparities persist in labour force participation, job sectors, wages, and unpaid care work. Women are constrained in participating in the labour market as their social role remains attached to domestic

Gala Díaz Langou | Sofía Fernández Crespo

International Affairs | Domestic Politics and Governance

Jun 23, 2021

Theocracy and Polls: The Iran Way

While the supreme leader is there for life (or till he chooses to retire), the president is limited to two four-year terms, defining where the balance of power rests between them

| Rakesh Sood

International Affairs | Indian Foreign Policy | Great Power Dynamics | US Foreign Policy

Apr 28, 2021

There Are No Winners in Afghanistan

| Jeff M. Smith

There cannot be any talk of a humiliation of Greece, says EU Ambassador

International Affairs | Economics and Finance

Jul 21, 2015

There cannot be any talk of a humiliation of Greece, says EU Ambassador

Ambassador of the European Union to India, Dr. Joao Cravinho, admits that the current problem is "big" and it is "about the EU project", but he also believes that "the EU has the strength to deal with Greece" and that it has come out stronger after every crisis it has been facing in the past.

Energy Access

There have been $2.5 billion worth of NFT transactions so far - Ashok Venkateswaran

Oct 21, 2021

There is a change in US attitude to South Asia. India should leverage the moment

Indian Foreign Policy | Great Power Dynamics | US Foreign Policy

Oct 14, 2021

There is a change in US attitude to South Asia. India should leverage the moment

This is a transformative period in the US-India relationship. New Delhi should be more self-confident in its ability to shape the trajectory of this engagement

Harsh V. Pant

There is a need to reimagine the way we think about our coastal commons

Climate Change

Jun 10, 2021

There is a need to reimagine the way we think about our coastal commons

Vikrom Mathur

There is an absence of a strategic mindset: Ex-NSA

Defence and Security | Indian Defence | China Military

Nov 18, 2015

There is an absence of a strategic mindset: Ex-NSA

India's former National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan thinks that challenges posed by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor were far greater, as it directly impinged on India's sovereignty and security. He feels that this is a far graver issue than the India-China border dispute.

International Affairs | Neighbourhood | Defence and Security | Terrorism

Feb 14, 2014

There is an insurgency in FATA

Far too many times, states make the mistake of not recognising that they are confronted with insurgencies. Fearing the supposed legitimising effect of affording 'miscreants' the title of insurgents, they prefer to describe violent movements as law and order problems, situation, the troubles, and of course, terrorism.

There is more to Tamil Nadu apart from 'Sri Lankan issue'

International Affairs | Neighbourhood | Indian Foreign Policy

Mar 26, 2013

There is more to Tamil Nadu apart from 'Sri Lankan issue'

In Tamil Nadu, the inspiration and inputs for the protestors come not from Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka, but from their Diaspora groups whose linkages to the LTTE are discernible.

| N. Sathiya Moorthy

There's a need to end teenage pregnancies in India, it's harming the national economy

Healthcare

Jan 14, 2020

There's a need to end teenage pregnancies in India, it's harming the national economy

Teenage pregnancy is almost double in rural areas, 9.2%, as compared to urban, 5%, in India.

Shoba Suri

There's A New Negotiating Table In Town: Middle East

International Affairs

Feb 19, 2025

There's A New Negotiating Table In Town: Middle East

Kabir Taneja

Theresa Ndavi
Theresa Ndavi is a senior economist at the Palladium Groups Health Policy Plus Project. She has over seven years of expertise working across Africa in statistics and economic modelling for health social and development policy.

There’s a history to opposition towards an Asian NATO

International Affairs

Nov 05, 2024

There’s a history to opposition towards an Asian NATO

The demand for an Asian NATO remains negligible in Southeast Asia. This is because most countries are convinced that a multilateral security architecture will only elevate regional insecurities, and make them subservient to great power contestations

Abhishek Sharma

International Affairs

Jun 30, 2017

These troubled waters

The Qatar crisis unfolded soon after the Riyadh summit of Muslim countries, attended by President Trump. Iran was the whipping boy at the Riyadh summit.

Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty

Jan 27, 2015

They link power, politics and business

Much in the manner that the Sino-American dﾂtente transformed the Asian balance of power in the 1970s, the construction of a strong strategic partnership between India and America is bound to change the Asian geopolitical order and rejig the regional alignments.

Neighbourhood | Defence and Security | Terrorism | Indian Defence

Feb 27, 2019

They were mirages. And they were real

What has happened in Balakot is a punitive strike against known camps of terrorists — especially Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Vikram Sood

THIBAULT FOURNOL
Thibault Fournol is a Research Fellow at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS) in Paris where he coordinates the Observatory of Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific.

Things are looking up for Indo-China ties

International Affairs | Indian Foreign Policy | Defence and Security | China Foreign Policy

Apr 16, 2013

Things are looking up for Indo-China ties

India need not bite the bait, it can use the space created for pushing its own agenda with China which includes resolving our border dispute, getting the Pakistani monkey off our backs and getting better terms of trade from the Chinese. China is unlikely to yield anything easily, but if the emerging Indo-Pacific geopolitics provides an opportunity, New Delhi would be foolish to look the other way.

Manoj Joshi