Global ocean governance is at a turning point. While frameworks such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and other ...
Curated by Malancha Chakrabarty and Stelin Paul 2025 proved another landmark year for ORF's think tank excellence, with our diverse experts captivating readers across students, policymakers, academia, and industry through penetrating research and analysis. They delivered nearly 200 Issue Briefs and Occasional Papers over the year. In ...
Curated by Malancha Chakrabarty and Stelin Paul In a year shadowed by China's border provocations, AI-driven energy surges, and cascading global crises, ORF's books and monographs delivered unflinching foresight—arming readers with strategies for health resilience, youth diplomacy, sustainable tech, agile partnerships, and existential choices. From nearly ...
Curated by Aparna Roy COP30 in Belém, Brazil, marks a pivotal inflection point in the climate regime—a full decade since the Paris Agreement reset the world’s climate governance architecture around nationally determined contributions (NDCs), transparency, and collective ambition. As the first Global Stocktake (GST) reveals the ...
Curated by: Soma Sarkar With the climate rapidly changing, water emerges as both a frontline casualty and a critical solution. Scholarship on water has also shifted from viewing it as a material substance to seeing it as part of a system that links the social, political, ...
Curated by Lavanya Mani This short essay series explores the most pressing geopolitical, geoeconomic, and development challenges shaping the Indo-Pacific, framed through the five thematic pillars of the 2025 Jakarta Futures Forum: (1) SDGs and Beyond – Food and Health for All, (2) Maritime Security and ...
