Amit Singh
The EUās expanding engagement with India, notably the proposed 'mother of all deals' free trade agreement, signals a strategic partnership. Yet without clear human-rights benchmarks, this cooperation risks legitimising Indiaās democratic backsliding and weakening the EUās own normative credibility, argues Amit Singh Read more
Sonia Sarkar
Four years after it cut all ties with Afghanistan,Ā theĀ Indian governmentās strategy towards the Taliban regime is undergoing a transformation. Sonia SarkarĀ arguesĀ that Indiaās deteriorating relationship with Pakistan appears to have promptedĀ this, and suggests it damages Indiaās pluralist reputationĀ Read more
Shivani Singh
Global South states have long advocated for nuclear disarmament, from the Bandung Conference to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Yet recent abstentions and muted positions on conflicts suggest waning commitment. Shivani Singh examines how multipolar dependencies shape these states' responses, and what it means for the nuclear order Read more
Ankita Mukherjee
Indiaās refusal to condemn Russiaās invasion of Ukraine challenges the norms of principled foreign policy. Ankita Mukherjee shows how, while claiming to defend sovereignty, India has deepened ties with Moscow and capitalised on discounted Russian oil. She argues this delicate balancing act signals a shift from Cold War non-alignment to pragmatic multi-alignment in a multipolar world Read more
Sterre Van Buuren
Nuclear weapons come with a hidden cost: they erode democracy. In every nuclear state, secrecy, executive powers and stifled debate cut the public off from their governmentās nuclear decision-making. Sterre van Buuren explains why this is ā and why citizens must still push for more accountability Read more
Sonia Sarkar
In May 2025 India launched a military assault against Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men.āÆ Putatively carried out in the name of avenging the victims' widows, Sonia Sarkar argues that it was laden with patriarchal symbolism, the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP failing to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment Read more
Ananya Sharma
In India, the bulldozer has emerged as an instrument of the strong state and a symbol of sovereign retribution. Bulldozer demolitions, argues Ananya Sharma, mark a shift towards punitive populism in which majoritarian desires supplant the rule of law Read more
Priya Vijaykumar Poojary
In 2018, the distinguished scholar Amitav Acharya proposed a 'global international relations' to challenge Western dominance in the discipline. Since then, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, and Anatolian schools of IR have emerged. But Priya Vijaykumar Poojary warns that these non-Western schools risk merely replacing existing Western ethnocentricity with new forms of hegemonic discourse Read more
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