Issue 1 | India's World

Delhi's Grand strategy

Volume 1 Issue 1
January – February 2025

The Argument

Why is India’s East Restive?

Sreeradha Datta

The Iran War: Navigating India’s Multi-Front Crisis

Dealing with India’s China Challenge

India’s Paths To AI Power Will Be Many, Not One

The Indispensable Power: Why Russia Matters to India

Breaking Dependence: Enabling the Rise of India’s Defence Industry

Grand Strategy

Four Battlefronts: A Foreign Policy Outlook for 2026

Role of the military in India’s path to power

The US and China in Indian Grand Strategy

India’s Strategic Choices: Constrained and Getting Worse

Rajesh Rajagopalan

An Economic Strategy for India

Five Paradoxes in India’s Grand Strategy

Diplomatic History

In the Shadows of 1971: The Rise and Decline of the SSB

Vijayanta Sharma Pathak

U Nu and the Unquiet Birth of Burma

India’s Heritage Diplomacy Evolves in Nepal

Aleksandr Kuzmenchuk

Mohammad Mossadegh: ‘A Painful, Spectral Presence’

A Borobudur Sculpture and Debates about Ancient India’s Interface with Southeast Asia

T.C.A. Raghavan

75 Years of India–China Relations: Key Milestones

India’s World

Notebook

Notables

India’s World

The End of Assumed American Superiority

Covering India’s World: An MEA beat reporter remembers

Suhasini Haidar

Reporting India-Pakistan: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Power of Narratives

Theory

Dominance and Leadership: The Idea of Hegemony

Leading the Global South: Why and How Postcolonialism Manifests in Indian Foreign Policy

Mark Carney’s Theory of International Order

Tech-tonic shift: Is AI untheorizable?

The Great Nuclear Hypocrisy: The Crumbling Architecture of Technology Denial

Arindam Goswami

The Rise of Primacy: Theorising the Geopolitics of “America First”

China

India-Taiwan Ties after 30 Years: A Networked Society

Geetanjali Atri, Raj Kumar Sharma

Moreh’s New Role in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape

Golan Suanzamung Naulak, Dennis Lallienzuol

The Stilwell Road: A Story of War and Memory

Chamdam Tungkhang

The Dhaka Test: Washington and New Delhi’s Alternative to China in a New Bangladesh

China’s Strategic Arc Around India’s East

The Brahmaputra Paradigm: Balancing Hegemony and Himalayan Fragility

Uttam Kumar Sinha

Culture

Tawang Monastery: A Frontier of Faith, Geopolitics, and Culture

Junjun Sharma Pathak

Imperial Discovery of Tea in Assam

The Kohima War Cemetery: A Living Site Beyond History And Remembrance

RK Yaibiren Sana

The Stilwell Road: A Story of War and Memory

Chamdam Tungkhang

Hilsa Diplomacy: Where Rivers, Memory, and Power Converge

Tanushree Bhowmik

A Persian Civilisation, Made in Lucknow: How Lucknow absorbed and reworked a Persian inheritance

Mahrukh Chaudhry

Middle East

India and UNCLOS: Navigating the Strait of Hormuz Crisis with Principle and Pragmatism

Sarabjeet Singh Parmar

The President of Peace and His War of Choice

Right Side of Events. Wrong Side of History: The Pakistan Army’s Iran Mediation in Perspective

Iran War: US Neocons, the Israel Lobby, and a Quest for “Greater Israel”

A Persian Civilisation, Made in Lucknow: How Lucknow absorbed and reworked a Persian inheritance

Mahrukh Chaudhry

Resilience and Resistance in Persian Poetry

Folio

The Rise of Authoritarian Middle-Powers and What It Means for World Politics, by Maroe-Eve Desrosiers and Nic Cheeseman

Bilal Ahmad Tantray

The Durian Flavour: India, ASEAN and the Act East Policy, by Amb. Gurjit Singh

Sundaram Tiwari

American Shadow Over India, by L. Natarajan

The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day, by Daneesh Majid

China’s Quest for Military Supremacy, by Joel Wuthnow and Phillip C. Saunders

Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History, by Vali Nasr

Sreshtha Chakraborty

Tibet

Tawang Monastery: A Frontier of Faith, Geopolitics, and Culture

Junjun Sharma Pathak

The Tibet Question is far from Resolved Between India and China

The Dalai Lama, Mahabodhi, and India’s Buddhist Diplomacy

Satvik Pendyala

India must endorse the Dalai Lama’s statement on his succession

Balancing Faith and Geopolitics: Amitabh Mathur on Tibet’s Future and the Legacy of the Dalai Lamas

Junjun Sharma Pathak

Democracy in Exile: The Uncertain Fate of the Tibetan People

Law & Foreign Policy

Hedging the New Expropriation: A Political-Risk Bond for an Unstable World

Dhananjay Sahai, Prashant Khurana

Taking Stock:The Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Regulation in India

Arghya Sengupta, Jay Vinayak Ojha

Crafting a Legal Regime for India’s AI Ambitions

AI at the UN: From Access and Innovation to Governance and Security

Writing Global Rules for the Age of AI

Syed Akbaruddin

McDonald’s in Moscow: How Multinationals Manage Conflict

Prashant Khurana, Dhananjay Sahai

Gender

The Unravelling of Feminist Foreign Policy in Europe

Garima Shrivastava

Why India needs a Feminist Foreign Policy, Now

Tishya Khillare