International relations

The Indian Ocean’s waters reach 28 countries, together accounting for about 35% of the world’s population and 19% of the gross domestic product. Source: Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute

Can Indian Ocean region power global growth?

1 min read . 12 Oct 2018

China has transformed the region’s strategic landscape in just five years. Photo: Reuters

A challenging time for the Indo-Pacific

4 min read . 14 Mar 2018

Critics of the concept of soft power point out that unlike hard power, it cannot be measured. Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

India’s soft power push: just following a fad?

4 min read . 23 Feb 2018

Is China bribing its way to superpower status?

4 min read . 11 Jan 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Bloomberg

Narendra Modi likely to visit UAE for World Government Summit

2 min read . 06 Dec 2017

While all Quad participants are members of EAS, India still needs to become a member of Apec if New Delhi is to contribute to all three pillars of the Indo-Pacific architecture. Photo: AP

The emerging Indo-Pacific architecture

4 min read . 20 Nov 2017

This acrimonious war over disarmament is being fought through the votes for various resolutions in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly. Photo: iStock

Warring over disarmament in the UN

4 min read . 05 Nov 2017

China has maintained some presence in roads and dirt tracks existing between Batang La and Doka La for more than a decade. Photo: AFP

China’s road in Doka La is headed for Thimphu

5 min read . 11 Jul 2017

File photo. Chinese president Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference at the end of the Belt and Road Forum at the Yanqi Lake International Conference Center, Beijing, on 15 May 2017. Photo: AP

Locating China’s Obor in the global development debate

5 min read . 26 May 2017

In his maiden speech at the United Nations in 2014, Narendra Modi used the locution to reassert India’s fading case for reform of the Security Council. Photo: PTI

‘Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ for the 21st century

4 min read . 22 May 2017

Over the years, the Chinese government has tried desperately to head off a conflict situation from arising on the Korean peninsula. Photo: AP

Can China solve the North Korea problem?

5 min read . 26 Apr 2017

Narendra Modi certainly doesn’t believe in ‘submission’, but no Indian leader can any longer afford to turn his back on the world. Photo: PTI

Narendra Modi is a different nationalist than Putin or Trump

3 min read . 05 Apr 2017

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters that Xi Jinping would meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Reuters

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping to meet at Mar-a-Lago on 6-7 April

2 min read . 30 Mar 2017

US President Donald Trump. India does not have a free trade agreement with the US and negotiations over a bilateral investment treaty between the two countries is stuck over, among other things, the investor-state dispute system. Photo: AP

Caught between the dragon and the elephant

4 min read . 22 Mar 2017

The next chapter in Internet governance

4 min read . 07 Mar 2017

The reality of the India-China strategic dialogue

4 min read . 24 Feb 2017

American isolationism allowed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to wage aggressive war. Photo: Reuters

‘America First’ and global conflict next

4 min read . 04 Jan 2017

A close look at the TPP shows that it is an agreement which the US negotiated to achieve its strategic goals vis-à-vis China. Photo: Bloomberg

How Donald Trump may re-negotiate the TPP

5 min read . 30 Nov 2016

The emphasis of ‘Western’ frameworks in education is invaluable to understanding the world as it is today. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Bridging the deficit in ‘Western’ frameworks

4 min read . 22 Nov 2016

A file photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: AFP

China may be shifting its South Asia strategy

1 min read . 21 Nov 2016