Gateway Features
New life for IMEC
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During August and September, the Houthis, the armed militant group in Yemen, hit several ships, ports and oil installations in Saudi Arabia, disrupting oil traffic from the Red Sea. In early September, drones launched from Iraq hit and shut down the Saudi East-West pipeline, which moves part of Saudi Arabia’s oil output to Red Sea ports. Since the start of the U.S.-Iran war, which has disrupted oil flows from the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia had relied on the Red Sea read more
Ethiopia’s crises could redraw Horn of Africa
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Ethiopia is in anew crisis that could possibly reorder the Horn of Africa, already fractured by several conflicts. The current catastrophe is not merely a resurgence of the civil war in Tigray. The renewed insurgency of this September has brought together seven varied ethnic militias that were often at loggerheads but which have now come together under the name Alliance for Survival with the stated aim of ousting the elected government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa. They read more
MahaVISTAAR: Scaling Agricultural AI
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MahaVISTAAR is an agricultural advisory service run by the Department of Agriculture in Maharashtra, India’s most industrialised state. A farmer can ask a question by voice or text about crops, pests, weather, market prices or government schemes and receive a response in an accessible language. The system searches trusted agricultural and government sources, returns a short location-aware answer, and identifies where the information came from. The platform builds on an extension system that already has substantial institutional infrastructure. Maharashtra’s 2025 read more
A new actor in Israel’s 2026 election
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The State of Israel will have its national elections for the next Prime Minister on 27 October this year. Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest serving Prime Minister, is contesting again for the top job. He faces several odds this time. First, his judicial ‘reforms’ – a controversial set of bills to alter the judicial appointment system and to limit the judicial review system of the Supreme Court. In 2022, before the Hamas attacks, it created a domestic uproar among the masses, which read more
Research
India and Indonesia have a comprehensive strategic relationship built on their ancient and modern histories, and a flourishing relationship sustained by trade, economic exchange and people-to-people contact. The India-Indonesia Track 1.5 Dialogue, hosted by Gateway House and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, aims to provide policy recommendations to promote innovation and navigate evolving governance issues through bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
Foreign Affairs
Not long ago in the sweep of history, countries that had once been buried behind the Iron Curtain, and even some Soviet republics, were transformed into members of the solidly democratic club. Some of those that weren’t, such as Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, experienced mass revolts against rigged elections and corrupt misrule amid widespread public yearning to join the West. Free trade was again celebrated as an instrument of peace; Kant’s “democratic peace theory” enjoyed a revival.
Book Reviews
In this book, C. Raja Mohan analyses Asia’s shifting political, economic, military, and technological balance, with particular focus on U.S.-China and India-China relations. He argues that India’s rise from a middle power to an emerging great power will require stronger hard power, diplomatic creativity, economic vitality, and domestic consensus. Yet, amid tensions over tariffs, Russian oil, Gaza, and the U.S.-Iran conflict, India’s strategic path remains challenging.
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