Gateway Features
Ethiopia is a key ally in Africa
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Ethiopia (December 16-17), as part of a three-nation tour, has significantly strengthened India’s relations with two important regions – West Asia and East Africa, which are interrelated. The decision by the prime ministers of India and Ethiopia to elevate bilateral ties to a strategic partnership reflected their shared assessment that the current geopolitical turmoil requires the two nations to collaborate closely for a larger purpose. For India, Ethiopia's importance as a key African country read more
U.S.’ National Security Strategy 2025
Courtesy: US Embassy & Consulates in Italy
It is a practice for every President of the U.S. to bring out a National Security Strategy (NSS) and National Defence Strategy (NDS) almost a year into his term. President Donald Trump brought out an NSS and NDS in 2017, during his first term. In November 2025, he published the NSS for his second term. This paper aims to compare the NSS of both these Presidential terms. The NSS 2017, a 68-page document, highlighted nine issues. Its expressed requirement was read more
Energy over Ideology: 2026
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Renewable energy adoption will be much slower than what was being projected earlier, and China’s curbs on rare-earth magnets will slow down the adoption of electric vehicles. Oil will continue to fuel India’s economy in 2026 and beyond. read more
Japan in Bombay: trade, faith and community
Courtesy: Alamy
This chapter deals with the period of the first active commercial engagement between Bombay port, the city and its Presidency, with Imperial Japan’s port cities. It is a period beginning in the middle of the 19th century and concludes with the outbreak of the Second World War. It underlines the importance of this first modern commercial engagement between the two nations during the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, which were the first read more
Founding India’s Gateway House
Courtesy: Gateway House
A former diplomat and a journalist came together in 2009 to build what would become Mumbai’s first foreign policy think tank – Gateway House. It is India’s first women-founded think tank, and among the few globally established by two women. In this conversation with Akshobh Giridharadas of USISPF, co-founders Manjeet Kripalani and Neelam Deo reflect on Gateway House’s origins and the epiphany that India needed to shape global conversations with its own perspective, one that extended beyond New Delhi. 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
China’s expansionist nuclear programme aims to bolster its capabilities, so much so, that Beijing's predictions boast 2500 new warheads by 2030, thus rivalling the American and Russian arsenals. As the dragon quadruples its nuclear propensity, heralding the world to something greatly unstable – a tripolar nuclear system; nuclear peace seems a quite convoluted goal.
Book Reviews
Rajiv Bhatia explains how this book brings together perspectives on the geostrategy, geopolitics, and geoeconomics of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Edited by Chintamani Mohapatra, it features 16 essays by experienced yet young academics. It highlights how the world changed after 2020, the ‘Age of Polycrisis’, COVID-19, conflicts in West Asia and Europe, and other global flashpoints. The book offers analysis that seeks to reposition the Indo-Pacific as vital to India’s strategic interests.
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