IMEC map with source Courtesy: The China-Global South Podcast
19 June 2025

U.S.-China rivalry: Middle Powers’ playbook

In the current era of geopolitical uncertainty, the Middle Power states are deepening engagement with countries of the Global South while reducing their exposure to the U.S. and China. Manjeet Kripalani and Carlos Coelho spoke to Eric and Cobus from The China-Global South Podcast, on how countries like India and Brazil are navigating this increasingly contested world.

New Spotlight Magazine Courtesy: New Spotlight Magazine
19 June 2025

A case for South Asia energy connectivity

Building a robust engagement with India on energy can help offset some of the economic and political crises that most of India’s neighbours are facing. Smaller South Asian neighbours will benefit from cheaper electricity and oil, paving the way for greater regional economic cooperation.

QUAD Courtesy: Business Standard
19 June 2025

Reappraising QUAD post Pahalgam

There are partners and there are partners. India, a QUAD member, was attacked by terrorists from Pakistan in April. In a subsequent bilateral conflict the next month, Pakistan received strong political backing and military equipment from its strategic partner China. Despite agreements on countering terrorism and checking China, none of the QUAD countries came to India’s aid.

Website articles  (21) Courtesy: News Arena India
12 June 2025

G7 Summit: Plethora of opportunities

Canadian Prime Minister Carney can use the upcoming G7 summit he is hosting to advance the North-South dialogue and cooperation and also to discuss the strained bilateral with India. India can articulate the viewpoint of the Global South, stressing its conviction that the G7 is better served by constructively working with developing and emerging economies.

IMEC map with source Courtesy: Gateway House
11 June 2025

IMEC: more than just a corridor

The proposed IMEC corridor connecting India to Europe through the Gulf can be transformative, helping to reduce risks to the global movement of goods and data. It’s early days yet, and there are gaps to be filled in terms of missing infrastructure and overcoming a diplomatic rift.

Myanmar article Courtesy: X /@antonioguterres
28 May 2025

Quid pro quo for Myanmar’s humanitarian corridor

A proposed humanitarian corridor from Bangladesh to Myanmar’s suffering Rakhine state is the need of the hour. But Chief Advisor Yunus has linked it with repatriation of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, mixing up unrelated issues. This is a classic ploy to distract the public from his own shortcomings, and his single-minded focus to extend and legitimise his regime.

podcast MK Courtesy: Abhijit Chavda Podcast
27 May 2025

Emerging Middle Powers beyond U.S. and China

The rules-based world, perceived to be functional till last year, seems broken, giving way to an increasingly multipolar order. Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director, Gateway House discusses in the Abhijit Chavda podcast, how emerging middle powers like India, Brazil, and Indonesia to name a few, have the heft to rewrite the rules of global trade and reform, away from U.S. and China.

India Today (1) Courtesy: India Today
26 May 2025

India’s evolving defence doctrine

The Pahalgam attack has changed India’s strategic calculus. With Operation Sindoor, the country is moving towards a more assertive posture, consolidating its strategy around an evolving doctrine of Proactive Deterrence underpinned by Calibrated Coercive Capability. A strategic practitioner’s viewpoint is below.

Website articles  (17) Courtesy: Nayanima Basu
19 May 2025

India’s three-pronged war strategy

Operation Sindoor has established a “new normal” in India-Pakistan relations. It has also given the world a glimpse into the Narendra Modi government’s future strategy in countering terrorism supported by the Pakistani Army and ISI, and how New Delhi will manage the Kashmir dispute.

The New Indian Express Courtesy: The New Indian Express
19 May 2025

Post-Pahalgam diplomacy

Studying the reaction of key stakeholders to the India-Pakistan conflict, and how India’s diplomatic machine coped with it, is revealing. Some of the major powers like the U.S., raised the temperature, China expectedly stood by Pakistan while Russia once again proved a dependable friend. Unsurprisingly, South Asia had a consistently neutral stance toward the conflict.