This study employs a longitudinal comparative method (2018–2024) to examine if India, supported by South Korean partnerships, can diversify ASEAN’s electronics and telecom supply chains away from China, revealing selective competitive advantages despite persistent Chinese regional dominance.
This study explores the historical evolution of China–Africa economic relations, tracing their transformation from political solidarity to strategic economic partnership. It evaluates how shifting Chinese economic priorities have influenced Africa’s development through trade, infrastructure investment, industrialisation, and long-term economic cooperation.
This paper presents a comparative analysis of BRICS and the QUAD, examining their distinct roles in shaping a multipolar international order. By analyzing India’s dual membership, it highlights how contemporary global governance relies on issue-based cooperation and strategic hedging.
As rising seas, extreme weather, and environmental degradation displace millions, international law remains tethered to outdated definitions of persecution. This paper examines the legal vacuum confronting climate refugees and the urgent need for a more inclusive and equitable global protection framework.
Why do religions that look so alike produce such different political outcomes across Southeast Asia? This paper argues that religion is never a fixed force, it is a “strategic grammar”: a shared vocabulary of belonging, legitimacy and threat that leaders draw on selectively, shaped by history, institutions and regional norms. The same tradition can justify exclusion in one state and negotiation in another, revealing religion not as destiny, but as a language leaders learn to speak differently.
This paper examines the causal architecture of the ongoing West Asia conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran, and its cascading effects on global energy markets and India’s energy security. With crude oil import dependency reaching nearly 89 percent in FY 2023–24, India remains acutely vulnerable to disruptions along the Strait of Hormuz. The paper argues that the resulting LPG supply shock stems from calculated escalation rooted in four interlocking causes: Iran’s contested nuclear ambitions, the collapse of the JCPOA, militarization dynamics seen in the Twelve-Day War, and the theoretical relationship between petrostates and militarized interstate disputes — situating India’s predicament within a condition of “dual energy dependency.”
This paper examines India’s export potential in the context of the changing global trade landscape shaped by the “China Plus One” strategy and global supply chain diversification. It aims to evaluate whether India possesses the structural, institutional, and policy capacity to emerge as a competitive manufacturing alternative to China by analysing export trends, policy initiatives, logistics, and integration into global value chains. Using a mixed-method approach and a comparative case study of Vietnam, the study finds that while India has made sector-specific gains, particularly in electronics and pharmaceuticals, persistent structural constraints continue to limit broad-based manufacturing competitiveness and export-led growth.
A co-authored research paper during internship in Feb Cohort 2026
This paper examines the reverse migration of Indian blue-collar workers from Gulf countries, highlighting causes such as nationalization policies and geopolitical instability, while analyzing the economic, social, and legal hardships migrants face during and after return, and proposing stronger policy interventions and GCC cooperation.
De-dollarisation functions less as a genuine monetary exit strategy and more as a strategic signal — a costly, observable action projecting political resolve while nations quietly maintain underlying dependence on the US dollar.