Energy & Climate
ORF America
IBSA offers Indonesia a Stronger Global South ...

By Piyush Verma

This diplomatic moment offers an opportunity built on the India-Indonesia relationship: closer cooperation with the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum, or IBSA.

IBSA offers Indonesia a Stronger Global South Role
Special Report
ORF America
ORF Global Quarterly: Energy and Tech: Powering ...

Edited Volume

By Andreas Kuehn, Cauvery Ganapathy, Piyush Verma, Parul Bakshi, Lydia Powell, Gopalika Arora, Siddharth Yadav, Amoha Basrur, Pranoy Jainendran, Prateek Tripathi, and Sauradeep Bag

Editors: Sharon Stirling and Eszter Karacsony

ORF Global Quarterly: Energy and Tech: Powering the Future
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
India and Taiwan’s evolving entente ...

By Benjamin Tkach and Vasabjit Banerjee

We evaluate cooperative steps that both India and Taiwan have taken in the defense arena, demonstrating how mutual antagonist China, economic ties, and budding security coordination are creating an entente.

India and Taiwan’s evolving entente commerciale: trade and informal defense cooperation between Taiwan-India
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
India’s defence export rise opens a door for ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar

The new joint defense declaration between India and Australia articulated a more ambitious objective of defense industrial cooperation, including to “develop arrangements for advanced defense science and technology collaboration.” This may appear challenging, but India has made remarkable developments in its defense industrial capabilities over the past five years. These offer little-appreciated opportunities for many of its partners, including Australia.

India’s defence export rise opens a door for Australia
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Beyond the NZ-India free trade agreement: What ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar

A world in which freedom of navigation or energy supplies can be imperiled by the actions of others will require more international partnerships. A consolidation of relations between the governments of India and New Zealand makes eminent sense in this context. While an FTA is a welcome development, it remains just one step toward what can be a much more broad-based and mutually-beneficial partnership.

Beyond the NZ-India free trade agreement: What comes next?

Multilateral Reform

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Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: Multilateral Solutions for Energy, Defense, and Semiconductor Supply Chains

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Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: Multilateral Solutions for Energy, Defense, and Semiconductor Supply Chains

Background Paper No. 38

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Dhruva Jaishankar

Why the UAE’s OPEC exit signals a deeper recalibration of state autonomy

Why the UAE’s OPEC exit signals a deeper recalibration of state autonomy

By Udaibir Das

More moves of this kind should be expected, extending beyond energy into critical minerals, technology standards, industrial policy, and cross-border finance. The UAE’s decision is not an outlier. It is a marker — not of fragmentation, but of redefinition.

Trevor Manuel report: Africa’s post-G20 Bretton Woods moment?

Trevor Manuel report: Africa’s post-G20 Bretton Woods moment?

By Udaibir Das

The Trevor Manuel G20 Africa Expert Panel Report reframes Africa’s constraints as a single system of mispricing, debt compression and governance asymmetry. Its proposals for refinancing, collective bargaining and International Monetary Fund quota reform mark the first coordinated attempt to shift power within the international financial architecture.

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