By Sadiq Amini
Is Japan’s continued engagement with Afghanistan, especially with development projects, furthering the legitimacy of Taliban rule?
Japan shouldn’t work with the Taliban, not even to build schools
Polls to Policy: Energy and Climate Cooperation after the United States and India’s 2024 Elections
Indo-Pacific Region Braces for Change, Opportunity With New U.S. Administration
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Why should Indo-Pacific nations pay attention to the U.S. presidential election and what will a change in leadership mean for existing partnerships?
Building Resilient Supply Chains: The Case of Semiconductors
India’s Indo-Pacific Reorientation
Revolutionising and rebalancing China’s financial sector
By Udaibir Das
How should China refine its financial reform strategy to better align with its economic ambitions and responsibilities?
The Taliban and IS-K May Not Be Opposed After All
By Sadiq Amini
With the Taliban's return to power, Afghanistan is prone to rise of international terrorist groups just three years after the United States' withdrawal.
Third Plenum: China’s unending pursuit of stability
By Udaibir Das
The decisions from the 20th National Congress and the Third Plenum collectively represent significant strides in reinforcing the financial sector’s role as China recalibrates its growth model.
The UK’s National Wealth Fund: A Guiding Beacon or a Lost Mirage? Strengthening Governance to Empower the UK’s Future
By Udaibir Das
The UK is poised to make a significant impact with the National Wealth Fund (NWF), a fund designed to spearhead its green transition and support sustainable growth. Will the UK’s NWF be a guiding economic beacon or just a political mirage?
South-South Climate Finance Cooperation
The Power of the Private Sector: Boosting Climate Resilience
By Udaibir Das
The IMF’s RST is a significant step forward in mobilising climate finance, focused on leveraging private sector involvement. By learning from the RST’s successes and challenges, other international efforts can enhance their strategies to attract private capital, creating a more sustainable and resilient global economy.
Ensuring Continuity in the U.S.-India Energy Relationship through Cooperation on Climate
India's Role in Diversifying Global Clean Energy Supply Chains
Ongoing armed conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and a fractured trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, mean the energy transition cannot take economic integration and its accompanying benefits for granted.
Special Report
By Raj Sawhney, Shayak Sengupta, and Gregory Wischer
Editor: Shayak Sengupta
Modi’s Re-election: A Chance to Revitalize Afghanistan-India Relations
By Sadiq Amini
These days, Afghan democrats need a champion, and India, under Modi’s leadership, could be that champion – if New Delhi can correct course on its Afghanistan policy.
India’s Foreign Assistance: Trends, Processes, and Priorities
Invisible puppeteer: a call for debt management reform
By Udaibir Das
To effectively manage debt and all liabilities, a top-down, country-wide reform is necessary to move towards a comprehensive liability management function.
Air pollution mortality from India's coal power plants: unit-level estimates for targeted policy
By Kirat Singh, Tapas Peshin, Shayak Sengupta, Sumil K Thakrar, Christopher W Tessum, Jason D Hill, Inês M L Azevedo and Stephen P Luby
Absolute annual mortality ranges from less than 1 to over 650 deaths/year across units, and the mortality intensity of generation varies from under 0.002 to 0.43 deaths/GWh.
Air quality, health, and equity impacts of vehicle electrification in India
By Tapas Peshin, Shayak Sengupta, Sumil K Thakrar, Kirat Singh, Jason Hill, Joshua S Apte, Christopher W Tessum, Julian D Marshall and Inês M L Azevedo
Higher increases in pollution exposure are seen in scheduled castes/tribes, poor, and rural populations particularly in high coal production states.
Reforming the UNSC Remains a Tough Task
By Dhruva Jaishankar
But the biggest obstacle remains China. China alone among the P-5 has not voiced support for the expansion of permanent UNSC seats but often hides behind others in negotiations.
Cyber Stakeholders: ORF America's Contributions to Multilateralism at the UN Open-Ended Working Group
Contribution from the Cyberspace Cooperation Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation America in the context of the seventh substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 (March 2024).