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By Ammar Nainar
By extending concessionary loans to incentivize and settle trade in rupees, India’s central bank is learning from China’s experience in internationalizing its currency.
By Udaibir Das
What are the concerns attached to the G20's “Roadmap Towards Better, Bigger, and More Effective Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs)”?
By Vivek Mishra
With Trump returning to the White House as the 47th President of the United States, his second term are likely to vastly differ from his first in the case of foreign policies towards Ukraine and Israel.
By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji
What is IBSA and how can their consecutive G20 presidencies help further the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on a global scale?
By Dhruva Jaishankar
With fundamental changes in China's domestic politics, economy, security posture, and strategic position, can India-China relations resume from its pre-2020 ties?
By Caroline Arkalji
How can India’s transition to green energy ensure that new job opportunities are accessible to all workers, especially those in carbon-intensive industries?
By Karan Bhasin
With China’s economy slowing down, many emerging markets that supply critical raw materials for global value chains operating through China have become extremely vulnerable.
By Anneleen Roggeman
How are international institutions prioritizing cyber capacity and its potential contributions to global development and multilateral partnerships?
By Ammar Nainar
The Quad is not abdicating responsibility against China as some skeptics allege. Rather, China’s military, diplomatic, and economic coercion provides the rationale for many of the Quad’s initiatives.
By Andreas Kuehn and Jeffrey Bean
What costs and risks need to be taken into account when geopolitics are causing shifts in global supply chains for semiconductors?
By Dhruva Jaishankar
With recent conflicts in Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza, how do they impact India and its policy in the Middle East?
By Anit Mukherjee
What is the Global Digital Compact and how can it help nations integrate growing technology into their societies?
By Caroline Arkalji
How are Global South nations tackling the challenges that arise with rapid urbanization?
By Natalie Boyse
Despite India's recent rising presence in geopolitics, many Americans are not paying attention to the nation itself due to outdated knowledge and assumptions.
By Ammar Nainar
A more careful examination of India’s military exercises today shows how they are indicative of India’s new diplomatic partnerships and priorities.
By Anit Mukherjee
What is the United Nations General Assembly and why does its theme for 2024, the Summit of the Future, matter for globalization?
By Dhruva Jaishankar
The revival of the global economy will stem from multilateral efforts to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) despite indications pointing to increased economic competition.
By Medha Prasanna
Will the outcome of this November’s presidential election result in a large shift in the United States' climate and energy relationship with India, or will policy remain the same no matter who is leading the United States?
By Nihal Chauhan
Well within his first 100 days of his third term, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has already reaffirmed India-ASEAN relations with his most recent trip to Singapore as part of his Southeast Asia tour.
By Jeffrey Bean
While the CHIPS & Science Act of 2022 has boosted the United States' leadership in semiconductor technology, it has considerably lagged in doing so for STEM research. The reason? A lack of appropriated money, meaning the money is there but it has not been allocated yet.
By Andreas Kuehn
With the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election taking place in less than 2 months, a recap of the Biden administration's efforts to achieve a "latticework" of international partnerships with like-minded allies is necessary as we look to the future of trade and technology cooperation.
By Andreas Schumacher
The invention of the semiconductor chip has led to its integration in modern societies, economies, militaries, and consumer goods, and they are getting smaller by the day. However, does this diversity in chips constitute the need for a different perspective on policies?
By Satvik Pendyala
The revival of the Quad has yet to see success in international trade or more specifically rebalancing global supply chains. Could a Quad Technology Trade Agreement be the solution to the Quad's predicament while also increasing multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific?
By Anit Mukherjee
The lack of jobs and job creation has not only sparked the recent student protests in Bangladesh but also has raised concern among voters in the United States as the 2024 presidential election nears. How can both the United States and Bangladesh tackle the shortcomings of their national job markets for incoming youth?
By Anneleen Roggeman
Earlier this month, member states of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime agreed to adopt the first global convention against cybercrime after three years of negotiations. The convention will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September, ratifying its legitimacy in 40 countries.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions commenced their programs this month, indicating the few months left for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. But little has been said about the candidates' approach to American foreign policy, especially regarding the future of the United States' relationship with China.
By Ammar Nainar
Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Ukraine this week, amid the backdrop of an ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. But New Delhi and Kyiv have had a longer and wider association than many realize, dating back to the Soviet Union.