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India’s Navy Is Already Supporting Regional ...

By Ammar Nainar

Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz resulting from the conflict between the United States and Israel, on the one hand, and Iran on the other, threaten to create another global energy crisis. India has many reasons to proactively take such action: the closure of the Strait of Hormuz risks exacerbating the country’s energy shortages and food insecurity.

India’s Navy Is Already Supporting Regional Security Around the Strait of Hormuz
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Winners and Losers from the Strait of Hormuz ...

By Mannat Jaspal

The only real winners will be those that draw lessons from the crisis and move quickly to build robust energy security frameworks — one that integrate securitization, resilience, and transition planning to safeguard the present and insulate the future.

Winners and Losers from the Strait of Hormuz Crisis
Energy & Climate
ORF America
What Venezuela Could Learn from Iraq's Oil ...

By Cauvery Ganapathy

In Venezuela’s case, as was the case with Iraq, it is the systematic domestic mismanagement of its resources coupled with inequities of political agency that diminished the value of its natural wealth. American engagement in Venezuela’s oil sector may soon demonstrate, like it did in the United States’ Iraqi sojourn, how deep-rooted these structural fractures are.

What Venezuela Could Learn from Iraq's Oil Export Challenges
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Four Barriers to Decarbonizing the Steel ...

By Caroline Arkalji and Telmen Altanshagai

In the coming decades, green steel will shape whether heavy industry can remain both competitive and environmentally-aligned. The remaining question is whether policy frameworks, financing mechanisms, and workforce strategies can move at the same pace.

Four Barriers to Decarbonizing the Steel Industry
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
The Iran War's Implications for the Gulf: Three ...

By Samriddhi Vij, Kabir Taneja, and Akram Zaoui

Ten days into the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, the conflict has entered a more entrenched phase. With air and maritime connectivity significantly disrupted and President Trump maintaining uncompromising rhetoric, Gulf leaderships find themselves navigating a precarious balance between containment and active self-defense. ORF Middle East experts offer their concise analysis on the latest developments.

The Iran War's Implications for the Gulf: Three Expert Perspectives

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How Australia, Canada, and India Can Reshape Critical Minerals Supply Chains

How Australia, Canada, and India Can Reshape Critical Minerals Supply Chains

By Holly Stevens and Siddharth Sharma

As demand for electric vehicles, battery storage, clean energy systems, and advanced technologies continues to accelerate, Australia’s resource base and mining history, Canada’s resource base as well as its mining and industrial capabilities, and India’s market scale and commitment to value-added manufacturing could support diversification across multiple stages of the value chain.

Cybersecurity as Economic Security: The Case for U.S.-India Coordination

Cybersecurity as Economic Security: The Case for U.S.-India Coordination

By Krishnaveni Palanivelu

Cybersecurity must be treated as a shared economic security challenge. By aligning standards, strengthening cooperation, and embedding cyber resilience into trade, infrastructure, and foreign policy, democracies like the United States and India can better protect their digital foundations and sustain long-term economic stability. 

Can India and Taiwan Cooperate on Submarines?

Can India and Taiwan Cooperate on Submarines?

By Benjamin Tkach and Vasabjit Banerjee

Submarine production difficulties affect the global marketplace and place a premium on domestic production. India’s pursuit of untested technologies elevates its risk, while Taiwan’s domestically produced system relies on foreign components. Both, therefore, have a lot to benefit from engineering and design cooperation in submarine production.  

Dharma, Just War Theory, and the U.S.-India Partnership

Dharma, Just War Theory, and the U.S.-India Partnership

By James Diddams

When Indians speak of dharma and Americans speak of responsibility to protect, they are not speaking from the same tradition, yet they are addressing the same basic problems: How should a political community understand itself as accountable for the use of power?

India-UK Trade Deal Sets a New Benchmark for India’s Digital Trade

India-UK Trade Deal Sets a New Benchmark for India’s Digital Trade

By Ashita Jain

The India-UK FTA reflects a significant shift in India’s digital trade approach. The commitments it makes, particularly on customs duties on electronic transmissions, data flows, and source code protection, will serve as benchmarks in India’s ongoing negotiations with the EU and the United States. 

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The Case for a Quad Technology Trade Agreement

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The Case for a Quad Technology Trade Agreement

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?

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