Economic Development
ORF America
High Oil Prices Create an Opportunity for the ...

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

If implemented effectively, the Global Biofuels Alliance could help position biofuels not simply as a short-term response to supply disruptions, but as a more strategic pillar of long-term energy security, industrial development, and energy transitions.

High Oil Prices Create an Opportunity for the Global Biofuels Alliance
Foreign Policy & Security, ORF Global Quarterly V1
ORF America
Global South in the Crossfire: Strategic ...

By Soumya Bhowmick and Arya Roy Bardhan

For countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the challenge is no longer simply how to engage Washington or Beijing diplomatically, but how to preserve developmental autonomy in an environment where great-power competition is restructuring markets, supply chains, and industrial choices.

Global South in the Crossfire: Strategic Competition and Managed Interdependence
Foreign Policy & Security, ORF Global Quarterly V1
ORF America
Russia-China Defence and Security Partnership: ...

By Aleksei Zakharov

China is carefully balancing its position on the war in Ukraine, offering Russia targeted support while avoiding direct military involvement in the form of supplying lethal weapons or deploying troops. Similarly, Moscow would like to avoid getting entangled in China’s conflicting relations with India, Japan, Vietnam, or the United States. This cautious approach on both sides imposes a clear ceiling on their engagement and leaves limited prospects for an alliance-like partnership in the future.

Russia-China Defence and Security Partnership: Intensification Amid Constraints
Technology Policy, Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Securing Access to Frontier AI: The Case for an ...

By Rudra Chaudhuri

There is a need for an architecture, such as a Trusted AI Corridor, which can help mitigate the risk that regulators in both the United States and India take steps that could roll back years of investment in a deepening technology partnership.

Securing Access to Frontier AI: The Case for an India–U.S. Trusted Corridor
Foreign Policy & Security, ORF Global Quarterly V1
ORF America
Latin America: Navigating the Turbulence

By Vasabjit Banerjee

China’s economic and military presence in Latin America is expanding, prompting the United States to pursue countermeasures. Other extra-regional actors, ranging from the European Union to countries such as India, are simultaneously deepening their engagement with the region. The United States could strategically leverage these relationships to reinforce its own position.

Latin America: Navigating the Turbulence

Foreign Policy & Security

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Trump’s April 2 announcement has already roiled financial markets, and the global economy will continue to be adversely affected both by the implementation of tariffs and by uncertainty as negotiations proceed. But while there will be no immediate winners, some parties appear relatively better off.

U.S.-India Cooperation in the Indian Ocean

U.S.-India Cooperation in the Indian Ocean

By Ammar Nainar

In a signal of the United States’ burden-sharing efforts, the Indian Ocean region was featured eight times in the latest U.S.-India joint statement between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and U.S. president Donald Trump. To India and the United States, the Indian Ocean remains vital for trade and energy flows, for security competition given China’s growing naval activity, and for connectivity between Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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