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Russia’s Balancing Act: Navigating the Indo-Pak Rift Post-Pahalgam (Aleksei Zakharov, Rajoli Siddharth Jayaprakash – Observer Research Foundation)

The Russia-India partnership is a unique one. With converging geopolitical interests and an absence of bilateral disputes, the two countries have forged a long-standing...

India Think Tank Forum 2025: Shaping a Resilient Global Order (Harsh V. Pant – Observer Research Foundation)

Not until now has the world experienced such rapid succession of events whose geopolitical consequences are as far and wide. As we write this,...

Building Corridors of Influence: India’s and China’s Infrastructure Initiatives in Myanmar and Thailand (Sreeparna Banerjee – Observer Research Foundation)

Southeast Asia’s growing economic and strategic relevance has attracted the attention of global powers, particularly India and China, the largest economies in the Indo-Pacific...

Unpacking “The Bahá’í Question”: 46 Years of Institutionalised, State-Sponsored Persecution Against the Bahá’ís in Iran (Bahá’í International Community Geneva Office – Australian Institute of...

In the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian government executed more than 200 Bahá’ís, members of the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority....

Zimbabwe at 45 – What is Happening? (Chipo Dendere – Australian Institute of International Affairs)

As citizens flee from political repression and economic hardship, the hope for a brighter Zimbabwe diminishes. The ongoing brain drain threatens the very foundation...

China’s rare earth advantage isn’t just about control (Walter Colnaghi – The Interpreter)

The 90-day pause in the US-China trade war brought relief to global markets. But while the trade truce is good news, rare earth elements...

Australia’s role in preventing the next Andaman Sea refugee catastrophe (Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, Christy Kumesan, Caitlin McCaffrie, Naparat Kranrattanasuit – The Interpreter)

Ten years ago, people smugglers abandoned more than 8,000 refugees and migrants to be stranded for weeks in the Andaman Sea. An estimated 370...

Is Taiwan prepared to fight for itself? (Vincent So – The Interpreter)

Support for Taiwan is often presented as a binary: the West either defends a fellow democracy or abandons it to authoritarianism. But the real...

Golden Dome looks technically doable, but brings strategic complications (Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan – The Strategist)

The plan for a Golden Dome missile defence system in the United States looks technologically feasible but nonetheless raises doubts around factors such as...

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