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India: A great power or a great presence? (Akshobh Giridharadas, ORF)

Michael Wood’s epic BBC documentary, Story of India, chronicles his journey across the Indian subcontinent, lauding India’s antiquity, its traditions and cultures from days of...

Impact of gender reservation in Indian Urban Local Bodies (Ramanath Jha, ORF)

At the national level, gender reservation in Parliament is yet an undone deal. The Women’s Reservation Bill, seeking to reserve 33 percent seats in the lower...

The 16+1 Initiative: Judged Too Quickly? (Samanya Sharma, ORF)

The 9th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Summit in February this year witnessed President Xi Jinping emphasise the growth of trade between China and the Central and...

The Quad Commits to Regulating Space (Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan, ORF)

The first in-person summit of the leaders of the Quad group of countries, comprising of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, met in...

Oz’s choice—AUKUS and the break with Paris (Manoj Joshi, ORF)

Australia certainly mismanaged the emergence of the AUKUS, but it had few alternatives. Actually, the decision is  another “achievement” of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy....

Merkel’s Legacy, as Seen From Russia (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Seen from Moscow, Angela Merkel’s long tenure was a period of relative, if not always palatable, predictability in German-Russian relations. The future of the...

Playing at Politics: Manufacturing Russia’s Parliamentary Parties (Tatiana Stanovaya, Carnegie Moscow Center)

For the in-system political parties, the presidential administration simply sets some general ground rules. For the new administrative parties, the presidential administration is not...

The Expansion of NDB Membership: First Wave of BRICS+ (Yaroslav Lissovolik, Valdai Discussion Club)

The near term priorities for the expanded NDB will need to focus on countering the pandemic crisis. This in turn raises the importance of...

US Nuclear Forces Announce the ‘Breathtaking’ Growth of China and the Need for a Transition to Trilateral Deterrence (Alexander Yermakov, Valdai Discussion Club)

The strategic situation for the United States is changing in connection with the growing confrontation with China. It is changing, perhaps, really uncomfortably for Washington, which could...

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