124 results
Energy dependence, remittance flows and trade corridors reveal how deeply India’s economy is tied to stability in West Asia. Part II of a two-part series.
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
Economic collapse, political revolt and great-power rivalry converge in Iran’s most dangerous moment in decades.
What prolonged global conflicts mean for Europe, China—and India’s narrowing strategic space.
As the world fixates on large language models, a quieter shift toward world models, scientific AI and safety is reshaping global power
How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.
Ambassador Shyam Saran on a post-American order, a slowing China, and how India must balance room for manoeuvre with hard-headed realism on Russia, the US and China.
Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China
Justin Logan of the Cato Institute on how Trump’s second term reshaped global trade, defense alignments, and America’s domestic equilibrium—and why the turbulence may be far from over
Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
How does China see the Trumpian reset of the global order? What's really happening inside its domestic economy? And are we seeing signs of a thaw with India? A conversation with Chinese economist Prof. Yao Yang
Beneath the chatter about chatbots, a deeper contest is unfolding—between nations, companies, and scientists racing to build the AI that will control life itself
Tariffs were designed for a world of steel and sugar. They’re hopelessly out of sync with the quantum-entangled world of semiconductors
Israel’s strike on Qatar has triggered a dangerous new phase in the Middle East — exposing Washington’s conflicting roles as ally and broker
As with the atomic bomb, a new technology threatens humanity. Will we look up this time—or repeat history’s worst mistake?
What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session
In the Indo-Pacific, America’s transactionalism collides with its strategic incoherence—posing hard choices for its partners
How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance
AI can detect disease and find medicines which no doctor can. It can also develop biological weapons which do not exist on the earth
Ukraine’s critical minerals deal with the US hangs on the edge of a precipice. Will it be a harbinger of peace with Russia? Or a deal too complex for even Trump to swing?
15 takeaways from Part 2 of the two-part Masterclass series with former foreign secretary Shyam Saran
17 takeaways on the new dynamics in geopolitics and geoeconomics, especially after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, the shifting sands in the Middle East with conflict and informal fragile truce, and the big decadal shifts
The defining challenges for India as it tries to balance demands from the US administration, and its own Asian backyard, which is increasingly coming under the dragon’s shadow
