Policy UpdateAyan Bordoloi Background The 1643 km India-Myanmar border which traverses through Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram was not bounded by walls but by kinship for more than 70 years. Established under the Passport Rules of India, in 1950…
In recent times, Indian diplomacy has had to navigate typical geopolitical challenges, especially when it led multilateral groups like the G20 (in 2023) and BRICS+ in 2026. The New Delhi Summit 2023, until the last minute, was marred by the deepening differences between Russia and the Western countries over the reference and formulation regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, which required tremendous diplomatic agility, capital, goodwill, personal connect, and interventions by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with world leaders to secure the final ‘Delhi Declaration’.
When Hon. Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar formally launched India's campaign for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2028-29 term in New York this week, it was more than the beginning of another diplomatic campaign.
Nayanshi Jain Introduction In an increasingly interconnected world, cultural diplomacy has become an important instrument of foreign policy, enabling countries to strengthen international partnerships through shared heritage, values, and people-to-people exchanges. For India, with its rich civilisational legacy and centuries-old…
Anil Trigunayat India hosted the Foreign Ministers of the BRICS countries in New Delhi in the backdrop of the US and Israeli war on Iran and its fallout to the Gulf countries. A consensus eluded as Iran and the UAE…
Policy UpdateAsmatwali Background The Chabahar Port project has, for over a decade, occupied a singular place in India’s foreign policy imagination: a deep-water gateway on Iran’s Gulf of Oman coast offering New Delhi direct maritime access to Afghanistan and Central…
France’s Feminist Foreign Policy is an example of how a state can connect diplomacy, development and gender equality. This is a diplomatic approach that puts women’s and girls’ rights at the centre of action. In development cooperation it moves gender from secondary concern to a core objective by advancing women’s rights and wider social development. limited to strategy; it is actively implemented through strong advocacy in international forums such as the UN Commission on the Status of Women and European institutions.