Category International Relations and Strategic Studies

, Critical Technologies

Australia–India Partnership on Cyber, Critical Technologies and Supply Chains (PACTS), 2026: Strengthening Strategic Resilience in the Indo-Pacific

The proliferation of digital technologies underscores the importance of cybersecurity, critical technologies, and supply chain resilience to Australia's and India's national security, economic growth, and innovation capacity. Advancements in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotechnology, and digital infrastructure present significant opportunities, yet concurrently introduce risks, including cyber threats, technological disruptions, and supply chain vulnerabilities.

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The India–UAE Bilateral Investment Treaty (2024): Implications for Investment and Economic Diplomacy

A deep-rooted Comprehensive Strategic Partnership has replaced the old marine commercial link between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic visit in 2015—the first by an Indian premier in 34 years—diplomatic relations, which were initially established in 1972, gained fresh impetus. This visit changed the emphasis from a buyer-seller energy dynamic to a multifaceted combination of infrastructure, security, and high technology.

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Integrated Theatre Commands: Advancing Jointness in India’s National Security Architecture

India's security environment has grown more complex, with threats now surfacing across land, maritime, air, cyber and space domains at the same time. This has raised the importance of jointness and integration among the Army, Navy and Air Force. The three Services have traditionally run largely separate operational structures, coordinating through higher-level mechanisms rather than a unified command.

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India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement 2026: Trade and Investment Cooperation

The India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a major bilateral agreement aimed at deepening trade, investment, and professional mobility between the two economies. Negotiations were formally launched in January 2022 and continued over roughly 15 rounds between 2022 and 2025 (UK Parliament, 2026). The agreement was signed on 24 July 2025 in London by India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and the UK's then Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds, and came into effect on 15 July 2026 alongside a companion Agreement on Social Security (Double Contribution Convention, DCC) (PIB, 2026b).

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Troubled Waters: Revisiting the India-Bangladesh Teesta River Agreement (1983, 2011 and Beyond)

The Teesta is a 414-kilometre transboundary river originating from the Pahunri (Teesta Kangse) glacier in the Sikkim Himalaya. It flows through Sikkim and West Bengal before entering Bangladesh, where it eventually joins the Brahmaputra. The river is joined by tributaries such as the Rangeet. The Teesta is a fast-flowing Himalayan river characterised by high velocities, heavy sediment loads and seasonal fluctuations in discharge

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Production-Linked Incentive–Advanced Chemistry Cell (PLI-ACC) Engine: A Friend-Shoring Trade Alliance with the UK-India Free Trade Agreement (2025)

Globalisation for several decades has been treated as a dominant paradigm that elevated efficiency as the ultimate moral principle. Capital would go wherever the cost of labor was lowest; production concentrated where economies of scale existed on a large enough scale to take advantage of them; and national boundaries continued to erode due to frictionless movement in global trade. However, history always seems to find its way back. Recent supply chain disruptions combined with increased geopolitical tension at many of the key trade choke points have exposed a significant weakness: Efficiency without Resilience is a Trap.

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India’s Parliamentary Diplomacy with North Macedonia: Significance of the Presidential Visit (2026)

India isn’t just looking at the usual big players in Europe anymore. Lately, it’s turning more eyes toward Southeast Europe and the Western Balkans. Why? Because New Delhi wants to shake up its diplomatic strategy and spread its influence , build more varied partnerships in a Europe that keeps changing shape. North Macedonia, for instance, has started to matter more. It sits in a key spot in the Balkans, has solid democratic foundations, and opens new doors for India in trade, technology, education, research, and sustainable growth.

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