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From a post-colonial ethic of non-alignment, India has pivoted through pragmatic multi-alignment to a self-defined “core alignment,” recalibrating every partnership by a single metric: does it harden India’s security, economic, or technological autonomy against China’s rise and shifting great-power fault lines? The shift—evident in the 2025 cross-border reprisal against Pakistan and in India’s simultaneous oil buys from Russia and data-sharing pacts with the Quad—signals that

Introduction  The America First agenda of the Second Trump administration has reverberated in International Affairs, exemplified by the announcement of the high tariffs on other nations through the America First Trade Policy on January 20th, 2025. On the contrary, less attention is paid to how this America First agenda has implications for US maritime power, known globally, centred on its naval power as an essential component of the enduring nature of US Superpower status sin

Introduction Since the onset of the Ukraine war in 2022, commercial relations between Japan and Russia have come under considerable strain. In reaction to the invasion, Japan enacted a broad range of economic sanctions against Russia, which included rescinding Russia’s most-favored-nation (MFN) status and freezing the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian central bank. [1]  Russia, for its part, retaliated by suspending peace treaty talks with Japan and e

AI Generated Image Introduction As geopolitical tensions mount, public health crises proliferate and socioeconomic inequalities widen,...

Image Generated by AI Introduction Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the global community has been...

Photo Credit: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Introduction The maritime agreement between Israel and Lebanon, signed on...

Photo Credit: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Introduction Russia has been a security challenge for Japan since the...

Photo Credit: The Insider The Red Sea has long served as a critical waterway in the maritime domain. As a gateway to the Suez Canal, the...

Kulusuk Village, East Greenland. Photo provided by Pixabay.com Introduction The world’s great power states are gearing up for the cold...