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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 Territorial and maritime disputes have seen resurgence, posing significant challenges to international relations and...

Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Photo from the Associated Press, Mark Schiefelbein I. Introduction Last year, China...