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Centre for International Relations and Strategic Studies

The Centre examines India’s strategic environment: the stability of its neighbourhood, the capabilities of its armed forces, the security of its borders and its standing in a shifting global order. It reads India’s interests with the long memory of history and the discipline of strategy, and writes for those who must secure them.

The neighbourhood
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and the wider South Asian region
Defence and security
Military capability, technology and national security policy
Global order
West Asia, great-power competition and multilateral institutions
Migration and borders
Immigration, refugees and border management

Recent work

All work from the centre
Garbage In, Ballot Out: Technology and the Errors of the Voter ListIshan Garg · 30 October 2026Bangladesh Political Unrest before Elections: What Lies Ahead for India?Shivesh Kaushik · 30 December 2025Mapping the Depths: An Inquiry into India’s Groundwater InsecuritySiddhartha · 9 July 2025Algorithmic Alliances: Could AI Replace Diplomats in Mini-lateral Decision Making?Indrani Mahesh Jadhav · 7 July 2025Feminist Foreign Policy A New Lens or a MislabelAditi Pathak · 6 July 2025Internet Governance Policies: Exploring India’s push for digital self-reliance, UPI diplomacy, and implications for global cyber norms.Gurleen Kaur · 29 June 2025India’s Cyber Security Architecture: Gaps, Threats, and Strategic RoadmapMimansa Joshi · 28 June 2025The New Space Race: India’s ASAT Capability and the Militarization of Outer SpaceYashwini Chauhan · 28 June 2025India’s Demographic Dividend or Disaster? Reassessing Employment, Education, and SkillingPallepati Sai Abhijeet Rao · 26 June 2025When Registration Isn’t Relief: The Broken Promise of India’s e-Shram PortalEman Syed · 26 June 2025The Political Economy of Green Energy: India’s Transition from Coal to RenewablesKunal Powdel · 17 June 2025Boosting Indian Economy: A Strategic Role of the PLI SchemeGunika Razdan · 22 January 2025Feeding the Nation: How Modi’s Government Has Shaped Food Security in IndiaAatmaja Mishra · 8 January 2025Parliament’s Winter Session 2024: Analysis of its Agenda and FunctioningRajkumari Sarjita · 29 December 2024Vacuum in CaucasusSamvat Bhardwaj · 29 December 2024Cultural synchronicity between ASEAN and India- Impact on the strategic and economic co-operation between themArundhati Mathur · 18 December 2024Comparative Study on India and China’s Carbon MarketRohaan Thyagaraju · 16 December 2024Anti-Indian Business Sentiment in China: Geopolitical Tensions, Economic Rivalry, and Nationalist SentimentsRajkumari Sarjita · 11 December 2024INDIA S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MODI ERA : A PARADIGM SHIFT [2014- PRESENT ]Simran Kaur · 9 December 2024THE IMPACT OF U.S. ELECTIONS ON SOUTH ASIAN STRATEGIC FUTURESaurabh Singh · 1 December 2024Modernisation of Indian Army’s Assault Rifles: A Strategic AssessmentShresth · 10 October 2024Bangladesh’s Indo-Pacific Outlook is a Missed Opportunity for building a Grand StrategyNivan Bagchi (Research Fellow) · 6 August 2024Russia India China Relationship: Dogmatic, Pragmatic or Something Beyond?Shipra Dwivedi · 23 June 2024India’s Tryst with ‘State’ of PalestineAFPR Research · 23 May 2024C-295: A Step towards Make-in-IndiaAFPR Research · 9 April 2024Electoral Resilience: How Taiwan fought off Chinese Disinformation CampaignAFPR Research · 9 April 2024JF-17: Ageing Gracefully or Falling Behind?AFPR Research · 9 April 2024The Environmental Impact of Defence Activities: A Case for Clean Tech SolutionsAFPR Research · 7 April 2024The Episode of the Red Sea CrisisAFPR Research · 7 April 2024Australia and Japan Naval Defense ProgramAFPR Research · 6 April 2024Drone Warfare Capability of the Indian Armed ForcesPolicy report · 2024Immigration Policy, 2024Policy report · 2024

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