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After Hasina, What Holds India and Bangladesh Together?
The infrastructure outlived Hasina. The political alignment behind it did not, and the Ganges treaty is the first test.
Oct 6
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The unannounced concession: arms sales, ambiguity, and the price of quiet
A record arms package approved by Congress remains on hold after two Trump-Xi summits. The pause works as a concession even though nobody has announced…
Oct 2
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September 2026
India’s Russian Oil Strategy and the Limits of Compartmentalisation
How India’s energy dependence, trade ties, and strategic partnerships with Russia and the United States are narrowing its room for manoeuvre.
Sep 29
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Mecca, Marib and the mapping of Saudi thresholds
Two unverified claims, and what they signal to Riyadh, Tehran and Washington about the war's next phase.
Sep 25
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The Tightrope
Pakistan has spent a year turning proximity to a war into a source of profit. First as the mediator who ended the fighting, now as the guarantor who…
Sep 22
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The Party Wants To Be The Colonel
On Dovlatov, Jane Eyre, and What the State Can't Mandate
Sep 18
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What Happened at BRICS?
Cooperation, Contradictions and the Limits of an Expanding BRICS
Sep 15
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The Week the State Did Two Things at Once
A mudslide in Xizang, a subsidy check in Qinghai, and what both reveal about the mechanics of Chinese governance
Sep 11
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Why Climate Change Needs a Security Constituency in South Asia
How Climate Shocks Are Testing South Asia’s Infrastructure, Economy and Ability to Manage Cross-Border Risks
Sep 8
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The Great Redesign
China’s Recovery Problem Is Not Supply. It Is Confidence.
Sep 4
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What is SCO Good for?
As ten heads of government gather in Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the organisation looks more…
Sep 1
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August 2026
The war Iran directs but does not own
How the Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia exposes the machinery behind Iranian power, from Quds Force handlers in Yemen to the Supreme Leader’s $95…
Aug 28
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