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The #ShanghaiCooperationOrganisation is critical for #India to advance its priorities for peace & prosperity in its northern periphery and broader Eurasia. #China’s influence is all pervasive as #Russia and the new member #Iran form a de facto axis. The inclusion of #Iran in the #ShanghaiCooperationOrganisation has sparked concerns that the organisation may be an anti-Western club Harsh V. Pant and Ayjaz wani PhD

Beset with the material and psychological scars of #colonial subjugation, the 19th century, when a national consciousness was developing, saw native thinkers grappling with #India’s place in the world. While matters of #foreignpolicy and #nationalsecurity are deemed too important to be considered partisan, there are good reasons for politics not to stop at the water’s edge. Note Harsh V. Pant and Sanjeet K.

A comprehensive understanding enables a nuanced comparison of countries across the #development spectrum, facilitating a more equitable assessment of progress towards #genderequality, argues Soumya Bhowmick

Utilising the fact that #Hamas’s military wing in #Gaza still holds dozens of #Israeli hostages captive, the group is manipulating pro-Palestine narratives as pro-Hamas ones, as the number of civilian casualties rises. Global counter-terror narratives are backsliding, and this trend needs to be arrested as a compromise with a section of terrorist groups becomes an acceptable way out. Notes Kabir Taneja

Samir Saran delivers a keynote address on the need for novel #AI regulations and inclusive framing at the AI Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking, hosted by Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Watch here👇🏻

#Photogallery | Observer Research Foundation recently hosted an interaction with a delegation from US Army War College. See glimpses here!

#India is redefining its #foreignpolicy amid the intense and transformative global change. “The Making of a Global #Bharat” series celebrates India’s global engagements and explores the core elements of this new foreign policy vision shaped over the past 10 years. Editors: Harsh V. Pant and Sameer Patil, PhD Read the full book here

In #India, a household that spends about 3-4 percent of its income on #energy is probably an energy-poor & income-poor household which does not consume even the minimum required for a decent living: Lydia Powell, Akhilesh Sati & Vinod Kumar Tomar

#India has agreed to facilitate the export of electricity from #Nepal to #Bangladesh via #Indian transmission infrastructure to intensify #energy and #investment cooperation. #Nepal could leverage #India’s success in #DigitalPublicInfrastructure to collaborate on its digitisation journey and jointly foster interoperable #digital systems for cross-border #economic integration to benefit from the long-standing #economic & people-to-people linkages.

With attention to #trade in goods & services, investment promotion, bilateral cooperation, #environment protection and labour welfare, the India-European Free Trade Association’s #Trade and #Economic Partnership Agreement covers the crucial aspects of an #economic partnership: Arya Roy Bardhan