Navya Vikraman Nair

The negotiations for a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) have once again entered a phase of extended deliberation, and is now expected to spill into this new year. The next round of negotiations is scheduled for early January, indicating that despite sustained engagement, both sides remain far from a final consensus. What's interesting to note is, this delay is not merely procedural, it rather reflects a deep economic, regulatory, and strategic...

Nuclear weapons in South Asia have never existed in isolation from politics, ideology, and power struggle. And particularly for India, nuclear deterrence was always framed as a reluctant necessity rather than one which is shaped by security threat, governed with rules, and institutional accountability. Pakistan’s nuclear programme, however, has followed a fundamentally different trajectory than this. Declassified assessments revealing that even major global leaders privately expressed concern...

In late 2025, when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi declared in the Parliament that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could amount to a survival threatening situation for Japan , opening the door to the notion of collective self defence she rather dramatically shifted decades of Tokyo’s strategic ambiguity in a second by this statement. This very remark shattered the very spirit of diplomatic complacency, signaling a potentially new era in East Asia security. It's essential to note how...