Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
India’s significant weaknesses compared with China, and its inescapable proximity to it, guarantee that New Delhi will never involve itself in any U.S. confrontation with Beijing that does not directly threaten its own security.
Getting the balance right on matters of nuclear doctrine, force structure, and operational posture will always be challenging because of the tensions inherent in the multiple objectives simultaneously pursued by Washington.
How Russia’s invasion has upended politics and economies far away from the battlefields.
Worldwide inflation and a global economic slowdown will impact India’s import bill and constrain Indian exports—a driver of growth.
Can China and India disengage from contested territories along the border?
For the first time in a long while, the West is deeply at odds with Russia at exactly the time when New Delhi is attempting to protect its longstanding relationship with Moscow. It is clearly a stress test, and we cannot pretend otherwise.
In this Marshall Paper, Ashley Tellis looks at the broad sweep of America’s grand strategy in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and argues that policymakers must remain committed to preserving U.S. hegemony in order to “shape evolving trends to its advantage.
The competitive and often antagonistic relationships among China, India, and Pakistan have roots that predate their possession of nuclear weaponry. Yet the significant transformation of the nuclear capabilities that is now underway in all three countries simultaneously complicates and mitigates their geopolitical rivalries.
Elbridge A. Colby’s book, The Strategy of Denial, interrogates the most important strategic problem facing Washington today: how should the United States prepare to meet China’s challenge?
As Russia’s war in Ukraine unfolds, India’s national interests have so far dictated a position of formal neutrality. Here are the factors New Delhi faces in balancing its foreign policy priorities.
