Local models, broken pricing, and the slow shift from centralised frontier labs to controlled systems at the edge

India’s defence industrial base has grown faster than most realise – and with it comes a chance for partnerships.

Background Paper No. 38 By Jeffrey D. Bean and Dhruva Jaishankar

YouTube video by ORF America

YouTube video by ORF America

By Marta Bengoa The India-EU free trade agreement will connect over two billion people across a market representing nearly a quarter of global GDP. But the real story isn't about size. It's about tim...

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

YouTube video by ORF America

YouTube video by ORF America

YouTube video by ORF America

By Dhruva Jaishankar The newly-elected presidency of Lee Jae Myung in South Korea has created an opportunity to advance India-South Korea relations. The greatest potential for cooperation between the...

By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ammar Nainar As China and the United States jostle for position, India has a modest but meaningful role to play as a security provider in the Western Pacific. Beyond the Indi...

By Marta Bengoa The current situation demands acknowledgment that trade and monetary policy operate as interconnected systems, not isolated levers that can be pulled independently. A coherent approac...

By Piyush Verma By meeting clean energy targets ahead of schedule, expanding nuclear and hydrogen capacity, and securing critical mineral supply chains, India is positioning itself as a model for cli...

By Dhruva Jaishankar Over the past few months, relations between the United States and India have gone from stable and promising to tense and turbulent..

By Dhruva Jaishankar Over the past few months, relations between the United States and India have gone from stable and promising to tense and turbulent..

Debating New Delhi’s grand strategy.

By Ashita Jain The India-UK FTA reflects a significant shift in India’s digital trade approach. The commitments it makes, particularly on customs duties on electronic transmissions, data flows, and s...

By Lindsey Ford The ongoing crisis in the Middle East — which involved Israeli and then U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, including nuclear facilities, as well as Iranian retaliation against Israel an...

By Dhruva Jaishankar The sudden whiplash in public sentiment in some quarters in India is notable and will moderate the appetite in New Delhi for cooperation with Washington.

By Jeffrey D. Bean All in all, the United States’ oscillating policy on AI diffusion reflects an ongoing struggle in how best to simultaneously retain U.S. leadership in semiconductors and advance c...

By Dhruva Jaishankar Relations between India and Pakistan had been in deep freeze since 2019: there will now be fewer constituencies than ever in India in favor of normalization. 

On May 12, ORF America hosted a webinar about India's response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack, and ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan. Speakers: Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.) , ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ammar Nainar As observers struggle to make sense of Trump’s second presidential term, it is worth considering three parallel debates that are shaping these outcomes.

Background Paper No. 31 By Sarah Box

Scholar & foreign policy analyst Dhruva Jaishankar joins Milan to share his perspective on India's foreign engagement, drawing on findings form his new book "Vishwa Shastra: India and the World."