Niranjan Marjani

Algeria, the largest country in Africa in terms of size, is also a major stakeholder in the geopolitics of North Africa. In recent times, while being in the thick of geopolitical action, Algeria has...

Armenia, located at the crossroads of West Asia and Eurasia, is one of the strategically most important countries in the Eurasian region. The geopolitics of Eurasia, still shaped to a certain extent by the...

One of the fallouts of Assad’s ouster has been Russia relocating its military assets from Syria to Libya. The fall of the Assad regime could be interpreted as the West, led by the United...

The rebels’ offensive against the Syrian government since November 27 has resulted in the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. The offensive, particularly by a group called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led to the fall of...

Recently Morocco tightened controls on its border with Algeria. It strengthened border surveillance and took security measures including the deployment of forward posts with electronic and optical movement detection systems, high-sensitivity seismic sensors, fixed...

Spain’s President Pedro Sánchez’s visit to India marked an important milestone in the India-Spain relations. Sánchez along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the final assembly line of the C295 military transport aircraft at...

October 7 marks one year since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which has added to the challenges that the world has already been facing due to the Russia-Ukraine war. Apart from impacting the...

In an increasingly turbulent and unstable global landscape, India has distinguished itself as a formidable power capable of deftly navigating the complex and often chaotic international order. The past five years have served as...

Türkiye is set to send naval support to Somalia following the agreement between the two countries to explore oil and gas in Somali waters. ​In July, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduced a motion...

Defence diplomacy has become key to India’s external engagements in recent years. India, primarily a major defence importer, is now taking steps towards employing multi-dimensional aspects of defence engagements while interacting with countries worldwide....

Grey zone warfare is often described as the ambiguous and murky realm that exists between outright conflict and peace in international relations. In this space, both state and non-state actors engage in campaigns that...

On May 13, India signed a 10-year bilateral contract with Iran for the operation of the Chabahar Port. Under the agreement signed between India Port Global Limited (IPGL) and the Ports and Maritime Organisation...

On May 10, Turkish forces killed 17 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) across various regions in northern Iraq and northern Syria. Four days earlier, on May 6 as well Türkiye had conducted air strikes in northern...