Comments & Briefs

Small Modular Reactors and India: Institutional Drivers and Challenges

Given India’s future energy demand and need for clean energy, Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are a suitable option.

April-June 2025

Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak , Bhawna

Issue Brief

China’s Space-Based Surveillance Capabilities

China has made notable progress in strengthening its space infrastructure to support space-based surveillance.

September 18, 2025

Abhishek Kumar Darbey

Issue Brief

Steel Dome: Türkiye’s Envisioned Layered Air Shield

Türkiye’s Steel Dome air defence system aims to reduce foreign dependence and protect critical infrastructure.

September 16, 2025

Abhishek Yadav

Issue Brief

Africa’s New Leadership and Resource Nationalism

Africa’s new breed of leaders are renegotiating their role in the fast-changing world order with critical minerals as an important bargaining chip.

September 09, 2025

Abhishek Mishra

IDSA Comments

Trump’s Executive Order on Deep Seabed Mining: A Critical Assessment

A new Executive Order signed by US President Donald Trump on 24 April 2025 calls for enabling US access to vast reserves of mineral resources on the deep seabed space.

September 03, 2025

Bipandeep Sharma

Issue Brief

UN Cyber OEWG Ends after Five-Year Run

The UN has taken a step forward to institutionalise cyber diplomacy, but the success of the new mechanism depends on implementation and sufficient resourcing.

September 03, 2025

Cherian Samuel

Issue Brief

The Total Failure of the Recall Campaign in Taiwan

The defeat of the recall motions against opposition KMT parliamentarians can be interpreted as the Taiwanese people’s message to the government to reconsider its security discourse.

September 02, 2025

Prashant Kumar Singh

IDSA Comments

How Imminent is the Next Israel–Iran War

Some strategic experts fear there is a high probability of a renewed and expansive Israel–Iran war in the coming months.

September 01, 2025

Adil Rasheed

IDSA Comments

The Unease amid Newfound Warmth in Pakistan–Bangladesh Relations

Pakistan–Bangladesh bilateral relations may be witnessing some warmth due to Bangladesh's changed domestic political situation, but the ghost of 1971 still casts a shadow.

September 01, 2025

Ashish Shukla

IDSA Comments