Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s opinion piece ‘Natural gas is Europe’s Achilles heel. Russia to Germany—everyone’s desperate to diversify’ has been published in ‘The Print’ on 29 July 2022.
Putin has a clear edge because turning off gas taps will send shockwaves across European industries, further deepening the global economic crisis, says Dr Rao.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s opinion Piece ‘Why ‘Natoisation’ of Sweden and Finland is bad news for Putin’ has been published in ‘The Print’ on 15 July 2022.
Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO is not sudden. Despite official neutrality, they have been close NATO partners for decades, says Dr Rao.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s article ‘India's relations with the US and European Powers in the emerging Indo-Pacific Dynamics: Strategising in time to counter China’ has been published in Resource Paper 40 titled ‘India and Japan in Free and Open Indo Pacific’, published by the India and Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s opinion piece ‘Why Turkey’s rise in Russia-Ukraine war is a masterclass in balancing, hedging strategy’ has been published in ‘The Print’ on 01 July 2022.
Maintaining close defence ties with Ukraine while engaging with Russia to achieve foreign policy goals shows Turkey's balancing act has lessons, says Dr Rao.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s chapter ‘Five Eyes and the Evolving Indo Pacific Paradigm’ has been published in the edited volume ‘Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual and Operational Challenges’, published by Routledge, Oxford and New York .
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s article ‘Corruption in Russian Military and Putin’s Future Strategy’ has been published in Taaza Khabar News on 21 April 2022.
The Russian military vulnerabilities in the Ukrainian war is one of the products of its systemic corruption that has thrived under Putin. The direction of the war will now depend on how far Putin is planning to ramp up the Russian offensive to claim victory, says Dr Rao.
The Orban government’s foreign and domestic policies will continue to be under the EU’s scanner, as it seeks to ramp up pressure on Russia for precipitating the worst security crisis that Europe is witnessing after the Second World War.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s article ‘The Ukrainian Conundrum’ has been published in ‘The Pioneer’ on 06 March, 2022.
The Russia-Ukraine war is changing the very foundations of the global order. As the debris settle, we will see a more militarised Europe & a more multipolar world with repercussions for India's interests as well, writes Dr Rao.
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s article ‘China’s Economic Coercion in the EU has caught the Chinese on the Wrong Foot’ has been published by
the Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA) on 28 February 2022.
The Ukrainian crisis is less about Ukraine, its national politics and foreign policy, and more about redefining the rules not only of the European security but also the international order and the simmering rivalry between great powers in particular.
What Viktor Orban’s Landslide Win Means for the European Union?
The Orban government’s foreign and domestic policies will continue to be under the EU’s scanner, as it seeks to ramp up pressure on Russia for precipitating the worst security crisis that Europe is witnessing after the Second World War.