Essays

Also see publications on Tarqeq Research website.

  1. Artificial Intelligence for the Indo-Pacific: A Blueprint for 2030, The Diplomat, November 27, 2020
  2. India’s Frontier Paradox, The Diplomat, August 22, 2020
  3. Ladakh: The Anatomy of a Surprise, The Diplomat Magazine, August 01, 2020
  4. What Would Happen If China Made First Contact With Extraterrestrials?, The Diplomat, March 11, 2020
  5. Dalliance No More: How India-US Defence Trade Relationship Matures over Years, News18, February 21, 2020. (Methodology note for the article.)
  6. Soldiers, Bureaucrats, and Statesmen: India’s Civil-Military Balance, The Diplomat Magazine, January 2020
  7. India’s Unrealized Maritime Dreams, The Diplomat Magazine, July 2019
  8. Death by a thousand cuts, Firstpost (Print), March 23-29, 2019. Also available online here. (Methodology note for the article.)
  9. How India’s defense policy complicates US-India military cooperation, War Room, February 26, 2019
  10. The New Great Game: China and the intense maritime contest in Indo-Pacific region, Swarajya, April 2018. Also available online here.
  11. Revolutionary Road: Indo-Pacific in Transition, in Ritika Passi and Harsh V. Pant (eds.) “2018 Raisina Files: Debating Disruption in the World Order” (New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation, 2018) [book].
  12. In search of China’s grand strategy, ORF Expert Speak | Raisina Debates, April 19, 2017. Reprinted in Harsh V. Pant (ed.) “China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications” (Observer Research Foundation/HarperCollins, 2019), 13-17 [book].
  13. India is not changing its policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, War on the Rocks, March 29, 2017
  14. Getting India’s world right, Swarajya, March 2017. Also available online here.
  15. Thomas Schelling and the Golden Age of American strategy, ORF Expert Speak| Atlantic Files, December 19, 2016
  16. The other legacy of Robert McNamara, War on the Rocks, June 10, 2016.
  17. BRICS to rebuild the house [with Samir Saran] in Ritika Passi (ed.) “ORF Primer 2016” (New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation, 2016) [book].
  18. Asian connectivity and its geoeconomic imperatives in “2016 Raisina Files: Connecting Asia,” (New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation, 2016) [book].
  19. Common Futures: India and Africa in Partnership [co-edited with Tanoubi Ngangom] (New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation, 2015).
  20. The evolution of global risks: The first decade of World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports, Global Policy, June 25, 2015
  21. Resizing Osama bin Laden, Open, Web Exclusive: April 30, 2012. Print: May 14, 2012