Research desks
Security & Conflict
13 May 2025
Is a Fear of a Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?
Washington in the 1960s saw President JFK sound a prescient warning. Without international cooperation, the world might soon see a proliferation of nuclear weapons across 15 to 25 states — a scenario that risked global catastrophe. To avoid this, the United States spearheaded the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), founded on a strategic bargain: non-nuclear states would refrain from developing such weapons, and existing nuclear powers would gradually disarm.
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Indo-Pacific
2 April 2025
IMEC Corridor: Strategic Realignment to Counterbalance China
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is emerging as an essential initiative to counterbalance China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and wider posturing by Beijing. India has been critical of China’s BRI since its launch, and IMEC has been one of the alternative initiatives offering a different connectivity model.
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Indo-Pacific
1 April 2025
It’s been over three months since the UK joined a band of 14 other mainly Pacific Rim countries in a trade bloc that is the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (or CPTPP for short).
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