Indian and Regional Maritime Security Archives - National Maritime Foundation

THE MARITIME LOGIC FOR SEMICONDUCTOR RESILIENCE

Trouble at the Root of Supply Chains The present global milieu has been ushered into an age of recalibration, resulting from analyses that usually transcend traditional assumptions, mainly because the…

PATHWAYS FOR INDIA–SPAIN COLLABORATION ON UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE

Contemporary Developments India and Spain have jointly designated 2026 as the “Year of Culture, Tourism, and Artificial Intelligence.”[1] This development marks an important step in broadening the cultural…

CHINA’S NUCLEAR CLOCK AMBITIONS AND THE FUTURE OF MARITIME SECURITY IN THE INDO-PACIFIC — AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

Keywords: Nuclear Technology, Undersea Warfare, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Maritime Security, Maritime Trade, Indo-Pacific China’s recent advances in the…

MALAYSIA’S EVOLVING DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEM AND OPPORTUNITIES ARISING FOR INDIA

Keywords: India-Malaysia; Comprehensive Strategic Partnership; Defence Industrial Cooperation; Defence Technology Partnership; Maritime Security; Indian Ocean…

INDIA AND THE COLOMBO SECURITY CONCLAVE — STRENGTHENING SUB-REGIONAL MARITIME SECURITY

India’s approach to “Constructive Engagement” in the maritime domain presently rests on five distinct, yet complementary, lines-of-thrust. The first is…

BUILDING AN INDIA–GREECE PARTNERSHIP IN UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE

The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) is undertaking a series of comparative studies involving countries that have developed advanced legal, institutional, and…

THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AWARD CHINA COULD HAVE ABSORBED

China’s rejection of the 2016 South China Sea arbitral award is often read as proof of resolve. But calibrated compliance may have served Beijing’s long-term…

IMEC AFTER THE FIRE: FROM CONNECTIVITY CORRIDOR TO INDO-PACIFIC RESILIENCE ARCHITECTURE

In September 2023, at the G20 Summit in New Delhi, eight parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), a multimodal connectivity framework linking India…

SECURING MARITIME INTERESTS IN THE PACIFIC — ADVANCING THE INDIA–PAPUA NEW GUINEA PARTNERSHIP

Strategic Overview The Indo-Pacific has assumed very considerable strategic importance in global geopolitics, elevating the significance of every segment and…

EVALUATING THE INDIA–ROK THOOTHUKUDI GREENFIELD SHIPYARD MOU

Keywords: India–Republic of Korea Relations; Shipbuilding; VOYAGES Framework; Thoothukudi…

REVIEW OF “BLUE SECURITY IN THE INDO-PACIFIC”

Editors: Ian Hall, Troy Lee-Brown, and Rebecca Strating. Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2025. 248 pages, Rs 10,221, ISBN: 978-1-032-69289-0 (Hardback) Against…

“AGENDA 2030” — INDIA’S STRATEGIC ADAPTATION AND GREECE’S NEW VISION OF DETERRENCE

Abstract Greece is entering a period when deterrence can no longer be understood solely in terms of possessing advanced platforms. Rafale fighter jets,…