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APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING MARITIMITY: INTEGRATING FORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND INFORMAL NARRATIVES

    Overview The cultivation of maritime consciousness in India is neither a rhetorical flourish nor abstract symbolism; it is a strategic necessity.  This article extends the argument outlined in the earlier study, which…

MARITIME TOURISM — THE CASE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

    India’s engagement with the seas has historically extended beyond trade and naval power, encompassing and incorporating culture, mobility, and exchange.  Despite this, contemporary policy continues to treat the maritime…

SEA-BLIND INSTITUTIONS: HOW COLONIAL LEGACIES WEAKEN MARITIMITY IN INDIA

      Establishing Background India presently aspires to invoke its civilisational oceanic heritage to be a leading maritime power, projecting influence in multiple dimensions of cooperation across the Indo-Pacific. …

IMPERATIVES OF MAINTAINING OPEN, SAFE AND SECURE SEAS AMIDST CONTEMPORARY CROSS-STRAIT DYNAMICS

    Abstract This article examines the tenuous cross-Strait dynamics under the shadow of China’s sustained military and grey-zone coercion against Taiwan and the attendant risks to regional peace and global maritime…

CONCEPTUALISING A “MEDITERRANEAN ARC” (A FUNCTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR MARITIME COOPERATION BETWEEN INDIA, GREECE, CYPRUS, AND ISRAEL)

      Note: This paper was penned just prior to the outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf on 28 February 2026.  The security landscape stretching from West Asia to the Eastern Mediterranean is undergoing…
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THE SEABORNE TRANSPORT OF INDIA’S ‘CRITICAL’ MINERALS (PART 1)

Mineral resources underpin industrial economies and technological progress and are indispensable to the energy transition, enabling the production of solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage technologies.  Some of these mineral resources…

THE CLIMATE COST OF WAR — CONFLICT AS A STRUCTURAL DRIVER OF EMISSIONS, ENERGY DISRUPTION, AND BLUE-CARBON LOSS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC

    Climate policy is typically constructed on the assumption that decarbonisation can proceed within a stable geopolitical environment. This assumption underpins dominant approaches to climate governance, where emissions…

RE-READING INDIA–SINGAPORE MARITIME INTERDEPENDENCE

    Relations between India and Singapore are frequently narrated along two familiar axes.  At one end lies the empirical comfort of trade tables, FDI flows, port investments, and institutional agreements, each acting as…

ELEMENTS OF A ‘LEGAL FINISH’ FOR THE PROTECTION OF CRITICAL UNDERWATER INFRASTRUCTURE

    Damage to ‘critical’ underwater infrastructure (CUI) especially submarine communication cables continues to make headlines in 2026.  With six ‘outages’ of cable systems again in the Baltic Sea within the span of…
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THE IRAN CRISIS AND RUSSIA’S REAL GAINS — OIL, SHIPPING, SANCTIONS AND INDIA’S STAKES

    As the Iran crisis continues to unfold, a range of disruptions—from energy-supply concerns to rising shipping risks—are shaping global narratives about its wider consequences.  Among these, one claim has gained particular…

THE REAL COST OF MARITIME CONFLICT IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA’S SECURITY OF ENERGY

    Keywords Strait of Hormuz; India; Iran; Maritime Security of Energy; Maritime Conflict Geography; International Maritime Law; Oil Chokepoint The ongoing armed conflict in the Persian Gulf and its environs, principally…

INDIA’S OCEAN STRATEGY: NO ‘MONROE DOCTRINE’ — ONLY COOPERATIVE SECURITY

    On 04 March 2026, a US submarine torpedoed and sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena about 40 nautical miles off Sri Lanka.[1]  Sri Lankan authorities recovered the remains of 87 individuals and rescued 32 survivors.[2] …

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