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Global Affairs Session 82 21 August 2026 AMERICA VERSUS ALLIES Alliances become new battlefields What happens when America’s allies become targets of American pressure? Trump’s presidency has turned alliances into bargaining tables over defence bills, tariffs, bases, weapons, Ukraine, Iran, China and loyalty. Allies are spending more, but trusting less.

Global Affairs Session 81 20 August 2026 CHINA AND TAIWAN: THE SIMMERING VOLCANO The unfinished legacy of the Chinese Civil War China–Taiwan tensions are rooted in the unresolved division created in 1949. Beijing seeks reunification and reserves the use of force, while Taiwan functions as a self-governing democracy. Military pressure, defence preparations, American support, semiconductor dependence and great-power rivalry keep the Taiwan Strait exposed to coercion, blockade pressure, miscalculation and sudden escalation.

Global Affairs Session 63 03 July 2026 INDIA AND JAPAN A long-running relationship India and Japan share a relationship built on Buddhism, Asian civilizational contact, post-war goodwill, economic complementarity and Indo-Pacific strategy. From indirect cultural links to modern technology, infrastructure, defence, supply-chain and energy cooperation, ties have steadily widened, and since 2000 the partnership has become strategic, practical and future-oriented for both nations.

Global Affairs Session 38 18 May 2026 STORY OF INDO-PACIFIC Free-flowing waters of trade and power The Indo-Pacific is a strategic oceanic region linking India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan, China, and America through trade, security, and geopolitics. From ancient maritime trade routes to today's major powers, contested water bodies and competing regional visions, this session traces how the Indo-Pacific became the central arena of twenty-first century geopolitics — and where it may be headed by 2030.

Global Affairs Session 27 1 May 2026 HORMUZ VS. NICOBAR: CHOKE POINT ANALYSIS Global energy vulnerability and India’s strategic position near the Strait of Malacca Maritime chokepoints concentrate global trade, energy flows and naval movement into narrow passages. This session compares the Strait of Hormuz with the Strait of Malacca, explains the strategic importance of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and assesses whether India can influence or block traffic through Malacca.

Global Affairs Session 15 15 April 2026 AN ERA OF WAR Multiple conflicts, hard power politics and the arrival of prolonged instability The world is not in one declared global war, but multiple regional conflicts are unfolding simultaneously and creating wider instability. The post-Cold War phase of cooperation is weakening as military strength, territorial control and coercion return to the centre of statecraft.