... conflict in the short term. US resources are expended and diverted from containing China. If Washington becomes bogged down in the Iranian campaign, Beijing’s gains will increase. For Iran itself, China stands to become an even more important partner.
India
India is not critically affected by the crisis either, although it suffers economic losses from higher oil prices. A large number of Indians work in the Gulf countries. New Delhi will likely be able to maintain a stable position no matter how the ...
... caution, which limits transparency and predictability, both of which are essential for deeper forms of economic integration. At the same time, security cooperation remains the only domain in which all major powers within the SCO such as China, Russia, and India can engage without compromising their strategic autonomy or national interests. For Russia in particular, this architecture is especially valuable. In a period of shifting regional alignments, the SCO provides Moscow with a reliable multilateral ...
Russia and India will likely have to exercise strategic patience again—a quality they both possess in abundance
Self-sufficiency in Russian-Indian relations has become commonplace over the nearly eighty years of their history. Both countries are major players ...
No clear-cut global order is in sight in the near term, but India-Russia ties are suited for any kind of world order that eventually develops
As the India–Russia Strategic Partnership marks its 25
th
year, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India for the 23
rd
Annual Summit—his 10
th
visit to New ...
In South Asia’s naval realm, new U.S.-India framework risks disturbing that balance by having advanced technology flows and blue water operational dependencies
The announcement on October 31, 2025, of a new ten-year
Defense Framework
between the United States and India at Kuala Lumpur ...
... concept in Russia’s foreign policy. It was first outlined in the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly in February 2024. [
1
] Later that year, it was included in the agenda of the Russian President’s summits with the leaders of China and India, discussed by CIS foreign ministers, and further developed within the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Russian diplomacy consistently incorporates the theme of a Eurasian security system into the dialogue with its partners in various parts of ...
... 2025
Report No. 99 / 2025
The following report focuses on the Middle Eastern policies of extra-regional actors and their transformation in changing conditions. It concentrates on studying the strategies pursued by Russia, the U.S., the EU, China and India in the Middle East. The report also examines how Middle Eastern countries perceive extra-regional actors as they aspire to build pragmatic and balanced relationships with external partners.
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East
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... network of partnerships and security alliances—by promoting interoperability and its warfighting capabilities. The quadrilateral cooperation mechanism, known as the
Quad
, is a manifestation of this approach based on a minilateral grouping among U.S., India, Australia, and Japan. Shared interests, democratic values, and strong people-to-people ties underpin this partnership. Although the Quad’s agenda seemed opaque since its inception,
evolving
to cater traditional security threats, the member states ...
... it could play in the Ukrainian peace process
On August 23, on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Ukraine after concluding his visit in Poland. The half-day trip to Kyiv was the first ever taken by an Indian Prime Minister to Ukraine. During the visit, four agreements were
concluded
. Modi met President Volodymyr Zelensky and conducted a meeting that lasted for two and a half hours. Prior to the visit, the expected outcome was to further develop bilateral ...
On the transformation which was hard to imagine even five years ago
The last time Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin was almost five years ago, in September 2019. The following year, the pandemic broke out, and the Russian leader did not pay a return visit until December 2021. A few ...
