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Dhruva Jaishankar

Dhruva Jaishankar

Articles by Dhruva Jaishankar

Ending the licence raj in India-US relations

India could tie export controls to trade negotiations, despite a traditional US aversion to linking trade with national security. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 12, 2025 09:21 PM IST

India’s uneven quest to master technology

Over the past two decades, successive governments have endeavoured to diversify India’s partnerships with advanced economies (REUTERS)

Published on Mar 15, 2025 06:26 PM IST

Why New Delhi and Brussels must reset bilateral ties

Several recent developments create opportunities to overcome some of the old cliches Europeans and Indians have of each other and forge a forward-looking and broad-based partnership (ANI)

Published on Feb 26, 2025 07:45 PM IST

Foundation for layered India-America relations

Washington, DC, Feb 13 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump deliver a joint press statement after their meeting at the White House, in Washington, DC on Thursday. (Reuters/ANI) (REUTERS)

Published on Feb 17, 2025 09:04 PM IST

Reforming the UNSC remains a tough task

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 13: The United Nations Security Council room is seen at the United Nations headquarters May 13, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP)

Published on May 15, 2024 11:03 PM IST

Anticipating Biden versus Trump rerun

Donald Trump marched March 6, 2024 towards a bitter rematch against President Joe Biden in November as his final Republican rival Nikki Haley thew in the towel after a thumping defeat in the

Published on Mar 25, 2024 11:13 PM IST

Seeing India-China ties through Taiwan

Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, center, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao, right, and supporters in Taipei, Taiwan.(AP)

Published on Jan 18, 2024 01:58 AM IST

The tarnished legacy of Henry Kissinger

FILE PHOTO: A Code Pink demonstrator dangles a set of handcuffs in front of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Armed Services Committee on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 29, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo(REUTERS)

Published on Nov 30, 2023 10:31 PM IST

The collapse of the neo-liberal consensus

It is somewhat ironic that Xi and Biden's meeting should have occurred at an occasion intended to promote international economic cooperation(Reuters)

Published on Nov 20, 2023 10:53 PM IST

How the Czechs checkmated China

As part of what was heralded as a ‘golden period’ in Czech ties with China, Xi Jinping himself visited in 2016.(Reuters / File)

Published on Oct 23, 2023 10:07 AM IST

Why G20 matters to India and the world

A man rides a bicycle past installations of the G20 Summit,(PTI)

Published on Sep 04, 2023 10:40 PM IST

NATO can help Delhi anchor Indo-Pacific

The NATO and Lithuanian flags fly in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 9, 2023, a few days ahead of a July 11-12 NATO Summit. (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP)(AFP)

Published on Jul 09, 2023 10:04 PM IST

A pathway for deeper US-India ties has been laid

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington represents cooperation across the wide breadth of the Indo-US relationship(AP)

Published on Jun 23, 2023 09:57 PM IST

Indo-Pacific summits mark a global churn

The next Quad summit is in Australia and the grouping is proving to be a mechanism to advance bilateral efforts between member-countries (AP)

Updated on May 16, 2023 07:51 PM IST

A common agenda for the Global South

New Delhi, Jan 12 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at the opening session of Voice of Global South Summit 2023, via video conferencing, on Thursday. (ANI Photo) (ANI/PIB)

Updated on Apr 05, 2023 08:09 PM IST

US has bolstered its position in the world

As underlined by his surprise visit to Kyiv this week, American efforts in Ukraine represent a good return on investment from the point of view of US national security planners (AP)

Updated on Feb 22, 2023 07:43 PM IST

Will WC final be remembered for 2 individuals or 2 teams?

Could the 2022 World Cup winning team come to be known as Mbappe’s France? Or will we recall a great Argentina XI featuring Messi at the end of his career? (AFP)

Published on Dec 16, 2022 08:09 PM IST

What midterm results will mean for US and the world

A divided Congress, a divided Republican Party, and a divided America may still be able to get some things done in the next two years. (Shutterstock)

Published on Nov 12, 2022 07:45 PM IST

India plays a crucial role in US semiconductor plans

The success of the US semiconductor industry — deemed a topmost economic and national security priority by the government — will depend on acquiring the requisite human capital almost overnight. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 18, 2022 07:10 PM IST

Post Abe, the contours of India-Japan relations

Shinzo Abe’s assassination less than two years after stepping down as PM leaves a political vacuum that may affect the pace — if not necessarily the direction — of Japan’s future trajectory. This, in turn, has implications for Japan’s partnership with India (PTI)

Updated on Sep 24, 2022 06:28 PM IST

I2U2 reflects new geopolitical realities for all four nations

Following the blueprint of Quad by having identified working groups to achieve specific outcomes in a certain timeframe will signal a seriousness and indicate that the group will not just be a talk shop (ANI/PIB)

Published on Jul 15, 2022 09:11 PM IST

The Ukraine war exposes glaring analytical gaps

A woman cries as she tries to find a body of her son among debris of a residential building destroyed during Russia’s invasion in the town of Borodianka, Kyiv, Ukraine April 9. (Reuters)

Updated on Apr 11, 2022 08:26 PM IST

India should integrate into global value chains

Is India set to seize this opportunity? Not yet. (AFP)

Updated on Mar 04, 2022 03:55 PM IST

What the crisis in Ukraine reveals

Rumia, 59, a member of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, trains close to Kyiv, Ukraine, February. 5, 2022 (AP)

Updated on Feb 14, 2022 08:54 PM IST

Democracy and the US-India relationship

India proved an active participant in the summit, as reflected in the prime minister’s brief but pointed country statement. That statement reinforced the importance to India of democracy, including at the State and grassroots levels, which — among other things — has witnessed the increased participation of women. (ANI)

Updated on Dec 26, 2021 08:38 PM IST

Will the US reset ties with China, Pakistan?

Some in the Democratic national security firmament believe that the Biden administration has adopted far too adversarial a tone with China, although such criticism overlooks Beijing’s contributions to strained relations (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 16, 2021 07:24 PM IST

The collective complicity for AQ Khan

The irony is that Khan’s technological contributions were often failures. Iran abandoned Khan’s secondhand P-1 centrifuges because they proved faulty, while North Korea forsook that method, remaining reliant on plutonium. China continued its struggles with centrifuges in the 1980s until it received assistance from Russia. (REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 11, 2021 06:49 PM IST

Twenty years later, a fractured world

The return of Taliban control in Afghanistan brings all these dynamics into clearer focus (AFP)

Updated on Sep 08, 2021 09:45 PM IST

A tale of four presidents, Afghanistan, and India

Afghans residing in India take part in a demonstration outside the UN Refugee Agency ( UNHCR) office in New Delhi on August 23 to protest against the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan. (AFP)

Updated on Aug 23, 2021 06:16 PM IST

How the US lost the plot in Afghanistan

The US misadventure in Afghanistan did not necessarily have to end this way (AFP)

Updated on Jul 13, 2021 08:27 PM IST

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