A multipolar world, read from New Delhi.
IPGA is a New Delhi think-tank producing rigorous analysis of India's foreign policy, strategic autonomy and national security, with sustained focus on West Asia, South Asia and the rise of the Global South.
Indian interests, argued with scholarly rigour.
IPGA brings academic research and policy commentary together. Its work examines how India builds partnerships, protects its security and shapes the institutions of a rebalancing world order.
Mission
To offer an authentic Indian reading of global affairs, grounded in India's civilisational outlook and its strategic interests.
Method
Field-informed, theory-driven analysis that connects daily diplomacy to long arcs of history, security and economics.
Reach
Regular commentary in international outlets, including a sustained column in The European Times, alongside national research projects.
Five programmes, one strategic lens.
Each programme gathers IPGA's published analysis on a region or question central to India's place in the world.
Recent and essential reading.
BRICS at India's Moment
India's 2026 chairship and the 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit at Bharat Mandapam, read as a defining test of coalition-building in a multipolar order.
Mosaic Resilience: Iran and the New Art of Decentralized Attrition
How distributed endurance reshaped Iran's posture, and how reliance on AI-enabled targeting bred strategic overconfidence.
Jaishankar's G7 Moment
India's role in recasting the norms of global governance.
Modi in Ethiopia: India's Global South Leadership
Partnership built on sovereign equality, strategic autonomy and developmental realism.
The IPGA vocabulary.
Concepts developed across IPGA's writing to explain security and power in India's extended neighbourhood.
Mosaic Resilience
Distributed, decentralised endurance that lets a state absorb attrition and keep functioning.
Rentier Security
Gulf states' reliance on externally purchased protection, and the fragility it conceals.
Algorithmic Hubris
Strategic overconfidence produced by heavy dependence on AI-enabled targeting and decision-making.
Indo-Gulf Strategic Arc
India's deepening partnerships with Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the wider Gulf.
RAKSHA
A framework for reading India's defence diplomacy and its expanding security partnerships.
The Director.
Dr. Maheep
Dr. Maheep is a leading analyst of India's foreign policy, with more than a decade of teaching and research in International Relations and Global Politics. He is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, IGNOU, and Principal Investigator of a national research project on India's soft power diplomacy.
His scholarship centres on Arab and Islamic Studies, India's foreign policy and civilisational diplomacy, and the security architecture of the Gulf. He writes a sustained column for The European Times on BRICS, West Asia, Pakistan and India's strategic autonomy.
- Academic postAssistant Professor of IR, IGNOU
- ResearchPrincipal Investigator, India's Soft Power Diplomacy
- Doctoral workWomen's empowerment in the GCC states
- ColumnThe European Times, articles listed here
The European Times archive.
Dr. Maheep's commentary, arranged by programme. Each entry opens the original article on The European Times.
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Media & columns
Commentary appears regularly in The European Times.