This essay discusses how India can address its “compute conundrum” to develop a compute strategy that aligns with its AI strategy.
This essay shares insights on key elements of India’s AI strategy and outlines some of the trade-offs involved in balancing risks with opportunities.
Based on discussions at GTS 2023, this essay summarizes the challenges that developing countries face when it comes to designing and implementing data protection regulations.
When the quinquennial electoral cycle concludes by middle of 2024, GOI will turn its attention to new policy priorities. China, presumably, would be one of these.
Given the importance of AI under the iCET framework, this essay outlines five areas where India and the United States could collaborate to advance their partnership on AI.
With India set to host the sixth Quad Leaders' Summit in 2024, there is every opportunity for this minilateral to not only develop a DPI initiative but also execute pilots in the Indo-Pacific. This essay shares a rationale for how the four Quad countries could achieve this goal.
India's rise as a reliable exporter of defense equipment provides an excellent opportunity to embellish its growing stature on the global stage.
This working paper presents an alternative approach to DPI deployment: the “DPI as a packaged Solution” (DaaS) model. It is a new way to think about rolling out solutions that incorporate the DPI approach at scale and speed.
Shruti Sharma contributed a chapter focusing on biotechnology and its crucial role in developing and producing biological weapons. Given the dangerous potential of biological agents, she argued that it is necessary to strengthen the norm that biotechnology will be used only in non-harmful ways.
Rudra Chaudhuri co-authored a chapter with Shreyas Shende in a book titled "Institutional Roots of India's Security Policy" by Milan Vaishnav. The book aims to offer diverse perspectives on the administrative and operational aspects of India's foreign policy and security.
iCET’s transformative potential was never in doubt. On the first anniversary of its launch, both nations need to institutionalize its working.
France, with its search for strategic autonomy and influence in global affairs, can partner with India in its pursuit of a multipolar world.
This book, based on archival material, outlines India’s efforts to craft a foreign policy in the context of the Anglo–American competition in the Far East. The roles played by the towering personalities of that era are woven into the narrative to paint a picture of the nuts and bolts of Indian diplomacy during the early years of the nation.
Achieving a balance between flexibility and inclusivity is crucial to ensure that minilaterals contribute to enhancing, rather than fragmenting, global governance.
Shibani Mehta and Pranay Kotasthane write on reimagining India's external intelligence service for the Information Age.
As a variety of professions adopt AI, regulatory agencies must be nimble. They need to be provided with skills to keep in step with the fast-changing technology.
This paper examines the reasons why existing agreements and measures between India and China to preserve peace and tranquility along the LAC were not entirely successful, how both sides may deal with border stabilization in the post-2020 scenario, and the possible options for India to build back a framework for peace and tranquility along the border areas.
In 2023, the Ideas and Institutions newsletter from Carnegie India's Political Economy team sent out forty-eight essays. This year-end roundup features those essays that the writers of this newsletter consider the best of the year.
There are many different moving parts with regard to India’s geo-digital age, and there is an urgent need for intra-ministerial coordination.
Outwardly a champion of democracy and freedom, Kissinger may have cracked the Chinese regime open but deceit and perfidy marked his engagement with New Delhi.