Mission
To articulate an authentic Indian reading of global affairs, anchored in India's civilisational outlook and animated by its enduring strategic interests.
वैश्विक मामलों पर भारतीय दृष्टिकोण
Indian Perspective on Global Affairs · New Delhi
Power in Transition. India in Perspective.
IPGA is a New Delhi institution of scholarly inquiry. It reads a changing international order through India's foreign policy, strategic autonomy and national security, with sustained attention to West Asia, South Asia and the Global South.
Global SouthWest AsiaSouth AsiaEuropeIndo-PacificCentral Asia
IScholarly Inquiry
IIStrategic Clarity
IIIGlobal Relevance
About IPGA
An Indian reading of world affairs.
Indian Perspective on Global Affairs unites rigorous academic research with incisive policy commentary. Its scholarship examines how India forges partnerships, safeguards its security and shapes the institutions of a rebalancing international order, drawing on realist, constructivist and civilisational traditions of statecraft.
1,500+Well-researched, analytical pieces
10Research programmes
15+Years of research, teaching, supervision, counselling and consultancy
Vision
Power in transition, interpreted from New Delhi: India's place in the world argued with evidence, historical depth and strategic autonomy, through frames forged in India's own intellectual tradition.
Signature
Scholarly inquiry. Strategic clarity. Global relevance. These three standards govern every column, study and commentary IPGA publishes.
Intellectual approach
History, strategy and political economy, read together.
IPGA's method is field-informed and theory-driven. It connects the daily rhythm of diplomacy to the longer arcs of history, security and political economy, and it places civilisational perspective at the very centre of strategic analysis.
Historical depth
Contemporary statecraft is read across the longue durée: civilisational encounter, the political economy of exchange, and the institutional memory through which enduring partnerships are built.
Strategic clarity
National security, diplomacy and foreign policy are analysed as one integrated argument. Every claim earns its place through its power to explain how influence is distributed and exercised.
Evidence
Columns, studies and commentary rest on named events, institutions and verifiable sources. Precision of date, place and record gives each argument its authority and lasting value.
Research programmes
Ten programmes, one strategic lens.
Each programme gathers a sustained body of published analysis on a region or question central to India's place in the world. Together they span more than 1,500 well-researched and analytical pieces, and many pieces illuminate several programmes at once.
Analytical perspectives
Recent and essential reading.
A curated selection from more than 1,500 published pieces. Each opens in its original outlet, and the reading room below gathers the wider collection.
Global South & Multilateral Order
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.
Dr. Maheep · The European Times · 11 Sept 2026
Political Economy · 23 Oct 2026The Chokepoint Paradox: India's Search for Strategic Indispensability
From Hormuz to the critical-mineral chain, India's vulnerability at the world's chokepoints becomes an opening to serve as the trusted provider of refining, minerals and maritime security.
Central Asia & SCO · 22 Oct 2026Dushanbe’s Diplomatic Fault Lines: India, China, Pakistan and the Contest for EurasiaAt the SCO Heads of Government meeting, India pressed counter-terrorism, sovereign connectivity and outcome-driven multilateralism, with clear signals to Beijing and Islamabad.
West Asia · 17 Oct 2026The Hinge of Two Seas: Abu Dhabi, Tbilisi and the Widening Compass of Indian DiplomacyDr Jaishankar's journey joins the enduring India-UAE partnership to a widening engagement with Georgia and the Caucasus.
Annual assessment · 2 Jan 2026India and the World 2025: Power with Prudence in a Fragmented World
A year of Indian statecraft read as one sustained argument for measured power, strategic autonomy and partnership across a divided order.
Annual assessment · 1 Jan 2026India-West Asia 2025: Strategic Consolidation Through TurbulenceHow New Delhi deepened its Gulf and Levant partnerships through a year of conflict, ceasefire and recalibration.
In the press
Published across leading dailies.
Well-researched, nuanced and critically analysed pieces appear regularly in The European Times. Commentary and analysis also reach readers through India's foremost national dailies and respected newspapers across South and Southeast Asia.
- The European Times
- ANI
- The Hindu
- The Indian Express
- The Times of India
- The Tribune
- The Economic Times
- Business Standard
- Asian Lite
- Daily Sun, Dhaka
- Newswire, Colombo
- The Singapore Post
IPGA studies
Long-form research.
Full-length studies by the Director, published here in their entirety. Each carries the argument, apparatus and depth of sustained scholarly research.
International relations theory · West Asia Academic Group
The Original Grammar of Power
Realism and the Governing Logic of a Multipolar Century, from Kautilya to Artificial Intelligence
A trans-civilisational reassessment of realism that recovers the Arthashastra beside Thucydides and Hobbes, tests the tradition against its principal rivals, and reads India's strategic autonomy as realist statecraft rooted in an indigenous civilisational inheritance.Read the study · PDF, 16 pages West Asia studies · 14 July 2026The Father Emir and the Making of Modern Qatar
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (1952–2026), His Enduring Legacy, and the India–Qatar Strategic Partnership in a Multipolar World
Read the study · PDF, 23 pages South Asia studies · March 2026The Verdict in the Himalayas
Nepal's Gen-Z Electoral Earthquake, the Ascendancy of Balendra Shah, and the Strategic Calculus of India and China
Read the study · PDF, 27 pages Strategic studiesFriends of All, Friend of None
Pakistan’s Multi-Alignment, Domestic Fragility, and the Multipolar Trap
Read the study Civilisational studiesIndia in the Arab and Islamicate Travel Imagination
Civilisational Encounters and Representations of a Golden Age from Sulaymān al-Tājir to ʿAbd al-Razzāq
Read the studyAnalytical frameworks
The IPGA vocabulary.
Original concepts developed across IPGA's writing to illuminate security, power and resilience 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.
Leadership
Dr. Maheep
Director, Indian Perspective on Global Affairs · New Delhi
Dr. Maheep is a scholar of international relations, global politics and strategic affairs. His expertise spans India's foreign policy, diplomacy and national security, South Asian geopolitics and West Asian affairs, with particular depth on the Arab Gulf. He holds a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies, brings more than fifteen years of research, teaching, supervision, counselling and consultancy experience, and serves as President of the West Asia Academic Group. His published work exceeds 1,500 pieces across leading national and international outlets, forming a sustained, chronicled reading of India's ascent in a multipolar age.
His work has taken him to Barker Langham, the British Library, the University of Exeter, Qatar University, Qatar Foundation, the University of Delhi, IGNOU, the Abu Dhabi Cultural Attaché and Jamia Millia Islamia. It unites historical understanding, civilisational perspective and political economy with the geopolitics of a changing order. Through The European Times, ANI, Asian Lite and IPGA, he advances an Indian reading of world affairs: strategic autonomy, civilisational diplomacy, the priorities of the Global South and the architecture of multipolar governance.
- Doctorate
- PhD, Arab and Islamic Studies
- Office
- President, West Asia Academic Group
- Focus
- India, the Gulf and South Asia
- Published work
- 1,500+ pieces
- Column
- The European Times
Academic engagement
Where the work has been carried.
These institutions mark the milestones of a career in teaching, research, consultancy and international academic engagement, from London and Exeter to Doha, Abu Dhabi and New Delhi.
- Barker Langham
- British Library
- University of Exeter
- Qatar University
- Qatar Foundation
- University of Delhi
- IGNOU
- Abu Dhabi Cultural Attaché
- Jamia Millia Islamia
- West Asia Academic Group
Publications
The reading room.
A selection from more than 1,500 published pieces: The European Times column, analyses for ANI, Asian Lite and leading outlets across Asia, and the IPGA studies hosted on this site. Each title opens at its original link. pieces in this selection.
Contact
Write to the Director.
For academic collaboration, media requests and invitations to speak. Correspondence reaches the New Delhi office directly.
Office
Indian Perspective on Global Affairs
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Correspondence
Media & columns
Well-researched, nuanced and critically analysed pieces appear regularly in The European Times, with commentary across leading dailies in India and Asia.