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Subhadeep Bhattacharya

Subhadeep Bhattacharya

Subhadeep Bhattacharya is a freelance academic with degrees in foreign policy studies and area (South & Southeast Asia) studies from University of Calcutta. He is associated as Adjunct Researcher at the Asia in Global Affairs (AGA), Kolkata. Previously he was associated as Fellow with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS, autonomous institute under Govt of India), Kolkata and as Research Assistant with Netaji Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS, under Govt of West Bengal), Kolkata. He has authored two books- Looking East since 1947: India’s Southeast Asia Policy and Understanding South China Sea Geopolitics and co-authored Indo-Vietnam Relations in Emerging Global Order and Then and Now: India’s Relations with Indonesia, A Historical Overview. He has also contributed in many edited volumes, national and international journals and web article pages.

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    US–Indonesia Defence Deal Can Boost India’s Indo-Pacific Strategy

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya April 29, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya April 29, 2026

    In 1939, as the storm of World War II was gathering over Europe and Asia, the Neville Chamberlain government found itself overwhelmed while handling challenges in the nearby Mediterranean Sea …

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    Pakistan’s ‘Open War’ on Afghanistan Advances India’s Taliban Outreach

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya April 14, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya April 14, 2026

    The appointment of Noor Ahmad Noor as the Taliban regime’s new chargé d’affaires to India this January, when juxtaposed with the direction of Taliban Minister for Tribal Affairs Nurullah Nouri …

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    BrahMos Deal with Indonesia Boosts India’s Indo-Pacific Strategy

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya April 7, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya April 7, 2026

    The ongoing US–Israel–Iran conflict has, on the one hand, sent shockwaves through global energy supply chains, especially in Asia. On the other hand, it has made US allies and partners …

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    Balen Shah’s ‘New Nepal’ Can Refresh India Policy

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 28, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 28, 2026

    At the dawn of 2026, as South Asia bathed in the cheerful wave of democratic celebrations in Bangladesh and Nepal, the results of the public mandate were equally significant. When …

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    Shadows on the Border: Foreign Hands in Northeast India’s Unrest

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 26, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 26, 2026

    Unrest in the neighbourhood naturally has spillover effects, but it takes an insidious turn when attempts are made to associate the mayhem with a larger geostrategic game plan by the …

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    Pakistan’s ‘OPEN WAR’ On Afghanistan: TTP Looks Secondary as a Reason

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 16, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 16, 2026

    Asim Munir may be happy as a gopher in soft dirt, anointing himself as the de facto ruler of Pakistan, but he should be bewailing this apparent misadventure. His country …

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    Unveiling the Tarique Era: What’s in a ‘New Bangladesh’ for india?

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 11, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya March 11, 2026

    As Tarique Rahman was taking the oath as Bangladesh’s eleventh prime minister on a pleasant spring evening of 17th February, he was setting the dawn of a new era.   The …

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    India and Africa: A Partnership of Potentiality

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya February 27, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya February 27, 2026

    Seven decades ago, when India jointly organized the Asia-Africa Summit in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955, the urge was to project the resolution of the two great continents to jointly …

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    Pakistan: The Goose Laying Golden Eggs for the Military Oligarchs

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya February 18, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya February 18, 2026

    During its counterinsurgency operations (COIN) in the restive Afghanistan-Pakistan border in post 9/11 era, the Pakistan Army sustained immense casualties at the hands of the Al-Qaeda and Taliban, who went …

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    An Election With a Difference?: What a ‘New Bangladesh’ May Mean

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya February 7, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya February 7, 2026

    Greek philosopher Aristotle termed democracy the most perverted form of government, where many, as rulers, disregard the common interest. However, the aspiring leaders of Bangladesh appear to be competing with …

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    Pakistan’s Defence Export Mission: More Marketing Than a Real Economic Strategy

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 27, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 27, 2026

    The op-ed article titled It Is Over, authored by U.S based Pakistani PhD scholar Zorain Nizamani, published on 1st January this year but removed within hours of its publication in Express …

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    India’s BRICS Test: Leadership in a World Divided

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 9, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 9, 2026

    The 21st-century international relations are viewed in terms of the attrition of Western dominance and the simultaneous rise of the non-Western world. Eminent scholar Kishore Mahbubani, in his book The …

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    Violence Over Extremist’s Death: Bangladesh Sending an Ominous Sign

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya December 23, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya December 23, 2025

    The US secret report on the Bangladesh Liberation War prophesied on 6th December 1971, just days before Pakistan surrendered to the Indian Army, that the propensity of extremism, radicalism, and …

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    Crave for Hegemony Wreaks Both BRI and China’s Image

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya December 18, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya December 18, 2025

    The celebrated Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is bringing more shame than success to the home government. Nepal’s anti-corruption body has recently filed criminal charges against a Chinese State-owned construction …

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    Act East Reloaded: How India’s BrahMos Diplomacy Is Redefining Southeast Asia

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya November 25, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya November 25, 2025

    India’s relations with Southeast Asia have evolved with time, from economic collaboration under the Look East Policy of the 1990s to strategic and security cooperation at the turn of the …

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    Pig-Butchering Scam: India’s Latest War-Front Against Cybercrime

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya November 14, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya November 14, 2025

    The civil war ravaging Myanmar, which is pushing refugees across the border to India, is also entrapping the Indian citizens in its den of cybercrime. The recent reports of 500 …

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    The Folly of Bangladesh’s Military Obsession

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya October 29, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya October 29, 2025

    Security dilemma, amidst the existential condition of uncertainty in international relations, is a familiar predicament experienced by the decision makers of states. The recent decision of the interim government of Bangladesh to …

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    How Pakistan’s India Fixation Obscures the Real Af-Pak Crisis

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya October 18, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya October 18, 2025

    Lord Curzon, while delivering a lecture on frontiers at Oxford University in 1907, said that frontiers are the chief anxiety of nearly every foreign office in the civilized world. If …

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    Can USA Afford to Lose India for Trump?

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya September 10, 2025
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya September 10, 2025

    ‘India is a Laundromat for the Kremlin’ is the latest accusation of Team Trump in reference to India’s continuous buying of Russian oil. President Donald Trump’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro, …

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