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Vikas Bhardwaj

Vikas Bhardwaj

Vikas Bhardwaj is a scholar of international political economy, holding a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His work focuses on economic statecraft, sanctions, energy geopolitics, and global economic governance. He has worked as a researcher with numerous institutions, including the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), contributing to multiple policy evaluation projects commissioned by Government of India ministries. Bhardwaj holds nine academic degrees and has published in international peer-reviewed journals on the Russian economy, geopolitical conflict, and shifting global power dynamics.

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    From Moral Lectures to Strategic Realities: Normative Decline, Structural Multipolarity and the End of Uncontested Western Legitimacy

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 17, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 17, 2026

    When India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar responded to a Finnish interlocutor’s criticism of Indian oil purchases from Russia — ‘I buy oil based on cost and availability’ — the …

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    Caught in Someone Else’s War: The Rising Cost of the Strait of Hormuz Crisis for India

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 16, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 16, 2026

    Three Indian merchant mariners died in the Strait of Hormuz in late 2023 and early 2024 as drone attacks struck vessels they crewed. India’s diplomatic protest was duly registered and …

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    From Economic Grievances to Political Resistance: The Evolving Crisis in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 14, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 14, 2026

    Pakistan has administered the territory it calls Azad Jammu and Kashmir for more than seven decades under a governance model whose central contradiction has now become inescapable: Islamabad presents the …

  • Opinion

    Xi’s North Korea Dilemma: How Russia’s War Weakened China’s Leverage Over Pyongyang

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 14, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 14, 2026

    Russia’s war in Ukraine has transformed North Korea from China’s dependent buffer into a more autonomous strategic actor—weakening Beijing’s exclusive leverage and generating cascading security dilemmas across Northeast Asia. INTRODUCTION …

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    Pakistan’s Abraham Accords Trap: Caught Between Washington’s Demands and the Monsters of Its Own Making

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 11, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 11, 2026

    When Donald Trump urged Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords on a May 2026 conference call, the silence on the line was revealing. Pakistan’s …

  • Opinion

    Brussels Blinks: How the EU-Pakistan Dialogue Exposed Europe’s Double Standards on Kashmir

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 8, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 8, 2026

    India did not merely reject a communiqué. It rejected a pattern — and the world should pay attention. In June 2026, the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas flew …

  • Opinion

    Between Moscow and the Gulf

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 4, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 4, 2026

    India’s Energy Diplomacy in an Age of War, Sanctions and Strategic Fragmentation Introduction: The Puzzle of the Non-Aligned Buyer In February 2026, under a framework agreement that cut American tariffs …

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    The Beijing Triangle: How the Iran Crisis Is Recasting U.S.–China–Russia Relations

    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 1, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj June 1, 2026

    When rivals need each other, the rules of power change. The Iran crisis is rewriting them in real time. There is a moment in every great crisis when the map …

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    The Geopolitics of Removal: Pakistan, America and the Cipher That Would Not Stay Secret

    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 22, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 22, 2026

    On 17–18 May 2026, Drop Site News published Cable I-0678 in full — the classified Pakistani diplomatic cipher that Imran Khan had cited since April 2022 as evidence of American …

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    From Strait to Systemic Shock: How the US–Iran Conflict is Reshaping the Global Economic Order

    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 8, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 8, 2026

    The escalation of the U.S.–Iran conflict in early 2026 has transitioned from a localized security crisis to a systemic reset of the international economic order. This paper provides a comprehensive, …

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    The Strait That Shook Islamabad

    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 4, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 4, 2026

    How the US–Iran Confrontation Is Transmitting an Oil Shock Through Pakistan’s Economy — and Why the Region Cannot Afford to Look Away The escalating military and diplomatic confrontation between the …

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    UAE’s Exit and the Changing Dynamics of Oil Markets: An Indian Perspective

    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 3, 2026
    by Vikas Bhardwaj May 3, 2026

    On April 29, 2026, the United Arab Emirates formally terminated its 59-year membership in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The announcement, made in Abu Dhabi, was measured …

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