Nexus Articles

  • South Asia, symbolic warfare, territorial claims, cartography, Arunachal Pradesh, Shanghai detention, Sindh remark, Nepal currency notes, Lipulekh-Kalapani-Limpiyadhura, Akhand Bharat mural

Proximity, Perception, and Pushback in South Asia

By |2026-01-07T11:45:32-10:00January 7, 2026|

Since 2014, India has articulated its regional strategy through the framework of Neighborhood First, a policy premised on the idea that proximity, interdependence, and sustained engagement would anchor stability across South Asia. The intent has been clear: to reduce [...]

  • South Asia, symbolic warfare, territorial claims, cartography, Arunachal Pradesh, Shanghai detention, Sindh remark, Nepal currency notes, Lipulekh-Kalapani-Limpiyadhura, Akhand Bharat mural

 When Maps Begin to Move

By |2025-12-18T15:10:01-10:00December 18, 2025|

Three incidents in one week: a detained traveler in Shanghai, a revived claim on Sindh, and a currency note from Kathmandu, reveal a South Asia where small symbols now carry the weight of territorial claims. The danger lies not [...]

Start Human, End Human: A Practical Framework for Large Language Models in Indo-Pacific Security Cooperation

By |2025-12-12T14:07:45-10:00December 12, 2025|

DKI APCSS Fellow, Major, United States Air Force Abstract Security professionals across the Indo-Pacific face an urgent challenge: leveraging large language models (LLMs) for enhanced decision-making while navigating United States-China technology competition, language barriers, and sovereignty concerns. Research demonstrates [...]

Critical Minerals and Coercive Power in the Indo-Pacific

By |2025-12-11T16:04:38-10:00December 11, 2025|

Critical minerals, including rare earth elements, and the intermediate compounds derived from them, underpin advanced defense manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, battery storage, precision guidance systems, and secure communications infrastructure. Although these reserves are globally dispersed, the Indo-Pacific concentrates the most [...]

The Cage of Equidistance

By |2025-09-09T11:22:53-10:00September 9, 2025|

The Illusion of “Will Not” India today projects itself as a master of balance. Its diplomats speak the language of multipolarity. One week, the Prime Minister embraces Vladimir Putin, the next he hosts American defense executives, while quietly signaling [...]

Iran’s Terrorism and Insurgency in the Indo-Pacific: Implications for the U.S. and its Partners.

By |2025-09-11T09:39:37-10:00September 8, 2025|

When one thinks of terrorism and insurgency in the Indo-Pacific over the past three decades, certain organizations and countries immediately come to mind.  The list is exhaustive: ISIS and Al Qaeda and their associates, Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Sayyaf, Communist rebels [...]

The Illusion of Going It Alone

By |2025-08-21T15:45:55-10:00August 21, 2025|

India has always believed it could chart its own course. That belief, rooted in the bitter memory of empire and the long shadow of the Cold War, became policy: a refusal to join alliances, a conviction that true sovereignty [...]

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