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@dryanamandra reviews Bambawale et al.'s 'Rising to the China Challenge' alongside @theChinaDude's 'Taming the Dragon', tracing how India's China strategy has moved from strategic patience to operational tools across military, trade, and diplomacy. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

@am_i_t_kumar and @pranaykotas assess China's 2023–25 export controls on gallium and germanium, finding that despite sharp price volatility, Beijing failed to secure lasting leverage as the US diversified suppliers and built domestic capability. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

Jaimine Vaishnav traces the political economy of Nathu La Pass border trade, finding that regulatory restrictions, not weak demand, have suppressed formal trade and fuelled informal exchange, and calls for calibrated reform. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

Ajay Kumar Mishra and Shraddha Rishi examine India's economic and strategic entanglement with China, arguing that India should diversify its supply chains, expand geoeconomic partnerships, and adopt flexible diplomacy. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

Konthoujam Sarda and @ajit_ranade examine China's state-directed higher-education transformation, identifying a 'concentration paradox' - elite targeting with fiscal restraint outperforming broad expansion. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

A special issue of IPPR on Indian Perspectives on China Policy is out! It covers higher education strategy, economic and strategic entanglement, border trade, weaponisation of critical minerals, and the evolution of India’s thinking on China. Read on. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/issue…

If you are a scholar in the field of public policy, economics, tech policy, defence and strategic affairs or other related fields, consider submitting your work to IPPR, which is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for publishers and readers. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/about…

Bhumika Sevkani reviews @PatrickMcGee_ 's ‘Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company’, which examines the strategic consequences of Apple’s deep manufacturing integration with China. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

Using expenditure data from NSSO, DK Srivastava, Muralikrishna Bharadwaj, Ragini Trehan and Tarrung Kapur find that urban inequality is higher than rural inequality in all three reference years, and that both have fallen over time. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

Jos Chathukulam’s paper on integrating doughnut economics into people’s planning explores how its principles could strengthen Kerala’s decentralisation experiment. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

Drawing from Digital Public Infrastructure cases, Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra introduces Responsibility Retention Capacity (RRC) as a diagnostic framework for assessing whether governance arrangements keep responsibility traceable, contestable, and revisable. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

@TheNaikMic argues that biotechnology's most consequential near-term contribution to defence lies in resilience-building rather than offensive use. She proposes a framework that combines technology readiness, military adoptability, and strategic impact. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…

The latest issue of IPPR is out! The May edition features thought-provoking papers on military resilience, governance, decentralisation, and inequality among middle-expenditure groups. Read on. ippr.in/index.php/ippr/issue…

We are running a China special edition soon. So, if you want to submit your papers on India's perspectives on China policy, please submit your papers here: ippr.in/index.php/ippr/about…

Finally, M S Sriram reviews Devesh Kapur and @arvindsubraman's A Sixth of Humanity- a book that portrays India’s post-independence development as shaped by a “precocious” democracy with ambitious goals but weak institutional foundations. doi.org/10.55763/ippr.2026.0…

Pracheta Acharya argues that India’s forest-based ecological fiscal transfer criterion is too narrow, and should become a multidimensional environmental component reflecting wider conservation responsibilities and costs. doi.org/10.55763/ippr.2026.0…