Alliance politics lies at the heart of contemporary international security, shaping how states choose friends and foes, distribute risk, and project power. Formal alliances bind governments through ...

India is heading into a fresh round of state polls and by-elections, with alliances between political parties once again taking centre stage in the country’s electoral dynamics. High-stakes assembly ...

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many scholars, particularly realists, argue that more states will now seek nuclearization. Their nuclear weapons would give them a more credible deterrence in the ...