Karthik Nachiappan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (Ottawa). His research focuses on India’s geoeconomics, how issues like trade, technology, and climate change affect Indian foreign policy and how India’s positions on these issues shape Indo-Pacific security dynamics. He is the author of Does India Negotiate? (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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ISAS National University of Singapore
Assets Without Access: India’s Deepening Economic Stake in Sri Lanka
Karthik Nachiappan | August 14, 2026
India’s economic footprint in Sri Lanka currently outweighs Sri Lanka’s capacity to benefit from the relationship. Growing interdependence will require additional market access, local value creation and credible safeguards alongside investment for both parties.
India Initiative
ISAS National University of Singapore
India’s AI Diplomacy through the AI Impact Summit
Karthik Nachiappan | February 23, 2026
India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Summit in February 2026 illustrates how New Delhi is using diplomacy to align development ambitions, technology sovereignty and geoeconomic strategy – reframing global AI governance around access, democratisation and Global South inclusion while deepening strategic supply-chain partnerships.
India Initiative
Eurasia Review
India’s National Security Strategy: Critical And Emerging Technologies – Analysis
Karthik Nachiappan | August 5, 2026
Critical and emerging technologies (CETs), including artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, cyber capabilities, quantum technologies, drones, advanced communications and space systems, are increasingly central to India’s evolving national security strategy. These technologies are reshaping how India prepares for conflict, protects its economic interests, manages strategic competition and structures its partnerships.
India Initiative
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Eurasia Review
India’s National Security Strategy: Critical And Emerging Technologies – Analysis
August 5, 2026
Critical and emerging technologies (CETs), including artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, cyber capabilities, quantum technologies, drones, advanced communications and space systems, are increasingly central to India’s evolving national security strategy.
India Initiative, AI and Quantum Initiative