Abhijit Singh

Abhijit Singh
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A former naval officer, Abhijit Singh, is a Senior Fellow at New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation and head of the Maritime Policy Initiative. A maritime professional with specialist and command experience in front-line Indian naval ships, he is a keen commentator on maritime matters and writes regularly on security and governance issues in the Indo Pacific region. Editor of two books on maritime security - Indian Ocean Challenges: a Quest for Cooperative Solutions (2013) and Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific (2014), Abhijit contributed to the writing of India’s maritime strategy (2007). He also assisted the late Vice Admiral GM Hiranandani (Retd) in the authorship of the third volume of Indian Naval History, Transition to Guardianship (2010).

Indian Ocean ‘leadership’? Delhi’s boasts ignore reality
Indian Ocean ‘leadership’? Delhi’s boasts ignore reality
Delhi’s political rhetoric about its dominant position in the Indian Ocean ignore the facts.
India-Australia relations: Getting over the Quad blues
India-Australia relations: Getting over the Quad blues
The view that India is reluctant to engage Australia in a multilateral naval setting because it is wary of Canberra’s strategic credentials lacks merit.
Countering China’s submarine operations in South Asia
Countering China’s submarine operations in South Asia
If India does not move to protect its equities, South Asia could soon fall under the sway of China's rapidly expanding maritime power.
India remains cautious about the 'quad'
India remains cautious about the 'quad'
Indian policymakers still shy away from a grand maritime alliance in the Indo-Pacific.
The anatomy of a political warning
What India's maritime mandarins overlook: It's not always about economics
The shifting contours of China's maritime strategy
An emerging security quartet in the Indo-Pacific?
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