Manish Dhankhar

Balaji is a freelance writer with an MA in History and Political science and has published articles on defense and strategic affairs and writes book reviews. He tweets @LaxmanShriram78. Views expressed are the author’s own.

Yashashri Dattaraj Saidam is an intern at CNAWS. She is a final-year Master’s student in Defence and Strategic Studies at Rashtriya Raksha University. Her academic interests include national security strategy, terrorism, and military intelligence. She aspires to build a career in the field of strategic research and national security policymaking.

Rahul Kumar Tiwari is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. He holds a B.A. (Honors) in Political Science (2019) and an M.A. in Political Science (2021) from the University of Delhi, India. He qualified for the University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) with a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in 2022. His research interests include geopolitics, security and Hybrid Warfare studies.

Bhavya Chaturvedi is a Senior research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan. His research interests include energy security, solar diplomacy, hybrid warfare, strategic studies, and contemporary geopolitical competition. His ongoing research focuses on the comparative foreign policy approaches of India and China in the field of renewable energy and the growing role of solar diplomacy in global geopolitics. He is also interested in the evolving nature of hybrid warfare, including information warfare, OSINT, cyber influence operations, strategic infrastructure vulnerabilities, and non-conventional security challenges. His work examines the intersection of energy transitions, foreign policy, and emerging strategic threats in the contemporary international order.