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Exclusive: India reduces gas supply to industries after Qatar outage, sources say Indian companies on Tuesday reduced natural gas supplies to industries in anticipation of tighter supply from ​the Middle East after top producer Qatar halted production, four ‌industry sources with k...

gas rationing in india www.reuters.com/business/ene...

AI Literacy for Studying, Thesis Research, and Life A practical, no-hype intro to AI literacy for studying, thesis research, and careers. We’ll cover how modern AI works (and where it fails), how to use it to learn faster without losing skills, and how...

📢 New lecture: 'AI Literacy for Studying, Thesis Research, and Life' by @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social 🔎

📆 Wednesday 11 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
📍Room 3B.38, Spui Campus, The Hague

➡️More info and registration here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

China did NOT move "quickly to condemn the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran" Technically, Beijing only condemned the attack and killing of Khamenei and the attack on the girls' school. And it basically condemned Iran for attacking other Gulf countries.

Here Chinese influence operative Wang Zichen of UFWD-backed CCG usefully draws attention to how limited Beijing’s condemnation of the attacks on Iran was: www.pekingnology.com/p/china-did-...

Hegseth confirms right now it was a US submarine which sunk the Iranian warship close to SL. This leads to a series of questions over coordination or not with India (which had initially invited this warship for an exercise in the Indian Ocean)...
www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

Now for those asking, what is an Iranian warship doing in this area of the Indian Ocean? The Iranian ship had been invited to participate in the MILAN 2026 naval exercises in India (yes, just as PM Modi was visiting Israel)

Iranian warship sinks after apparent submarine attack near Sri Lanka; 101 said missing Unclear who attacked frigate, which was armed with missiles and torpedoes and could carry a helicopter, but US military has said it aims to sink Iran's 'entire navy'

The US/Israel-Iran war spills over unexpectedly to South Asia as Iran warship is apparently sunk by (US?) submarine near Sri Lanka www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-wars...

Surely this could have been anticipated…and GOP complained about Kabul

White letters "IO" on a purple background with the hashtag "OpenAccess" below.

"How does racism structure the patterns of cooperation and contestation in international relations?"

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -

Institutional Racism in International Relations - https://cup.org/4cpj5Yh

- @lipscy.bsky.social & @jiajia.bsky.social

#FirstView

Just throwing this out there. It’s Tuesday.

To all those colleague who told me repeatedly over the past year that Europe would never, ever move towards any sort of stand-alone military alliance or nuclear capacity--a reminder that we all need to unleash our political imaginations to even begin to grasp the world we live in today.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026

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🔍️ Research project “Waging of War” (WOW), funded by the European Research Council
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In this great collection, I examine how India’s foreign policy, traditionally centralized in New Delhi, has become increasingly shaped by regional actors, using insights from paradiplomacy & coalition politics scholarships @andrewwyatt.bsky.social @katadeney.bsky.social @wilfriedswenden.bsky.social

great papers also from @claryc.bsky.social @shubhakprasad.bsky.social @raphaellekhan.bsky.social @rohitlamba.bsky.social @anuradhas.bsky.social Pradyumna Jairam CC: @polscileiden.bsky.social

Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 2025​ Editor’s Introduction Rahul Mukherji Guest Editor’s Introduction: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India Rohan Mukherjee RESEARCH Provincializing India’s Foreign Policy: Unpacking ...

Honored to have contributed to this excellent collection edited by @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social of papers looking at how domestic changes have shaped India's foreign policy over time but especially the last decade. I focused on the regional origins of India's FP

www.ippjournal.org/volume-5-num...

Yep, it’s me again, a political scientist who studies war. This is a war.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

Military officials question fortifications at site where U.S. troops were killed in Iranian strike The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, sources told CBS News.

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

Institute member @sldelange.bsky.social, with @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social and @bartschuurman.bsky.social, argues in de Volkskrant that Europe is underestimating the two-front pressure on its liberal democracies — from Moscow and Washington, backed by the far right in Europe.

There were always concerns about US security guarantees waning, explaining some long term hedging strategies from some GCC states. Now, few predicted the US would itself deliberately start the crisis undermining them…

Three side-by-side line charts titled “Natural gas prices have surged in Europe and Asia this week”, showing daily prices rebased to 100 in September 2025. In Europe and the UK, prices hover around 100 through autumn 2025, dip below 90 around January 2026, then spike sharply in early March 2026 to roughly 180–195. In Asia, prices follow a similar pattern but rise less steeply, climbing from around 100 to about 130–135 in early March 2026. Sources: Refinitiv and S&P Global Energy.

Two-panel line chart titled “The natural gas price rally still has a long way to go to match 2022”. Top panel shows the European benchmark gas price over the past six months (€/MWh), fluctuating mostly between €27 and €35 before rising sharply in late February 2026 to about €58. Bottom panel shows weekly prices over the past five years. Prices surge dramatically in 2022, peaking above €300 per MWh, then fall back and stabilise mostly between €20 and €60 through 2023–2025. The recent 2026 uptick, marked on the far right, remains far below the 2022 peak. Source: Refinitiv.

Conflict in the Middle East has sent gas prices surging across Europe and Asia. But the spike remains modest compared with 2022 when Putin's Ukraine invasion sent prices almost seven times higher.

Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 How serious is the Middle East gas price shock? ft.trib.al/K7RVfvL

Role of Indian labor in Israel’s post-war recovery | The Jerusalem Post The entry of Indian blue-collar labor into the construction segment marks a structural shift in how Israel sources labor, manages risk, and builds resilience in an era of chronic insecurity.

Beyond India-Israel defense ties: India’s quiet role in Israel’s labor reset after Oct. 7. The entry of Indian blue-collar labor into the construction segment marks a structural shift in how Israel sources labor, manages risk, & builds resilience www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s Shifting Goals for Iran Complicate Military’s Mission President Trump and his allies offered at least two separate objectives Sunday for the assault on Iran, muddying U.S. intentions for ending a conflict that has killed three American servicemembers.

"It is possible that Trump’s military campaign doesn’t overthrow the regime & that his attempts at a deal similarly fail. In such a scenario, 'Trump could find himself with no regime change, no deal and no capacity to honor the promises he’s made to the Iranian people.'"
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Look at this chart

This indicates again this was a war of Trump's choice. This is important to remember for future accountability.

Iran-US-Israel tensions | Delhi on high alert: Police increase security, impose prohibitory orders in diplomatic area Police said barricades have been put up around the US and Israeli embassies and officers are tracking social media for sensitive content.

Iran-US-Israel tensions: Delhi on high alert: Police increase security, impose prohibitory orders in diplomatic area. This is not a trivial contingency procedure as there has been a prior IRGC attack against Israeli diplomats in Delhi in 2012 indianexpress.com/article/citi...

Cover of book, with satellite view of the Suez Canal

@janeijking.com, The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere - @academic.oup.com, July 2026
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Concerns now from specific Indian states (Kerala & Punjab) about the welfare of their citizens in the Gulf & pressuring the Indian government to evacuate stranded workers indianexpress.com/article/citi...

Opinion: Two wrongs don’t make a right in the Iran war U.S. administration has no apparent plan for the complicated day after in Iran, and its people deserve better

As I argue in this piece, "Iranians deserve far better than the regime that has ruled them. They deserve equally better than an intervention that treats their future as an afterthought."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Problem remains of lack a clear vision & contingency plan on how to protect Indians in West Asia based on India’s new key partnerships. Were these concerns discussed in Israel this week, whether it is about workers in Israel or in broader region if conflict w Iran escalates?

'There is panic all around': Keralites in West Asia describe life under uncertainty as Iran vows more attacks THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thousands of Malayali families across the Gulf found themselves bracing for uncertainty amid sirens and sleepless nights after Iran retaliat

One of various reasons India wanted to prevent an escalation: its 9 million diaspora in West Asia, a majority living in the GCC. 'There is panic all around': Keralites in West Asia describe life under uncertainty as Iran vows more attacks www.newindianexpress.com/states/keral...