As great power rivalries intensify from the Arctic to West Asia, India and the Nordic countries are deepening cooperation across trade, technology, and geopolitics. PM Modi is set to visit Oslo, Norway, for the third India-Nordic Summit in May 2026. Initiated in 2018, in Stockholm, Sweden, this engagement has, over the years, focused on innovation, technology, climate change, renewable energy, the blue economy, and maritime cooperation. Illustration by The Geostrata This year

The India-ASEAN narrative has evolved from a position of optimism in 2017 as the dialogue partnership turned 25, to a narrative of resurgence in 2022, and finally, the narrative of strategic repositioning and imperative reclamation as of today. What started as an executionary mechanism to India’s Look East Policy has now given rise to a regional partnership that has withstood geopolitical tremors and a systemic dismantling of the global order.

The European Union (EU) and Mercosur free trade agreement, and the two parties reached an agreement in 2019. The talks between the free...