Archives

Our archives are a repository of original thinking that chronicles two decades of research, analysis, and policy innovation. This collection brings together articles written by SFG’s founders and research analysts between 2005 and 2025, preserving the ideas, and insights that shaped our intellectual journey. These writings reflect the evolution of our thinking as we engaged with some of the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.

The archive offers a rich body of material for researchers, policymakers, students, journalists, and anyone interested in understanding complex global issues through a long-term strategic lens. The articles explore a wide spectrum of subjects, including peace and conflict, water diplomacy, international relations, technology, environmental sustainability, governance, security, and the changing dynamics of regional and global cooperation. They also place regional developments within broader international and geopolitical contexts.

Many of these articles anticipated trends and policy challenges that later became central to international discourse. Others document the development of concepts and frameworks that informed SFG’s subsequent research, dialogues, and publications. Together, they provide not only historical context but also enduring perspectives that continue to resonate in a rapidly changing world.

Beyond serving as a research resource, this archive offers a window into the intellectual history of SFG. It traces how our ideas evolved over time, how new policy concepts emerged through sustained inquiry, and how our engagement expanded from regional concerns to global challenges. Readers can follow the progression of our work across changing geopolitical landscapes and appreciate our evidence-based approaches to peace, security, and international cooperation.

Whether you are revisiting landmark analyses, exploring the origins of key policy ideas, or discovering our work for the first time, we hope these archives provide valuable insights, stimulate informed debate, and inspire fresh thinking about the future.

Modernisation and integration

Professor Balazs, Director of the Center for EU Enlargement Studies writes on Modernisation and Integration.

Full text of the briefing by Dr Sundeep Waslekar at the UNSC

SFG president Dr Waslekar addressed the UNSC debate on 'Water, Peace and Security'.

Commitment towards drinking water

Geologist Engineer Osiris de Leon writes about commitment towards drinking water.

Will the politics of knowledge determine power contours?

The Head of Manipal Centre for European Studies, writes about politics of knowledge.

The Malaise of the Post-Modern World

Ms Chandhoke, National Fellow at ICSSR, writes about secularism in the face of religion and new-age beliefs.

Future of global food security without small farmers

Dr Dutta, senior international security professor at the University of New South Wales, writes about the role of small farmers in agribusiness and future