Author: Nishakant Ojha

As economics replaces warfare as the primary instrument of power, India’s resilience, autonomy and leadership offer a critical counterweight to a fractured global order. The nature of global power has changed more decisively in the past decade than in the previous half-century. Conflict today rarely announces itself through declarations of war or advancing armies. Instead, it unfolds through frozen foreign exchange reserves, disrupted supply chains, denied technologies and manipulated markets. Economic terrorism has emerged as a defining instrument of contemporary geopolitics, a form of coercion that inflicts long-term structural damage while remaining legally ambiguous and politically convenient. Economic terrorism operates…