Arushi Singh is a PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University and a writer for the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers. She graduated with an MA from the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations (GIR) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India. Her areas of interest include the geopolitics of West Asia, geopolitical implications of great power competition in Africa, Russia’s foreign policy orientations, and emerging technologies.