At times when Iran’s resistance is beleaguered, Vali Nasr’s book, “The Grand Strategy of Iran: A Political History”, traces the long-term strategic logic centred on […]
European Security Architecture after Ukraine: Between NATO Dependence and Strategic Autonomy
The contemporary European security architecture is undergoing a significant systemic reordering since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For nearly three decades, the continent operated under the structural assumption of a cooperative, inclusive Euro-Atlantic security architecture, anchored by the principles of the 1990 Paris Charter and the collective hopes of a security community stretching from Vancouver to Vladivostok. This cooperative architecture has definitively dissolved with Russia’s systemic revisionism, commencing from the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and culminating in the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, shattering the normative frameworks of the post-Cold War era. Moscow’s aggression represents a comprehensive reset of the European security balance, seeking to re-establish exclusive spheres of influence and secure a direct, multipolar bargaining…
Review of “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”
Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political HistoryVali NasrNJ: Princeton University Press2025…
European Security Architecture after Ukraine: Between NATO Dependence and Strategic Autonomy
The contemporary European security architecture is undergoing a significant systemic…
The Colour was Red: A Whisper of Hope, Love and Shared Silence
Review of Mahbod Seraji’s Rooftops of Tehran It was the…
Iran After the War: Between National Cohesion and Political Reform
The second war against Iran imposed by the United States…
Beyond Regional War: Ukraine’s Conflict as Catalyst of Russia’s Global Repositioning
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February of 2022, it…
European Security Architecture after Ukraine: Between NATO Dependence and Strategic Autonomy
The contemporary European security architecture is undergoing a significant systemic reordering since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For nearly three decades, the […]
The Colour was Red: A Whisper of Hope, Love and Shared Silence
Review of Mahbod Seraji’s Rooftops of Tehran It was the long summer of restlessness, the youthness asking to colour the clapped mountains in red. Verses […]
Iran After the War: Between National Cohesion and Political Reform
The second war against Iran imposed by the United States and Israel in less than a year is a critical juncture in the Islamic Republic’s […]
Beyond Regional War: Ukraine’s Conflict as Catalyst of Russia’s Global Repositioning
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February of 2022, it was seen as one of the biggest geopolitical shocks to the existing international order in […]
Full Text of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran
The United States and Iran signed a 14-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding on June 17, 2026. The deal was first announced on June 15 by […]
Negotiating Multipolarity: India’s Position in BRICS Transformation
Fareed Zakaria, in his book, ‘The Post-American World’, argues that we are not entering an era of American decline, but rather one defined by the […]
“I Will One Day Live in Iran”: Exile and the Politics of Longing in Marjane Satrapi’s Work
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, filmmaker, and artist best known for Persepolis, has died at the age of 56. Her family told AFP that […]
Algeria and Palestine: How Settler Colonialism Re-engineers Space and Sovereignty
If settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, then its most vivid manifestations occur not on the battlefield but in land registers, zoning […]
Glimpses of Iranian Society through Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s Lens
From the McCarthyism era in the West to Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the East, films and filmmakers have been at the discretion of their governments. […]