The rise of China was the biggest rupture in the new world order. The Americans’ strategy needed an overhaul, and the world was slowly embracing […]
Author: Ayaan Ali
Ayaan Ali is a postgraduate student at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is also an Editorial Intern at Middle East Outlook.
Why does the Military Dominate Pakistan?
On September 17, 2025, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SDMA) in Riyadh, formalising decades of military cooperation into a binding […]
Survival or Hegemony? Why Iran Can’t Kill its Nuclear Ambition
In the summer of 2025, at the behest of Israel, the US launched massive air strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites- Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. […]
When War Becomes Profitable: Rethinking Clausewitz in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
The 18th-century Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously said that“war is a continuation of politics by other means”. But he would […]
From Mao to Xi: China’s Great Reorientation and Its Quest for Gobal Power Status
“There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes, he will shake the world.” This quote, often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, has been […]