Middle East

  • India’s Strategic Tightrope: Lessons from Iran War and Trump’s Challenge

    New Delhi convened a strategic dialogue with Washington on 5-6 August, foregrounding themes of security, stability, economic cooperation, and most critically, the vulnerabilities of global supply chains. Parallel Track II diplomacy has drawn strategists into deliberations on the trajectory of bilateral ties. Yet, the India-US relationship has deteriorated alarmingly in recent years. Once celebrated under…

  • The Limits of Comparison: Hamas-Hezbollah and the Politics of Disarmament

    The near-simultaneous US-led campaigns to disarm Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have fostered a prevailing analytical assumption: that Hamas is either currently following or is expected to follow Hezbollah’s trajectory of maintaining an armed wing within a negotiated political framework. Resolution 2803 (November 2025) authorised an international force to oversee Gaza’s demilitarisation, Trump’s…

  • The New Grammar of Repression: Reading Contemporary Authoritarianism through Baloch Movement in Pakistan

    When a state confronts political dissent, the response often reveals more about its character than its constitutional promises. Pakistan’s treatment of the Baloch movement offers a particularly revealing example of how contemporary states manage political opposition. Should one judge a state by the democratic values it proclaims, or by the practices through which it governs?…

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