Migration and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Migration has been a feature of Arab history long before the emergence of passports, borders and international airports. Before modern states took shape, people crossed deserts and seas in search of trade, knowledge, opportunity and faith. Traders carried spices and silk, along with languages, customs and ideas. Scholars moved between cities, exchanging knowledge that would…
The Baloch Tragedy: Rebellion, Insurgency and the Question of Survival
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by land area, has been the site of one of South Asia’s longest-running armed conflicts. Stretching along the Arabian Sea coast and bordering both Iran and Afghanistan, the province sits at the intersection of immense strategic value and chronic underdevelopment- a contradiction at the heart of the massive Baloch insurgency. Home…
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…
