Beyond Ceasefires: Gaza Board of Peace and the Limits of Technocratic Peace
U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” has been sold as the exit ramp from Israeli-unleashed ruins of Gaza following the 7 October 2023 attacks by the Palestinian Hamas. It is an externally supervised peace plan pairing ceasefire monitoring with demilitarisation, interim administration, and a reconstruction drive managed through an international…
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. The air strikes were a first in decades involving the US and Iran directly. The war of words followed and so did propaganda machines. The war between regional military powers…
How US trade diplomacy reflects the Beijing Consensus on WTO reform
In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the “End of History,” arguing that Western liberal democracy had emerged as the final and victorious model of political organisation. State socialism and authoritarianism, it was believed, had been decisively defeated by free-market capitalism and liberal democratic governance. In parallel,…
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