The Anatomy of Saudi-Pakistan Defense Agreement: The Timing, the Message and the Noise
In an argument on what collective security really means, the influential realist thinker Hans Morgenthau remarked, it means “One for all and all for one”. This opens a Pandora’s box; the limitation and the nature of such agreements when it comes to operationalization? The recent Saudi-Pak comprehensive defense agreement has two significant points: (a) Any aggression…
The Qatar Strike and the Illusions of Gulf Security
It is often said that the only predictability about the Middle East’s geopolitics is its unpredictability, and yet what has remained remarkably consistent is the structural myopia of its regional security frameworks, particularly the one followed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members. Israel’s targeted strikes on Hamas leadership in Doha on September 9 have…
Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims: A Decade of Stateless Suffering and International Indifference
It has been over eight years since the skies over Rakhine state in Myanmar were lit with the smouldering fires of Rohingya Muslim villages, as the military razed hundreds of settlements, sexually assaulted women, and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homeland, dangerously crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh in dinghies. All this happened…
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