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. […]
NON-ALIGNMENT 2.0: A pretence or path for the global south?
For scholars, policymakers and strategic analysts navigating the fragmented architecture of contemporary international relations, the growing adoption of a non-aligned posture by many states is emerging as a consequential diplomatic phenomenon. With its roots in the Cold War era, when the international system was effectively divided between the United States and the Soviet Union, it lost its resonance after America assumed unquestioned dominance of the neoliberal order in the early 1990s. Now that the contemporary international system has gradually assumed a form of multipolarity with the US and China at the top, non-alignment appears to be making its way back into the discourse, including under names like ‘active alignment’ and ‘multialignment’, and reflected in how the middle powers are increasingly…
NON-ALIGNMENT 2.0: A pretence or path for the global south?
For scholars, policymakers and strategic analysts navigating the fragmented architecture…
From Hands-off to Engagement: India’s Diplomacy Amidst a Changing Nepal
Nepal has moved towards political stability over the past few…
Spies for Hire: How Tehran, Moscow, and Islamabad Turned Espionage Tactics
In early April 2026, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet…
Engineering Fear: The New Middle East Truce
In a regional moment defined by calculated ambiguity and measured…
Is Joe Kent’s Resignation a Bad News for United States–Israel Relations?
On March 17, US National Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent resigned,…
Peace in the Shadows: Women’s Unseen Struggle in Yemen’s War
Once rich in culture and history, Yemen has been devastated…
India’s Outreach to GCC: Deepening Ties for the Multi-aligned World Order
Diplomacy is often perceived as restrictive to the pursuit of…
Crisis in Iran: Old Revolution, New Revolutionaries
Iran has endured unprecedented crises in recent years, such as…
Tryst with a knife: Hassan Blasim and The Corpse Exhibition
Thomas De Quincey, the inaugurator of addiction literature in the…
Trump’s Madness and the Uncertain Global Order
Antonio Gramsci’s reflection, “The old world is dying, and the…
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 […]
If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu: Canadian PM Mark Carney.
Calls on Middle Powers to adopt “Principled and Pragmatic Path” in International Affairs in his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos Below is […]
Trump’s Madness and the Uncertain Global Order
Antonio Gramsci’s reflection, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters,” is often invoked […]
Settler Colonialism as Structure: From French Algeria to Zionist Palestine
In moments of extreme violence when cities are flattened, populations displaced, and humanitarian language collapses under the weight of mass death, the temptation may be […]
Can Free Trade Deliver Peace? India’s FTAs in a Mercantilist World
The current instability brought on by the explosion of bilateralism in international trade ties has touched every country in the world. Neo-mercantilist trading practices are […]
Crisis in Iran: Old Revolution, New Revolutionaries
Iran has endured unprecedented crises in recent years, such as the 12-day war with Israel (and the United States), economic deterioration under continued international economic […]
Survival Beyond Death: Gendered Violence, Memory, and Identity After the Armenian Genocide
The widespread “atrocities committed against the Armenian people” during the First World War in the Ottoman territories is regarded as the first genocide of the […]
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 […]
Why Terrorism Thrives in a World That Claims to Be Civilised
Over the last century, waves of terrorism have consistently found new sets of principles, logic, and persuasiveness. The advent of modern barbarism, despite its roots […]