The Imran Debacle and Challenges for Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan becomes yet another Prime Minister in the South Asian nation's history who failed to complete a full five year...
Turkey Re-evaluates Its Position in the Wider Black Sea Region
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ankara’s foreign policy is set to undergo major changes. Being the most valuable ally the West has in...
US role in Pakistan’s fluid politics
Pakistan’s prime minister Iran Khan was ousted through a vote of no confidence. Since his removal, he has been crying hoarse that his unceremonious...
Public safety or national security?
On December 21st of 2017, the former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto created a new law known as Ley de Seguridad Interior (Law of...
Chinese Attitudes to the Russo-Ukrainian War
There is no denying that the global power structure has shifted. Those who assume that the United States, Europe, Russia, or China are the...
Pakistan: The Maturing of a Banana Democracy
The shameful and unprecedented political drama that has been witnessed in Pakistan in the last few days, do probably have no annals in the...
South Korean perceptions of misinformation
How does the South Korean public view misinformation and efforts to combat its spread? My survey work shows that, unlike in the United States...
The importance of Xinjiang and Myanmar’s Arakan for the Chinese Silk Road
The Chinese Silk Road and its main strategic traffic and influence areas in the Chinese regions of Xinjiang and Arakan in Myanmar, which have...
The end of Germany’s self-confined foreign policy (?)
When Germany’s new foreign minister Annalena Baerbock took office in December 2021, there was careful optimism in Berlin that she would embody a more...
Decontextualization and Ukraine, War and Peace: Return of the Wir wussten nicht
“He who does not wish to speak of capitalism should remain forever silent about Nazism” – I quoted West Germany’s Max Horkheimer some two...