India: USA’s South Asian bulwark against rising China
India is
emerging as US proxy against rising China determined to surpass USA in Gross
Domestic Product by year 2027. India is opposed to China’s Belt...
Thwarting Iranian Influence is Key to Iraq’s Security
The
mass uprisings in Iraq over the past several months have many factors in
common, the most salient of which include ordinary citizens
decrying economic hardship and...
The Suicide of Critical Thinking
“It is better to debate a question without
settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”~ Joseph Joubert,
French moralist and essayist, 1896
The idea...
Sixty Years and Still Growing Stronger As UN University
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, one of Russia's
largest internationally oriented, educational and research
institutions, has marked 60th year of its establishment with series
of activities including an evening...
Mapping the Negative Indian Nuclear Security
Nuclear security has been a key issue for South Asia for several decades
since India conducted its nuclear tests in 1974. Indian struggle to attain...
The Wider Geopolitical Repercussions of Enforcing a One-Sided Peace onto the Middle East
Of all the varying reactions from the rest
of the world following the White House’s latest
Mid-East Peace Plan, none as such have come as a...
Erdogan battles on multiple fronts in risky regional power bid
The optics seem evident: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at
odds with just about everybody.
Mr. Erdogan is on opposite sides of Russia in Syria,...
Battle of Yokes: Indo-US vs. Sino-Pak Nexus
Rearrangements of new realities after the
withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan in 1979, and the readjustment of
post WWII International Order into a multi-polar...
All Those Croatian Presidents
Since those days when it emerged from the
ruins of the Yugoslav federation as an independent state, Republic of Croatia
had 4 Presidents – 4 men...
Sri Lanka: A Key Piece in the Great Game of the Indian Ocean
“Whoever
controls the Indian Ocean will dominate Asia… the destiny of the world will be
decided on its waters” - Alfred Thayer
Mahan
Island republics can advantageously secure
global...