Two Cases, Minor and Major
News stories have Donald Trump being
mocked by France's Macron at a Buckingham Palace reception for the NATO leaders
meeting. A nearby open mic caught the...
Pakistan and the Game of Throne
General elections of 2018 were one of the
historical elections Pakistan had ever witnessed mainly because for the first
time ever a third political party ousted...
A visible shift in US policy in South Asia
It seems a shift in the US policy in South
Asia, especially toward Pakistan. The US was among the first few countries to
recognize Pakistan in...
Why finance is at the heart of Chile’s crisis
The outsized role of unfettered finance in
Chile has only worsened inequality that led to recent uprisings
In September this year, less than a month before...
U.S. Foreign Policy Threats to Israel’s National Security: Strategic Imperatives for Jerusalem
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
Though U.S. President Donald Trump describes himself as pro-Israel, any seriously analytic assessment of...
Arab Spring and Third Wave of Democratisation: The case of Egypt
Professor Huntington introduced the
concept of the third wave of democratization in five phases. They are the emergence
of reformers, acquiring powers, failure of liberalization, backward...
A microcosm of Iran’s domestic problems, port city bears brunt of crackdown
The Iranian port city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr has emerged as the scene of some of the
worst violence in Iran’s brutal crackdown on recent anti-government protests.
Located...
Foreign policy background of the Iranian crisis
Despite all the complexity and ambiguity of the situation now exiting in
the world, the summer and fall of 2019 saw a certain degree of...
The Prisoner of Geography: Orbán’s perception of geographical pragmatism
Between the
beginning of September and the end of November 2019, the Hungarian government
has received an exceptionally high number of foreign officials. Among others,
Viktor Orbán’s...
India’s Harebrained Nuclear Behaviour
Politics with an opportune, proportionate, precise and unequivocal
resolve represents the continuous face of nuclear signaling within the Indo-Pak
rivalry. As has been evident, strategic restraint...