The second shock of British Parliament to May
For the second time in recent weeks, the Parliament of the United Kingdom opposed British Prime Minister Teresa May’s proposed Brexit. The legislators of...
The Relevance of US -Sri Lanka Relations: Turning Over a New Leaf in Diplomacy
Authors: Srimal Fernando and Yashodha Rathnayake*
Seventy-one years after independence, Sri Lanka  is   eventually  on a new  path in forging  stronger  diplomatic bonds with the...
Ayatollah Khomeini: Strategist, practitioner and mastermind of the Islamic revolution in Iran
The year 2019 marks 40 years to the Islamic Republic of Iran. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic revolution won in Iran. The last...
Talks on Kashmir, a nuclear tinderbox
Talks on Kashmir are stalled. Instead of discussing the Kashmir dispute. India has threatened to carry out surgical strikes at about 25 targets deep...
US Exit From Afghanistan Isn’t That Simple
Received with a mixed response, the long and greatly overdue decision of complete departure of US forces from Syria and Afghanistan has excavated some...
Russia Shows Interest in Sierra Leone’s Economy
Sierra Leone, after the civil war, has been looking for foreign investors to assist overcome the challenges by leveraging on resources to resuscitate the...
Support for US Iran policy out of left field: China dramatically reduces trade with Tehran
China has dramatically reduced its trade with Iran in line with US sanctions, raising questions whether Iran will remain committed to an international agreement...
Transformation of Uzbekistan: How smooth transition in elite class is reshaping the country
Within the nations of the former USSR, serious transformations are accompanied by distress – active power struggles, revolutions, and outbreaks of separatism. However, today,...
Geopolitics of Europe and the Iron Law of Evolutionary Biology
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU: The WTO...
History’s faux pas and Kashmir
One of the greatest blunders of history is the Kashmir issue perpetrated by the British Empire and its price is being paid by its...