What UK defense minister was doing in Odessa, or a taste for farce
History repeats itself. This popular maxim also rings very true today. Many episodes of the Crimean War are still fresh on the memory of...
Managing minefields: Saudi/UAE aid puts Pakistan-Iran relations on the spot
Pakistan is traversing minefields as it concludes agreements on investment, balance of payments support and delayed payment oil deliveries with Saudi Arabia and the...
Compromise and Democracy, Trump’s Border Wall and Why Immigrants
Compromise is the essence of democracy for a good reason. it is the glue holding it together. It is how a country can unite...
2018: A good year for China-India relations
Authors: Arun Upadhyaya and Carter Chapwanya*
The year 2018 ended on a high note for China’s peripheral diplomacy as Sino-India relations are in good shape...
The current situation in Syria
Syria is the great rotating platform of the Middle East. Paraphrasing the statement by Mackinder, the well-known British geopolitician of the early twentieth century,...
The black nightmare of the Green Continent
The deployment of about 147,000 police officers on Paris and other cities' streets in the early days of the New Year, and the increased...
Turkic Chinese soup: A barometer of anti-Chinese sentiment
A heavy soup made of pulled noodles, meat, and vegetables symbolizes Central Asia’s close cultural and/or ethnic ties with China’s repressed Turkic and Hui...
Russia’s Response Falls Behind Africa’s Expectations
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Russia, Major General (rtd) Nicholas Mike Sango, was one of the African envoys to attend a recent meeting with Russian legislators...
Who is the new member of the US National Security Council?
Richard Goldberg, a Grand Old Party foreign policy expert, is joining the White House's National Security Council as its new Director for Countering Iranian...
21st Century Great Power Scramble Rush to Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR),dubbed as the 21stcentury’s “pecuniary cauldron” has emerged to be the modern competitive zone for existing and emerging powers of...