Security & Conflict
Aggressive China: India’s Options
India and China had established diplomatic relations 70 years ago. 2020 saw the firing of shots for the first time in over 40 years....
A Counter-Terrorism Agenda and stronger Europol to boost the EU’s resilience
Today, the Commission is presenting a new Counter-Terrorism Agenda for the EU to step up the fight against terrorism and violent extremism and boost...
Strategic Inferences from Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict 2020, post Ceasefire
Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire deal to end the war for control of Nagorno-Karabakh enclave last month,after a series of Azerbaijani victories in...
Diplomatic Show at NATO Meeting
On December 2, during a videoconference of NATO foreign ministers the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu exchanged...
Foreign fighters a ‘serious crisis’ in Libya
The 20,000 foreign fighters now in Libya represent “a serious crisis” and “a shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty”, UN Acting Special Representative Stephanie Williams...
Iran-Israel: Can the low-intensity conflict turn into open war?
On Friday, November 27, on the motorway from the town of Absard to Tehran, the armoured car carrying the Head of Iran's nuclear programme,...
The Need to Reorient New Delhi in the Indo-Pacific
Beijing’s overt expansionism in South Asia and the South China Sea (SCS) continues to threaten India’s maritime security. The rise of China as an...
National Security of PakistanPost 9/11: A Critical Review
Pakistan’s troublesome decades preceding the millennium mark all boiled down to significant events of the morning of September 11, 2001, coupled with its prevailing...
On the Universality of the “Logic of Strategy” and Beyond
Just like several other scholars, military strategist Edward Luttwak argues that “the universal logic of strategy applies in perfect equality to every culture in...
Biden, Modi and the Malabar Exercise 2020
So lastly, the reluctant President Donald Trump, keeping the value of the verdict, allows the GSA to begin the transition under the Presidential Transition...