Security & Conflict
The Encroaching Impact of Arms Trade on South Asia’s Geopolitics
In his
famous farewell address to the American Public in 1961, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower had both defined and warned against the encroaching influence of
what was...
Terrorism and Mass Media: A Reflection from the Sri Lanka Terror Attack
The world
shivers at the mention of terrorism. The international news storylines mostly
present two hegemonic undertakings: the economic and power game ruling blocks
comprising US, Russia,...
Turkey is the Guarantor of Peace in the Black Sea region
The wider
Black Sea region—which brings together the littoral states plus neighbouring
countries—is experiencing a rapidly shifting security environment that combines
large-scale conventional military threats, internationalized civil...
Kashmir: EAMs at the LOC
First, it was Zahedan where an IRGC
convoy; returning home from their tour of duty, along the borders of
Sistan-Baluch, are suddenly ambushed and nearly annihilated....
Central Asian Jihadi Groups Joined Taliban’s “Al-Fath Jihadi Operations”
Al
Qaeda-backed jihadist groups Katibat Imam al Bukhari (KIB), the Islamic Jihad
Union (IJU) and the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), consisting mainly of Uzbeks
from the Fergana...
Insecurity of India’s Nuclear Weapons
After 1945, it came into the knowledge that nuclear weapons are
the most destructive, lethal and powerful weapon on the planet earth, which can
wipe out...
Libya Crisis: Role of Regional Players
Libya remains in a chaotic state after the
fall of Muammar Gadhafi. The United Nations-backed government struggles to
exercise control over territory held by rival factions,...
The Russian Mafia
Since 1992, the Russian word Mafyia has
been officially used in the Russian Federation’s documents to refer above all
to organized crime, structured through stable groups...
Houston, We Have a Problem: A Space Force Must First be a Cyber Force
The proposal to create a U.S. Space Force has been a matter of
debate since President Donald Trump first announced the idea in October of
2018....
AI, Foreign Policy, and National Governance Impact: Focus on China
How China’s AI technology exports may lead
to the emergence of new power structures outside the control of existing
governance and accountability frameworks and impact the...