More: Diplomacy
Emerging Implications of Raisi’s Victory in Iran
In Iran’s recently concluded presidential election, its clerical political system led by its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ensured the victory of a...
As ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’ Completes Fifty Years, ‘Diplomacy’ is Missing in the US-China Ties
Before the anti-China consensus became fashionable among the bipartisan US political elite during the Trump years, headwinds against Beijing were blowing in Washington by...
Biden Diplomacy: A Value-Based Alliance
Biden's diplomatic mantra of "America is back" is targeted at two key "anti-traditional" aspects of Trump's diplomacy. The first aims to reintroduce "values" into...
A Summit of Consequence? Great Power Diplomacy and Inadvertent Nuclear War
"In a surrealist year…. some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his...
China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: Major Change Drivers of its Policy
“Even though a thousand miles away, anyone who affronts China will pay.” This new tone of China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (WWD) unlike other diplomatic...
The elephant that didn’t become a lion
In 2014, Narendra Modi stormed the national and international stage like a rockstar. One of the first decisions of the nationalist BJP government was...
Biden-Putin Geneva Summit: Even A Little More Than Nothing Means A Lot
Was the, with little expectations, but a lot of combinations and nervousness, awaited summit of the Presidents of America and Russia, a failure? It was...
American diplomacy’s comeback and Bulgaria’s institutional trench war
Even though many mainstream media outlets have not noticed it, US diplomacy has staged a gran comeback in the Balkans. The Biden administration chose...
Looking back on India-China ties, one year past the Galwan incident
Two nuclear-armed neighbouring countries with a billion-plus people each, geographically positioned alongside a 3,488-km undemarcated border in the high Himalayas. This is the Line...
Failed Diplomacy: A hot tension between Spain and Morocco
An unexpected diplomatic wrong move on the part of the Spanish government through its interference in the Moroccan territorial sovereignty caused diplomatic tension, which...