More: Geopolitics
The US Pivot Asia-Pacific Strategy requires India and Australia
The post Cold War realignment of international relations on Asia completely changes the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. The more the West...
Natural Gas and the ‘Lesser’ Caspians: How New Players Might be Good for Everyone
Energy: what was once a largely single-resource/two-state controlled industry has given way to other resources of significance. In turn, this has also given rise...
Great Gains or Great Game?: Global Engagement across Central Asia
Alexander Cooley in his book, Great Games Local Rules, describes a new great game where the post-soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and...
Astana 2017: contents and projects of the next International Exhibition
On 24 and 25 February Astana hosted the second Meeting of International Participants of “Future Energy” EXPO which will take place in the capital...
The TAPI Pipeline: The Politics of Energy Balancing
There is a new energy rush among many Greater Caspian states, one that continues to focus on breaking free of the heavy Russian influence...
The US strategic bet on India for a pivot Asia-Pacific Strategy
The geopolitical, geostrategic and the economic, significance of the Asia-Pacific region makes it an apple of everybody’s eye involving many powers struggling for the...
Caspian Roadmap: Back or wreck to the future?
Recently, I came across an interesting outlined roadmap for Caspian countries, written in 2010 with predictions for 2025. 5 years down and 10 years...
A Glimpse into the Cold War Alliances with Reference to Pakistan’s Case for Kashmir
The post-World War II scenario observed many rapid identical changes which included end of wartime bonhomie developed between the United States and the Soviet...
Azeri Janus: Baku Balancing both East and West
Since its transition to independence, Azerbaijan has looked both east and west for its place on the world stage. Predominantly Muslim, Azerbaijan has no...
“Pyrrhic Sovereignty” – The Treasure of the Tengiz
History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes - or so goes the adage. This is at play in the Caspian today as...