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The Khashoggi crisis: Putting Humpty Dumpty back together
The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and potential Western sanctions against Saudi Arabia has sparked renewed debate about the value of the longstanding alliance...
Sri Lanka’s Politics: A Tussle between Democratic Defeat and Triumph
The answer to Sri Lanka’s current political crisis is complex. The split between United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and United National Party (UNP) turned...
A Tale of Two Countries
In a statement this week, Istanbul's chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, says Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate. If...
The China factor in South Asia
On October 25, 2018 Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena suspended Parliament (till November 16, 2018) and sacked his Prime Minsiter, Ranil Wickremesinghe, replacing him...
PM Imran Khan’s Visit to China at a crucial moment
Geopolitics is changing rapidly. Friends yesterday may not be friends today. Especially this part of the world is under immense focus and may play...
How Constantinople changed the Orthodox World
Soon it will be one month since the Ecumenical Patriarchate reinstated the primates of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC KP) and...
IRENEX to overcome U.S. petroleum sanctions?
Last Sunday on October 28, just few days before new U.S. sanctions on petroleum sector take effect (November 4, 2018), National Iranian Oil Company...
Modi’s Extremist India: Negation of Gandhi’s Policy of Tolerance
India, claiming to be largest democracy and a secular country has become a hell for religious minorities as well as lower caste Hindus since...
The Politics of Canons and Borders
The conflict surrounding the Orthodox church in Ukraine has moved irrevocably beyond the purely intra-ecclesiastical agenda. Experts, political scientists, and journalists have plunged headlong...
Reforming the Faith: Indonesia’s battle for the soul of Islam
Nahdlatul Ulama, with 94 million members the world’s largest Sunni Muslim movement, is bent on reforming Islam.
The powerful Indonesian conservative and nationalist group that...