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The Wagner Group and the Evolving Global Threat of Private Military Companies
Amid the rise of great power competition, Russia and China, near peer competitors to the United States, have been working to advance their technology,...
Economics as a Weapon of War: Ukraine, China and Beyond
“Apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy and there will be no need for force. It is a terrible remedy. It does not cost...
Why Global Players Must be Concerned of New Version of Charm Offensive in Xi Jinping 3.0 Era?
Backdrop
When Joshua Kurlantzick coined the term ‘charm offensive’ for China in 2007, it simply referred to China’s use of soft power to improve its...
Russia-China-India bloc is forming in the East
A potentially consequential meeting in New Delhi went conspicuously unnoticed in much of the West. On the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai...
United States and the West are no longer ‘examples’ for UAE
It started with Saudi Arabia. President Biden was met with cool, if not cold, greetings during his visit to Riyadh last July. Then the...
Finland joining NATO: implications for Russia Ukraine war
In 2022, invasion of Ukraine turn over Europe's security backdrop and provoked Finland and its neighbor Sweden to drop years of neutrality.The move of...
Geopolitical Chessboard: De-Dollarization and the Battle for Currency Supremacy
In recent times, there has been a noteworthy transformation in the global financial landscape, where the United States' longstanding dominance in the international financial...
The 4th Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Neighboring Countries of Afghanistan
The 4th Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Neighboring Countries of Afghanistan was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 13 April 2023. China, Iran, Pakistan,...
A looming threat to Dollar’s hegemony but an edge to Global Capitalism?
The US dollar has been the dominant global reserve currency for decades and during this time, plenty of competitors have emerged and vanquished. Also,...
Negative Security Assurance in the context of Ukraine War
Negative security assurance is a concept in international security that refers to a commitment by a state or a group of states to refrain...