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China’s future political and economic moves
On May 22, 2020 China will organize its largest institutional political assembly, the National People's Congress. Institutionally, it should have been held on March...
The 3 big shifts of Post COVID-19 world
Thomas Friedman in a conversation, Off the Cuff with Shekhar Gupta talked about three pandemics of the world that he had lived with---9/11, 2008...
Chechnya: The ethno political flashpoint plaguing a former Super power
Authors: Subhranil Ghosh & Sayantan Bandyopadhyay*
Chechnya is a minuscule North Caucasian landmass of around 17000 square kilometres which comprises a small fraction of Russia’s...
Trump, European Security And Turkey: Book Review
An expert looks at the interconnected foreign policies of the United States, Europe, and Turkey in 2019.
With opinion pieces published in the New York...
When India Tested a Nuclear Device on Its Citizens
On May 18, 1974, India claimed that it has successfully tested a nuclear device, codenamed “Smiling Buddha” and became the sixth nation to have...
Egypt needs to better leverage its foreign policy
Despite being a developing nation incapable of providing adequate job opportunities for its youth, Egypt possesses tremendous soft power that, if well utilized, could...
Reconciling Public Safety and National Security Via A Renewed Focus on Biosecurity
As the broad ranging consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic wreak havoc across the global political economy, there have also simultaneously come up several issues...
Can Turkey Create a Shield Around Its Illegal Activities?
The new Turkish law (No. 7242) allows Turkish government authorities, including intelligence and law enforcement agencies, to take convicts and detainees out of prison...
Strategic Quarantines of Super Powers: War from Home
There is a cliché that road to power is full of causalities and hypocrisies. Super powers never failed to surprise the world with new...
Liberal Hegemony versus Buzkashi
The history of Afghanistan, to quote historian Tamim Ansary, is the history of often interruption. Whenever this ‘land-in-between’ country attempted to set on a...