Mar 2022

HIJAB What does the Indian law say about it? Historically, it began in France in 1989 – usually referred to as l’affaire du voile (the veil affair) – when three female students were told by the principal of their high school in Creil, a suburb of Paris, that they could …

5 ALARMS FOR 2022 Important Excerpts from UN Secretary-General’s Speech Laying out his priorities for 2022, Secretary-General António Guterres, identified his priorities for 2022 in an address to the 193-member General Assembly as he began a second five-year term at the helm of the world body. In a wide-ranging speech, …

CONFLICTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Globalization and the new wars Market liberalization, new communication technologies and the rapid movement of capital have made it easier for non-state actors to obtain power and profits when there is a decline in the state authority. With the Arab Spring, many authoritarian Arab states …

CHINA–RUSSIA NO-LIMITS ALLIANCE Shaping a polycentric world order Shaping a polycentric world order On February 04, amid the spectacle of the start of the Winter Olympics, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered solidarity to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in Beijing amid high tensions of the latter with …