In 2011, President Barack Obama announced ‘Pivot to Asia,’ his new strategy for the Asia-Pacific region. It was also coined as ‘Act of Strategic Rebalancing’ which emphasizes that the US is going to stay in the Asia Pacific and it’s going to re-infuse new ideas into its security and economic presence in the region. The US appeared to contest the …

When Chinese President Xi Jinping came to Pakistan on an official visit in April 2015, he brought a $46 billion gift that could have significant benefits for Pakistan and a major impact on the whole region. And although there remain a number of unknowns on how this massive investment package will be implemented in the coming years, it is certain …

People, who believe that the European Union is a monolithic entity that conducts business that benefits individual European nations, have made a huge mistake. Today, the EU is a crumbling bureaucratic intergovernmental organization with several centres of power serving their own interests. All of these are seeking to convert the EU into a super state, controlling Western Eurasia, exploiting its …

“The sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” said Carl Schmitt, Nazi Germany’s chief jurist, in 1922, meaning that a nation’s leader can defy the law to serve the greater good. Though Schmitt’s unwavering support for Hitler damaged his reputation for decades, today his ideas have achieved unimagined influence. Indeed, Schmitt has influenced American politics directly through his intellectual …

South Asia is a region locked up in several conflicts and disputes that have resulted in wars between India and Pakistan; the two nuclear neighbours and archrivals. The region is the most volatile and unpredictable security complex. There are several states in it and all of them have different patterns of relations. India, being the most populated country and an …

Recently, the United States welcomed the first state visit of a new Chinese leader at a time when the presidential election campaign in the country has started, and the US-China relationship is at an important inflection point. Nearly four decades after the normalization of relations between the two superpowers, new realities in China, the United States and the international community …

“We’re not going to make Syria a proxy war between the United States and Russia,” US President Barack Obama told journalists, as Russian jets continued their air strikes over the war-torn country. But that statement can be interpreted only in one of two ways: Either that the United States doesn’t care about Syria, and is prepared to abandon it to …

For the past six years, President Barack Obama has dominated the annual opening of the UN General Assembly, his words and initiatives driving the agenda and media coverage. This year, it was Russian President Vladimir Putin, making his first UN appearance in a decade, who stole the diplomatic show. While speaking at the 70th UN General Assembly session, Vladimir Putin …

They’re not people: nobody would tolerate hearing about the drowning of human beings over and over again. At best, they are bleak but intangible statistics, the object of a bit of tutting before mundane everyday life takes over. For others, they are an unwanted and uninvited swarm that Fortress Europe must keep out: full of undeserving would-be leeches, who have …

  How China’s Currency Policies Will Change the World The recent fluctuations in China’s currency typify the best and worst of a globalized world, where developments in one place can instantly change the political and financial calculations of governments in others. For most of human history, the communities, cultures and economies of the world existed independently of one another, separated …