“The world is on the verge of radical change. We see how the European Union is gradually collapsing, as is the US economy — it is all over for the new world order. So, it will never again be as it was before … in 10 years we will have a new world order in which the key will be …

The US National Intelligence Council recently released its quadrennial report titled “Global Trends: Paradox of Progress” wherein it predicted a nuclear war between India and Pakistan in 2028. The report pointed out that “India will be the world’s fastest growing economy during the next five years” and that “Pakistan will feel compelled to address India’s economic and conventional military capabilities …

Ending regulations on shale energy and coal, signalling the country’s intention to exit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and targeting cyber-attacks, these are the issues that top the list of Donald Trump’s plans for his first 100 days in the Oval Office. In a YouTube video, Mr Trump discussed how he intends to address trade, energy, regulation, national security, immigration …

The 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly recently kicked off in New York, USA.  At the UNGA session many global and regional issues will be discussed. However, it is also an undeniable reality that a host of such issues could have been solved had the United Nations, with all its organs, played its due role. Although it has …

The issue of good governance is being widely debated all over the world nowadays. All sociologists and political scientists have a consensus that good governance has major influence for human resource development in the society. They further believe that no nation can make the dream of development come true sans developing a culture of good governance. It is inevitable for …

“He has iron in his soul.” —Lee Kuan Yew (Former Prime Minister of Singapore on Chinese President Xi Jinping) President Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and with his sweeping actions and ambitious directives, he has fundamentally altered the process by which China’s domestic and foreign policy is formulated and implemented. Xi’s popular anti-corruption campaign …

 “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” —  Sir Winston Churchill On April 28, the lower chamber of the French Parliament passed a resolution that called on the government to cancel the sanctions against Russia …

A Zarb-e-Azb against foreign elements is Needed The Pakistan-India bilateral relationship is again in the headlines, but this time not for the right reasons. With the arrest of Kulbushan Yadav, a serving Indian Navy officer and RAW spy, the chronically topsy-turvy relationship has to face another bump in the road. Yadav, who was being directly handled by RAW’s chief, the …

The Indian Ocean is the world’s third largest body of water and has become a growing area of competition between China and India. The two regional powers’ moves to exert influence in the ocean include deep-water port development in littoral states and military patrols. Though the probability of military conflict between China and India remains low, escalated activities (such as …

On 24th November 2015, a Russian Su-24 plane came down near the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkey scrambled two F-16 fighter jets after a plane entered, as Turkey asserted, Turkish airspace, warning it to leave 10 times in five minutes before shooting it down. Russia disputed this assertion and said the jet never left Syrian airspace. The shooting down of the jet …