Int’l Affairs

In the days since President Trump came down hard on Pakistan in his speech outlining America’s new Afghanistan strategy, the reaction in Islamabad — and elsewhere across the country — has been predictably angry and defiant. Pakistan’s National Security Committee, a group of top government and military officials, rejected Trump’s allegations that Pakistan provides sanctuaries to terrorists that destabilize Afghanistan …

While a dwindling band of refuseniks still insist that is doesn’t exist, climate change is already here, and it’s only going to get worse, with some of the severe effects having already started to take hold. The Paris Agreement was implemented as a collaborative global response to climate change, with a goal of reducing emissions. It aims to keep the …

In recent years, there has been much talk about the crisis of liberalism. The liberal world order that has held sway over international affairs for the past seven decades has been fragmenting under the pressure of systemic economic stresses, growing tribalism and nationalism, and a general loss of confidence in established international and national institutions. The election of Donald Trump …

The Indo-Japanese relationship is rapidly gathering impetus; taking shape faster than any of New Delhi’s current strategic partnerships in Asia. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who shortly after his India visit announced snap elections in Japan, was in India to attend the 12th India-Japan Annual Summit. Both countries have agreed to establish the India-Japan Act East Forum with the intention …

By: Dr Sattar Qayyum Since the outbreak of the euro crisis in 2009-10, Europe has been witnessing contradictory trends and developments ranging from efforts to contain the spread of systemic risk in the financial sector to calls for the creation of a European pillar of social rights, and neoliberalism still reigns supreme in EU’s economic policy agenda. In the meantime, …

It’s beyond debate that the shootings outside the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas will go into the history books as the largest mass shooting in modern US history, with at least 59 dead and more than 500 wounded. What’s also indisputable is that this shooting – like the Pulse nightclub shooting before it and Newtown before that and Columbine …