2015

How climate change is transforming the ground rules of power politics Just over a century ago, a British geographer Halford Mackinder laid out the fundamental tenets of a new discipline that came to be known as “geopolitics.” Simply put, he said, international relations boiled down to the intersection of unchanging physical geography with the vagaries of human politics. Only one …

Territorial disputes have plagued the South China Sea for the past sixty years, inciting episodes of heated conflict followed by periods of relative inaction. Various states in the region, including Brunei, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam have claimed various territories or islands within the Sea as their own, based on a wide variety of justifications. But an upsurge …

The last decade has clearly demonstrated that the nature of threats to international security has changed significantly. Structural challenges, such as terrorism, cyber-attacks and nuclear proliferation, have created an entirely new security environment. National states’ monopoly on using force is eroding, state boundaries have lost much of their relevance and private actors have increasingly become powerful in international security. The …

Ongoing conflict in the Middle East and mass killings in the United States have made the world an increasingly violent place. That’s not necessarily true: Harvard’s Steven Pinker has shown that the arc of human progress has bent — in fits and starts — toward non-violence over time. But what of violence — and peace — over the past few …

“If we educate a boy, we educate one person. If we educate a girl, we educate a family – and a whole nation.”  (An African proverb) The above-quoted saying, in fact, exhibits the realization that the African societies do have, but we are oblivious to which even today. Perhaps, a lack of this recognition is impeding our girls’ way to …

While Pakistanis are enjoying the 4G internet in their country, the conversation in some parts of the world has moved up a notch to 5G. This was clear at the Intel Developer Forum that was held in August in San Francisco, where the chipmaker tried to paint a picture of what the 5G world might look like. As it turned …

This year the nation observed the Defence & Martyrs Day all over the country with unprecedented zeal and solemnity. It was indeed an occasion for acknowledging the supreme sacrifices given by our martyrs and sharing with their families their sense of pride and fortitude. But this was also an occasion to look back and do some real soul-searching to determine …

The Dragon’s Trim Sep 03: At a spectacular WWII anniversary parade where China put its military might on display, the Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a reduction of 300,000 troops to China’s armed forces, part of a series of reforms to strengthen a military striving to assert the country’s increasingly global interests. Shattering the G-4 Hopes   Sep 03: The …

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An efficient and effective system of civil service is considered the backbone of a country’s governance structure and sans this the programmes and policies painstakingly formulated by the government cannot be successfully executed. Hence, there is always a need to meliorate and reform the civil service so that it serves as an active arm of the government rather than a …