June 2016

International criminal law is an ever-evolving subject and it is fair to say that the international criminal tribunals are imperfect. Any student of international law will be able to pick faults with the application of law in the international and ad hoc tribunals from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Same is the case with the International …

In recent months, there have been much discussions on the agenda of the communal fascists on events like the twisted nationalism, increasing fabricated cases, human rights violations using draconian laws, developments in Chennai against Dalits, beef debate, attacks on writers, moral policing, attacks on human rights activists, Rohit Vemula’s suicide and the subsequent Dalit students movement in Hyderbad University, government’s …

Afghanistan has been suffering from the horrors of wars and instability for decades now. These have made the people undergo great misery; therefore, most of the people are now fed up of the circumstances and they keep on longing for peace. The common people in Afghanistan require nothing more than peace today as the situation is once again turning instable …

In recent months, the South China Sea has become a hot issue as certain regional countries, presumably under outside instigation, tried to create a stir in hopes of capitalizing on it. In other words, the source of the trouble is efforts to create disputes in the hope of profiting from it while regional stability requires efforts to find common ground …

International relations have entered a very difficult period, and Russia once again finds itself at the crossroads of key trends that determine the vector of future global development. Many different opinions have been expressed in this connection including the fear that the Russians have a distorted view of the international situation and Russia’s international standing. This, in fact, echoes the …

The recent rally in oil prices from $26 in January to $47 in April has stirred hopes and shed some pressure from the confused, busy market players who are insinuating that oil has, finally, ‘bottomed out’. But, things are smooth neither at the surface nor at the bottom. The rig count, demand and supply disruptions; all are creating a perplexing …

The month of May this year marked the 100th anniversary of what the world knows with the name of Sykes-Picot Agreement. This Agreement, a secret deal between France and Great Britain divided up the heart of the Middle East and created the states like Iraq and Syria as well as many other fragile nations of the modern Middle East. This …

Terrorism is, undoubtedly, the gravest threat to world peace at present and many countries are putting in herculean efforts to root out this cancer from within their territorial boundaries. In order to help the world community in these efforts, Pakistan drew up a pragmatic operational strategy and launched operations thereupon. These operations resulted not only in nabbing of numerous hardcore …

The relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom has been tumultuous and ambivalent since the very creation of the bloc. Great Britain had joined the European Economic Community in 1973. The country has maintained a considerable distance from EU by opting out of some its key policies. Not adopting EU’s common currency i.e. Euro, and distancing itself from …

In the 1980s, once driving on a busy New York street, I was struck by a popular bumper sticker that read: “One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.” On surface, this thought looked childish, if not frivolous, but if taken literally, that bumper sticker did speak the ultimate truth. Indeed, it only takes one, just one nuclear weapon, to …