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The Road to Peace in Afghanistan Goes Through Kashmir Pakistan has repeatedly told the world that peace in the region depends upon peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. At a time when international efforts to bring peace to the war-ravaged Afghanistan are in full swing, it has come as a whiff of fresh air that Pakistan and India …

The Middle East and Great Power Politics The Turkish role After Turkey’s failure to join the European Union despite several attempts, Turkey adopted a strategic depth doctrine, by exploiting its geopolitical position in the centre of the three continents to achieve its political, economic and military interests through dispute settlements and by building positive relations with all nations, from Asia …

How to Revive Multilateralism in a Multipolar World Multilateralism is not a magic wand. However, it can mitigate the power differences that exist between states by binding them by common rules. That is why Europe and the vast majority of states worldwide endorse it. Now, multilateral rules do not fall from the sky. They reflect a state of play and …

GREAT POWER Confrontation Russia and China vs. the United States There has been plenty of buzz in the foreign policy world about the possibility of a new Cold War between the US and China. If anything, that 20th century term fails to encapsulate the breadth of the contested issues and the fact that unlike the Soviet Union, the rising Asian …

Dual Circulation China’s New Development Paradigm The annual gathering of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) took place in March, at the usual time this year. Premier Li Keqiang’s speech and government documents presented at the meet showed confidence on the country’s past achievements. China’s management of the pandemic and its standing as the only major economy to achieve positive GDP …

Beyond  the Covid-19 Pandemic Global Peace and Imperatives of Our Future Understanding Tragic Tensions of Politics and Scientific Cure Many political leaders in the Western democratic culture failed to understand the wide range of social, economic, medical and political prejudices, legal injustices and vices of racial discrimination which compounded and highlighted the public portrait of racial injustices and degradation of …

American Jobs Plan Joe Biden’s Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and  Reshape the US Economy On 31st March, US president, Joe Biden, unveiled his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan that is centred on fixing roads and bridges, expanding broadband internet access and boosting funding for research and development, plus higher corporate taxes to pay for the package. “It’s not a plan that …

The Red Planet Missions to Mars Perseverance is one of three separate missions that arrived at Mars in February this year. On February 9, the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to send a probe around Mars to study its atmosphere. The next day, China’s Tianwen-1 mission completed its first successful journey to another planet in our solar …

The Istanbul Canal President Erdogan’s ‘Crazy Project’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is well known for his penchant for gigantic construction projects in Istanbul. Be it a new airport, Turkey’s largest mosque or a tunnel that goes under the Bosporus — he has built it all within a short time. But these objects of prestige are nothing compared to his …

Major Chokepoints of the World 1. Strait of Gibraltar This strait between the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean has the United Kingdom’s tiny Gibraltar Colony as well as Spain on the north and Morocco and a small Spanish colony on the south. US warplanes were forced to fly over the strait (as protected by the 1982 conferences) when attacking Libya …