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Nagorno – Karabakh Conflict Azerbaijan and Armenia reignited a decades-old ‘Frozen conflict’ Violence flared up in a long-running conflict on Europe’s eastern edge in late September as Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed over the embattled region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia said that on the morning of September 27, Azerbaijan launched air and artillery attacks on Nagorno-Karabakh, while Baku says it was conducting …

Prof.Graham Allison “While the US and China cannot escape the deeply-rooted structural realities, they could find a way to manage that rivalry without war.” Prof. Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, …

DEBT SERVICE SUSPENSION INITIATIE   Background On April 12, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan (PMIK), urged the world leaders, the UN Secretary-General, and heads of financial institutions across the globe to give debt relief to developing countries like Pakistan so that they could combat the deadly Covid-19 in a better way. Highlighting the need for such a relief, PMIK …

Living a life Worth Living Self-help books are always a matter of controversy in academic circles. There is a difference of opinion between realistic and optimistic schools of thought. Realists think that motivational content pumps you up for a moment; you start thinking about doing the wonders, then you sleep at night but when you wake up the next day, …

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Virtual Diplomacy The coronavirus pandemic has affected the world massively and its impact is already being felt at the local, regional and international levels in multifarious ways. International diplomacy is one area that is at the centre of the whole phenomenon, and we have seen this phenomenon at this year’s annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. Traditionally, the …

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BETTER WORLD The year 2020 marks a special anniversary for the United Nations: 75 years from the signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco. In 1945, soon after the end of the Second World War, nations worldwide decided to change the course of history and took the commitment to work together for peace. The United …

The Unholy Alliance  Like many other flabbergasting happenings in international arena such as US-Iran clashes after the killing of Qassem Soleimani, hyper politics between China and the United States over Covid-19, etc., the year 2020 brought a new twist in international relations. The event that has re-ordered the Middle East diplomacy is an astonishingly unholy US-brokered deal which was signed …