Political transitions in Afghanistan have been fraught with tensions and contestations. While one may think that the transfer of leadership in 2014 from Hamid Karzai to Ashraf Ghani was peaceful, the changes and implications which it brough...
The recent Chinese aggressive behaviour and multi-fronted confrontations, from imposition of draconian laws in Hong Kong, to menacingly targeting Taiwan, suppressing of ASEAN-member states in the South China Sea (SCS) region, trade war with...
Amid the escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific region stemming from China’s display of military muscle and expansionist design, the spectre of a new cold war with the US and China as the two major combatants is drifting the world to a maj...
With the coming to power of Xi Jinping in 2013, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has adopted a pugnacious foreign policy from direct intervention in Hong Kong to militarising the South China Sea, trade war with the US and border dispute...
The United Nations Organisation, the world’s largest multi-sectoral multilateral inter-governmental institution is under increasing threat of becoming irrelevant in the emerging world order. The leaders of the powerful countries that consti...
In 2019, ASEAN leaders acknowledged the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical imagination, but have reinforced their commitment to the ASEAN-centered regional architecture. The ASEAN stance was manifested through a document ‘ASEAN Outlook on the I...
Throughout the last decade since Maldives became a multi-party democracy, several changes occurred in the country for greater political integration. During the early years the new constitution gave more powers to the judiciary and legislatu...
In recent years, a new wave of flare up in Sino-Japanese geostrategic competition in the Pacific has galvanised the region by adding traditional and new players into the equation. The once neglected region in the post-Cold War world order, ...
On February 29, 2020 at Doha, US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar signed the so called “peace deal”, thus moving closer in the direction of ending longest war in the American history. On ...
Energy self-sufficiency has gained renewed importance among small island states such as Sri Lanka and the Maldives in the past few decades. Sri Lanka is the fourth largest electricity-producing nation in South Asia. On the other hand, there...
During the COVID-19 times it has been increasingly debated that whether it will bring about a tectonic change in the global order or this biomedical (or pandemic) tragedy would impede the rise of China. If one evaluates the developments in ...
The one of its kind virtual summit meeting between Prime Ministers of India and Australia - Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison is going to take place on June 4th and the agenda for the meeting is already long. Given the post-Covid 19 dynamics...
