As the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s antagonistic strategies have begun to alter political and economic dynamics across the globe, it is only likely that many countries will now adjust their foreign policies and strategies as well. It has become apparent that a definitive change has begun to take ...
Commentaries
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 legislature. With t...
China’s construction activity in the Sihanoukville port in Cambodia as part of One Belt One Road Initiative, and the adjoining development of a large air strip at Ream military base has garnered international media attention. In late 2019, Cambodia acceded to the UNCLOS which was seen primarily to...
In the next five years, Sri Lanka is striding on a economic vision plan to achieve a export target of $20 billion dollars. The country’s export performance had recovered after the slump in the years 2015 and 2016 to US$ 16.4 billion dollars in 2019. The largest contribution to the ...
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, is becoming the microcosm of power-politic between regional ...
Amid the pandemic that is sweeping the world and the United States embroiled in domestic racial tensions with President Donald Trump, and the era of the US dollar’s “exorbitant privilege”, a word coined by France’s then-finance minister Valery Giscard d’Estaing, as the world’s primary re...
Being the largest nation in South Asia, India was elected as non-permanent member of the powerful United Nations Security Council (UNSC) with an overwhelming number of votes crossing the two-thirds majority mark. According to Article 23 of the United Nations charter, the Security Council consis...
While racism has ended at global level but an exclusive ‘white club’ still exists in the intelligence domain. It is known as Five Eyes project. Under this project five countries - US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand are integrated into one intelligence and signals sharing platform...