Iran and China have recently surged ahead with an economic and military deal that will elevate their relationship to a new height. While this has come as a shock to many, in the midst of increasing geopolitical tensions surrounding Iran, it...
Islamic State (IS) emerged as splinter group from a faction of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, during a chaotic conflict in 2003 after the United States led invasion. The vision, which still remains constant, is to establish an ‘Islamic Caliphate’, cover...
The world at present faces several issues whether it’s the Coronavirus Pandemic, uncertainties over the existing world order have been raised accompanied with inter-state competitions in the political, economic and military realm. Recently,...
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...
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 ...
Cam Ranh Bay means ‘Sweet Stream’ which has always been the strategic point of interest since the 19th century as the French, Russian, Japanese and American navies used the wide, deep and protected natural harbours but also used it as a ref...
China imposed the universal fishing ban in the South China Sea starting from May to mid-August for all fishermen from the Spratly islands claimant countries. Imposing a ban on fishing during catch season impacts the livelihood of fishermen....
Japan, in the present times, has been facing a complex security environment because of the constant change in the balance of power within the international community. Japan realises that in the current international scenario, no country can...
During the year 1155, while Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was on a quest to conquer Italy, he chose to imply a remarkably unconventional strategy with regards to warfare. He is said to have dumped human corpses in water wells in an attempt t...
As citizens around the world are advised to stay indoors to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the North Korean government seems to be taking a different approach towards social distancing. The month of March, 2020 saw an alarming...
China has blocked a proposed meeting in the United Nations Security Council to discuss on the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It argued that Covid-19 crisis is not linked to global security. But President Donald Trump recently had a wor...
As the deadly Corona virus(COVID 19) sweeps the world with breathtaking rapidity, and nations devising strategies suitable and appropriate to them to combat the disease, and death tolls keep on mounting by the day, questions are being asked...
