The reappearance of the Taliban in 2021 has put foreign actors, particularly neighbouring countries, in a difficult geopolitical scenario. The Islamic Republic of Iran which shares a border of around 585 miles frontier and a strong cultural...
Four weeks have passed since Russia began its military invasion of Ukraine. Over the last few months in 2021, Russia was building up its military presence along the border with Ukraine in an overt response to increasing NATO expansion eastw...
On 15 August 2021, the Taliban seized the capital of Afghanistan, and soon after this, it has brought almost all of it under its control. The siege began two weeks before the deadline set by the United States to retreat its troops following...
Beijing Winter Olympics was held between 4 to 20th February 2022. Olympics have always been political. It is a platform that attracts one of the largest crowd and media attention from various nations. Hence, it allows concerned voices to be...
Estonia the small Baltic state in Europe and a member of the European Union is leading the way in cyber security. With international cooperation with several states and organizations like NATO, it also organizes an annual cyber security exe...
Turkey is the only Muslim majority country that is part of NATO and aspiring to be a member of the European Union for a long time. It is a predominantly Sunni majority country. Turkey once was an Islamic nation that was known for its modera...
NATO and Russia are again at loggerheads concerning the Ukraine issue. Russia with its huge army is knocking at the doorsteps of Europe. The issue of who shoulders the responsibility of Europe’s defence is again at the fore. Looking critica...
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is the umbrella organisation for al-Qaeda groups in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In support of al-Qaeda's doctrine, AQAP has conducted deadly jihadist assaults both locally and overseas. it is best known ...
The Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory sparked a flurry of heated debates within and among the International Politics intelligentsia, but a large number of scholars agree that Russian belligerence arose in response to the West's unwill...
Poland, for NATO, has been the first line of defence, with a multinational battle group has been set both in Poland and the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). After the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the US also...
Ukraine has been under attack and is looking for the US and NATO support which is not coming. In that context it is important to evaluate US-Ukraine defence ties. For 30 years of Ukrainian independence, Ukraine and the United States (US) ha...
From a structural realist point of view, in an anarchic system, states are fearful and suspicious of each other due to their 'inscrutable intentions'. As a result, they constantly face security dilemmas where any step by a state to increase...
