On 6 May 2021, Maldivian ex-President and the current Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Nasheed was gravely injured in a bomb attack. Post an intense lifesaving surgery, Nasheed seems to be stable, but the same cannot be said for the Maldivian n...
Oliver Roy, one of the leading French political scientists who worked extensively on "a different view of radical Islam", distinguishes Islamism and neo-fundamentalism. While differentiating these two tendencies, he defines that the former ...
Ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the region of Central Asia has emerged as an intriguing field of politics, religion and security. The establishment of these newly formed republics was not only challenged by the Soviet U...
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Ground Force's Quds Base claimed that it has freed two of its border guards in a successful intelligence operation on February 2 night. The recent flare up at the border between Shiite Iran and Sunni...
India has acquired a new persona during these tough times of coronavirus pandemic. Twelve months after the COVID- 19 global health crisis had stalled the global economy, increased the suffering of human lives, India brought about its answer...
The article talks about how Turkey is trying to regain authority it once held in Balkans under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire for six centuries, from the 14th century till the end of the First World War. Present day-Russia, which used to h...
Radicalisation is a phenomenon which is worrying and sometimes deadly all around the world. It has been 19 years since the 9/11 attacks which shook the world. However, most of the governments have not been able to create offensive/defensive...
States have been the most essential unit since the Treaty of Westphalia. The world has seen the entry of many new actors, but the state remains the most fundamental unit in international relations. The 9/11 attacks represent a major shift i...
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 ...
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...
The term ‘bank’ originates from the Italian word ‘banco’ meaning bench. During the renaissance, moneylenders carried out most of their transactions over these benches, and since then they have become symbolic of banks, and other financial f...
Kritika Karmakar analyses the reasons for increase in Islamic state sympathisers in Indonesia, and why few major religious organisations are subscribing to the concept of Islamic caliphate. Islamic State sympathisers have been on the rise, ...
