More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, questions surrounding Russia's role in the post-Soviet space continue to shape global geopolitics. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, Moscow has consistently challenged aspects...
On July 4, Tehran's Grand Mosalla Mosque saw millions gather ahead of the multi-day state funeral procession of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. However, in a crucial game of optics, the funeral also revealed Iran's current political standing i...
The rapid evolution of Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the character of modern warfare while raising profound legal, ethical, and strategic questions. From early semi-autonomous weapons to fu...
The purpose of this article is to evaluate and understand the critical nature of the Armenia- Azerbaijan conflict. The conflict flared again in 2020, with a six-week war both sides have been at each other throats ever seen, on who will clai...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's rotating chairmanship was handed over to India last year in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. India will be presiding over the SCO grouping till September 2023. From being an observer state in 2005 to full membe...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an international grouping of eight member states (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), four observer states (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongol...
The 15th and 16th of September 2022 marked the 22nd annual summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The first physical meeting since the pandemic, this meeting brought ...
Central Asia has always remained a great strategic battlefield among various regional and international powers. From antiquity to the contemporary period the Central Asian Region has always found itself at the core of the international affa...
The recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has drawn attention back to the politics in Central Asia. An informal summit was conducted at the end of March this year that was attended by the leaders of member states in the Turkic Council. Two ma...
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...
In December 2019, the Russian Ambassador to India stated that Moscow hopes that the New Delhi and Eurasian Economic Union would sign a free trade agreement in 2020. In January 2020, ahead of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to India, ...
Recently, the Government of India released the Draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP 2020) with the aim to develop a robust and competitive indigenous defence industry, reduce the dependence on defence imports, and to ...
