South East Asia and the Art of Hedging
Critical Position of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is critically positioned at the juncture of the ongoing great-power competition. This region has already faced the heat of the Cold war bloc politics and so the drawbacks of balancing and bandwagoning. The change in the world order from bipolar to unipolar and currently in a multipolar world […]
Geopolitics of Corridor and Crossroads in the South Caucasus
The stretch of south Caucasus has historically been revered with the status of strategic significance in the international geopolitical order due to its resource rich landscape and geographic location. This Eurasian region also distinguished as the trans Caucasus (Za Kavkazie), lies between the Caspian and the Black Sea that despite having a contagious geography lacks […]
China’s Major Rare Earth Source is Not China, its Myanmar
The US and China rivalry, if anything else, is certainly over the extraction, production and distribution of critical minerals. These minerals, as rare as they are to be found, are equally difficult to mine and process. The new age technology is heavily dependent on them. From telecommunications devices & equipment to automobiles, it is almost […]
Is India Ready for a Renewed Civil Nuclear Liability Law?
What is Civil Nuclear Liability? Civil Nuclear Liability basically outlines the legal responsibilities and just compensation of victims in an event of a nuclear disaster. What it ensures is that the victims swiftly and fairly get their due compensation and the party responsible is held legally accountable for whatever damage that has been caused. The […]
Syria’s Inroads into the International Order
Syria has embarked upon a novel expedition in the post Assad era where it strives to ensure its resurgence into the liberal international world order and strategically sail away from the prolonged isolation. Damascus seeks to spur a strategic dawn in order to transform the extant national narrative and calibrate a cautious diplomatic tactic to […]
Frozen Talks, Rising Stakes: The Ceasefire Impasse in Gaza
The extended stalemate in ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel has ever more intensively escalated both humanitarian misery in Gaza as well as Middle Eastern geopolitical instability at large. Despite many diplomatic efforts on the part of international mediators, no accord has presented sustainable or mutually acceptable conditions. Therefore, the peace process remains frozen compounded […]
All You Need to Know About the 12-Day War
On the dawn of 13 June 2025, West Asia crossed a line it had tiptoed around for decades. Sirens wailed across Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Israel announced the launch of Operation Rising Lion, a preemptive strike targeting Iran’s nuclear and ballistic infrastructure. What followed was twelve days of extraordinary attacks between two states that […]
Constructivist Perspectives on Norms and Symbolic Framing in the Israel-Gaza Conflict
Key takeaways: Identities are constructed and fluid. Dialogue efforts demonstrate how oppositional identities can change when individuals acknowledge common humanity. Symbols form moral legitimacy. Translating war talk from sacralised conflict to humanitarian story deconstructs the moral basis for violence. Norms and reputation issues serve as constraints. Even dominant states are concerned with legitimacy. Bottom-up and […]
A Tribute to Professor Joseph Nye: Reshaping International Relations Theory
When tasked with writing a tribute to Professor Joseph Nye, I found myself questioning whether I was qualified to honor a towering figure who has been celebrated as one of the world’s most influential International Politics scholars. Rather than attempting to capture his personal life, I choose to render my admiration by examining his impact […]
How the Mekong River Basin became a Stage for Power Rivalry?
The Mekong River is a trans-boundary river which spans for 4,350 km, is co-shared by China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos PDR and Vietnam. Given the presence of rich biodiversity, resources, food supply chain and tourism- it acts as a lifeline for all the upper and lower riparian states. The river originates in the Jifu Mountain […]