Why Washington and Tehran Sidelined the World
US and Iran have carefully sidelined other major players in their negotiation exercise by keeping it strictly Bilateral. This development proposes a new regional matrix but the question is the durability of this renewed bilateralism.
The Anatomy of a Failed Negotiation: US–Iran Through Five Strategic Lenses
US-Iran Negotiations: Five of the most thorough studies of international negotiation suggest that this debacle was inevitable and that Islamabad may yet be where future rounds of negotiations are doomed. What are those Five Lenses of Negotiations ?
The Iran Crisis and China’s Deafening Silence: Why Beijing Is Not and Will Not Be a Superpower in the near Future
Material strength alone will not make someone a superpower, but their intent to get involved in a crisis and have a say.
Taliban’s Afghanistan : The land where women saw fragile promises of freedom and justice
Afghanistan is a harsh reminder of how quickly rights can disappear when power becomes law and how deeply the effects are felt when the law itself becomes a weapon of terror.
A Delicate Balance: Can History and Geopolitics Co-exist in the New India-Bangladesh Dynamic?
The New India-Bangladesh dynamic – Will the newly elected BNP hold its historical baggage with India or will it forge a renewed alliance that was strained during the interim period.
The Davos Confession: Our Global Order Was a Fiction
Carney’s admission wasn’t an astonishing disclosure rather it was a long expected acknowledgement of the Illusion of the global order.
How India and the Middle East are Learning to Listen to Each Other Through Music
Music diplomacy – In a time when diplomacy is often loud, argumentative, and watched by the public, music offers a quiet but lasting alternative.
When oil is cheap, strategic autonomy is easy
True strategic autonomy will not be achieved by rhetoric or selective resistance, but through structural changes such as energy diversification, increased domestic capacity, and less sensitivity to external price shocks
The End of ‘Strategic Restraint’ : Naked Power returns to U.S Foreign Policy
You may not need legitimacy, all you need is mighty. The U.S strike on Venezuela and the abduction of its President Maduro signals clearly that it is the culmination of the end of strategic restraint.
After Ukraine and Gaza: Has Global Diplomacy Entered a Post Normative Era?
When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the reaction extended beyond a simple violation of sovereignty. It concerned the disintegration of an entire normative framework that had characterized post-Cold War international relations.