Opinion

The US’s Monroe Doctrine and aggressively assertive diplomatic tactics have not led to lasting success in the global order. Power politics may have given weight to the powerful, as Thucydides …

Four weeks after the first Houthi barrage on Saudi cities, the Mecca Pact’s committee announced on 5 October that it would activate collective deterrence and ensure the “rapid deployment” of …

Anthropic’s Generative Threat Group (GTG) for threat actors who use its AI products, a group of non-state actors based in northern Yemen—a region having strong Houthi presence used Claude AI …

The Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s recent visit to Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Ethiopia was more than protocol. It reflected a relationship increasingly defined by concrete trade numbers, investment …

Returning from a state visit to China in 2024, the then-newly elected Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu took a swipe at India, declaring that the Indian Ocean does not belong to …

For years, de-dollarization has been discussed as though a monetary revolution was under way, with the BRICS nations challenging the US dollar. Recent BRICS and SCO deliberations, however, suggest a …

The past fortnight has seen high-stakes developments in geopolitics. President Xi Jinping made his first trip to India in seven years, followed by a great power summit with the United …

When India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, sat down in Accra this week with President John Dramani Mahama and Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the meetings were easy to file …

After five years, the US is witnessing another withdrawal after Afghanistan. Unlike the last withdrawal, which was chaotic and messy, the exit from Iraq seems normal, but it leaves the …

The elements of a strong economic relationship between India and Canada have never been lacking. What has been missing, at different points, has been the political and institutional momentum to …

Geopolitics is unpredictable. The ongoing trajectory of China-India relations offers a clear pattern of strategic convergence towards accommodating coexistence without abandoning their fundamental interests. Neither Beijing nor New Delhi subscribes …

1. A Hypothesis, Tested in Real Time Saudi Arabia’s political economy has rested on a single mechanism since the 1970s oil shocks: hydrocarbon rents converted into fiscal revenue, welfare spending …

The question often asked is: Does Donald Trump care about India? It is a rather personal question for a relationship built over a quarter-century by governments, businesses, armed forces and …

Powerus, a promising American defence company with ties to the family of U.S. President Donald Trump, made a huge splash last week by expanding its contract portfolio through a memorandum …

Islamist radicalisation is the process by which a political-religious ideology—commonly called Islamism or Salafi-jihadism in its most violent forms—converts religious identity into a programme of supremacy and, frequently, organised violence. …

As Pakistan’s internal and external challenges multiply, Afghanistan has once again become a convenient battlefield for its military establishment. The airstrikes allow Islamabad to project an image of confronting security …

Perhaps after decades, a 9/11-style terror attack could be repeated in Israel, with an Omani co-pilot stabbing Indian pilot Smit Macchar, the captain, and putting the flight into a nose …

The revival of trade negotiations between the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and India marks a potentially significant turning point in Africa’s economic engagement with emerging global powers. On 12 …

For India, the disruption of Gulf energy infrastructure is an immediate strategic and economic concern. India’s proximity to the Gulf, its dependence on imported hydrocarbons and its expanding energy requirements …

In 1983, perhaps the dangers of the Cuban Missile Crisis resurfaced when two similar events occurred in the same year, but this time not because of deterrence and Cold War …

On September 16-17, 2026, Pakistan and China established a new border commission in Islamabad. India promptly dismissed the initiative as lacking legitimacy. According to Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir …