Opinion

Three months after the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) entered into force on 15 July 2026, a high-level British trade mission of more than 100–200 companies, three cabinet …

As of mid-October 2026, Pakistan faces intertwined political, security, and economic pressures that could spill over. The military-backed government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari has …

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 …