America has inserted itself deeper into the China-India-Pakistan triangle, altering the shape of the regional order, pushing it toward a bipolar one with Beijing and Islamabad on one side and New Delhi and, to some extent, itself on the other. It isn’t entirely clear what is taking place …

By Vladimir Putin The Russian president offers a comprehensive assessment of the legacy of World War II, arguing that “Today, European politicians, and Polish leaders in particular, wish to sweep the Munich Betrayal under the carpet. The Munich Betrayal showed to the Soviet Union that the Western countries …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs  South Asia makes up about 22% of the world’s population, but global water resources in the region have become as precious as new oil, so there is no alternative to water. The Tibetan Plateau will play a key …

Giancarlo Elia Valori As many people know, the Israeli government was supposed to be formed after the elections of April 9, 2019, but Netanyahu himself failed to do so and the Knesset was dissolved again to prepare for further elections, which took place on September 17, 2019. Even …

Manish Kumar India and Russia enjoy “Special and privileged strategic partnership”, which entails multidimensional cooperation extending to all areas of the bilateral relationship especially in the areas of political, security, trade and economy, defense, education, science & technology, culture, and people to people.  Although the multidimensional relationship has …

Roman Mayka In March 2019, under the aegis of the United States Department of State, a group of researchers released a report called “Weapons of Mass Distraction: Foreign State-Sponsored Disinformation in the Digital Age.” The report mostly focused on foreign states’ propaganda, disinformation and fake news. Taking into …

Abbas Ali Bughio The Sino-Indian boundary originated in 1834, with the conquest of Ladakh by the armies of Raja Gulab Singh under the suzerainty of the Sikh Empire. Gulab Singh and the Tibetans signed a Treaty in 1842 agreeing to stick to the old established frontiers later, the British …

George Tzogopoulos French President Emmanuel Macron has his own vision about geopolitics and wants the EU to actively take part in the ongoing debate about international security and forge closer ties with Russia. Whether France can lead the EU to act autonomously remains to be seen in the …

Puru P. Trivedi The United States is facing the worst economic crisis in our lifetime. So far, we have taken major steps to ‘band-aid’ the most urgent and short-term financial struggles with stimulus relief packages, enhanced unemployment and trillions of dollars deployed to aid both small business and …