Global Policy & Analysis
Talks in Moscow have concluded between the Taliban and members of the High Peace Council of Afghanistan, a group with close ties to Kabul. In another historic move, Indian representatives were present at the table where peace initiatives were being discussed while representatives from China, Pakistan, the US and the […]
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has just dissolved the nation’s parliament and called for new elections to be held on the 5th of January, 2019. Normally this would not be a controversial act but for the fact that it comes after Sirisena suspended parliament after naming a new Prime Minister who happens […]
Ms. Beenish Sultan, a Ph.D. student at Pakistan’s National Defence University, conducted the following interview with Andrew Korybko as part of her research on the topic of BRICS and the post-Cold War order: What in your opinion is the future of ‘multilateralism’ and the rise of major powers like China […]
Brazil is currently the largest exporter of soybeans to China while the US has traditionally not been far behind. That said, the US soybean industry was the first hit by Donald Trump’s trade war against China. As part of Beijing’s policy to reciprocate Washington’s tariffs with couter-tariffs, new trade ramparts […]
Many observers are wondering why the US issued a sanctions waiver for the Indian-built port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran and the railroad project that’s supposed to one day extend from it to Afghanistan, but the reason is that America sees this curious “Lead From Behind” arrangement as one of […]
From a diverse history to a sectarian crisis The modern borders of India do not precisely correspond to those of any one of the many sovereign entities that arose in south Asia over the millennia. Instead, today’s India in terms of its political geography was shaped by the modern Partition […]
Sri Lanka is in the midst of a serious political crisis after President Maithripala Sirisena abruptly sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with former political rival (and former President) Mahinda Rajapaksa. According to Sirisena and his supporters, the proximate causes of Wickremesinghe’s dismissal were personal, cultural and class differences that Sirisena called irreconcilable. Furthermore, […]
Any country that forms its diplomatic relations on the basis of ideology rather than pragmatism is necessarily signing up for conflicts which are as unnecessary as they are detrimental. Just as so-called interlocking alliances in Europe led to a regionalised Balkan conflict growing into a monstrous First World War, so […]
During this year’s BRICS summit in South Africa, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear that groups like the BRICS represent a forum for Turkey to enhance its existing global connectivity initiatives with the diverse economies of the rapidly developing global south. Turkey continues to play an active, expanding and […]
India reportedly to get a sanctions waiver over Russian weapon purchases Reports from India suggest that the United States is willing to grant India a wavier under CAATSA sanctions rules that would allow New Delhi to go forward with its S-400 missile defence system deal with Russia so long as […]
