The changed pattern of contemporary power politics and the outbreak of the Ukraine war between the United States and Russia have changed the standings of various states in their respective regions. The outbreak of war between two major powers has again compelled the governments of various states to formalize their defence postures against the emerging…
The recent flag-burning events in Armenia have created a new wave of political hate in the Caucasian region, where the Azerbaijani nation is already witnessing various acts of violence from Armenia. The recent event took place on April 14, 2023, during a European Weightlifting Championship in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. During the opening ceremony of…
The Sino-Indian strategic contest has become an undeniable reality of the contemporary international system where the broader US-China multileveled competition has taken on many faces and affected the politics of different regions where South Asia and Southeast Asia are the exceptions. Indian increasing strategic collaboration with the United States and American growing global anti-Chines engagements…
The emerging trends of great power politics have transformed the conventional nature of the international system. This transformation has started pushing the existing designs of great power politics towards a complex oceanic political order in which different mini-alliances of states have begun appearing from different regions. In the debates on the emerging new mini-lateral strategic…
India seeks to become an important player in global governance it being the world’s largest democracy and one of the fastest-growing economies. The Indian government has developed various models of multileveled economic and strategic engagements with other states from across the globe. India has also actively participated in various global governance forums, such as the…
The Saudi-Iranian rapprochement has always remained an impracticable concept in the politics of the Muslim world, where the governments of both states have developed extremely incompatible and contrasting stands against each other. Both states developed strict competing behaviors and translated their competition into hostile diplomatic interactions. The diplomatic hostility between Iran and Saudi Arabia is…
A number of authors from across the globe have examined the history of the post-partition subcontinent because the British colonial retreat from the subcontinent laid the foundations of the enduring India-Pakistan rivalry and added another chapter in the history of the subcontinent. The partition ended the colonial era and initiated a multilevel hostility between two…
The bi-annual naval exercise, Pakistan Aman 23, has again communicated to the world Pakistan’s vision for keeping the South Asian oceanic politics peaceful and stable in terms of evolving regional power politics of a nuclearized subcontinent. This naval exercise aims to promote regional cooperation, enhance interoperability among participating navies, and foster peace and stability in…
The debate on the intense South Asian regional security environment cannot be separated from the subcontinent’s history under British colonial rule. The British colonial retreat started another era of intra-regional conflict in the South Asian region and laid the foundations of a perpetual rivalry between India and Pakistan. The regional political trends of South Asia…
The Indian quest for maintaining a regionally dominating status and its projection in the broader Asian power balance has led New Delhi towards the oceanic politics of the surrounding waters. The security architectures of Indian defense policy have started paying attention to the strengthening of India’s position in the maritime domain, which has made the…
