X’s Role in Shaping India’s 2024 Elections: Mobilisation, Misinformation, and...
The Indian general elections of 2024 revealed how X (formerly Twitter), rebranded in March 2023, has changed the face of political discourse in a country with more than 900 million internet users. It...
View ArticleU.S.-Africa Trade in the Trump Era: Challenges, Changes & the Road Ahead
In the context of rapidly changing geopolitical situation characterized by complexities and contradictions, majority of African countries are facing strained challenges with trade and in economic...
View ArticleThe Fuel Embargo on Tigray is a siege
Tigray is once again facing a calculated blockade—not through direct military assault, but through economic strangulation that threatens lives just as effectively as war. The deliberate restriction of...
View ArticleUnderstanding China’s Strategy for the Taiwan Dilemma: The Good, the Bad, or...
As the three-year-long conflict between self-determination and irredentist policy in Ukraine seems to be reaching its conclusion, International Relations connoisseurs are now reminded of a similar...
View ArticleSomaliland and the emerging Geopolitical alignment in Middle East and Horn of...
In the last century, the Westphalian nation system has redrawn the political cartography across various parts of the globe. Shaped by colonial legacies, it has created new national entities across the...
View ArticleThe War of Tariffs – Trumps all Economies
It’s April, and the world is jittery as Trumponomics sets the agenda for a war that is bound to go beyond geographical boundaries and impact businesses, consumers, and governments across the globe....
View ArticleTrump May Have Pushed the U.S.-China Summit Further Away
On April 1, China once again conducted a large-scale military exercise encircling Taiwan, marking the fifth such event since August 2022, when then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, and...
View Article“The Strong Do What They Can”: Trump, Greenland, and the Modern Melian Dialogue
In Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War, the Melian Dialogue records a chilling encounter between imperial but democratic Athens and the neutral island of Melos. The Melians appeal to...
View ArticleThe Demise of the Two-State Solution: The Assassination of Count Folke...
After World War II, the UN Partition Plan and Israel’s unilateral declaration of independence, a Swedish diplomat and aristocrat, Count Folke Bernadotte, was appointed the UN Security Council mediator...
View ArticleBalancing Giants: Indonesia’s Defense Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific Through...
Amid the ongoing tensions, Indonesia beat the odds by involving the United States (US), China, and Russia in the 5th Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK). Indonesia hosted the 5th MNEK in 2025,...
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