India’s Potential to Influence the New Global Consensus
The Davos model of globalisation needs a successor that India has the potential to be.
Category Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies
Political Turmoil in Pakistan: Challenges and Changes Ahead
Even as one circus of the absurd has ended in Pakistan, another has begun. The farcical nature of the electoral exercise in the country has produced an even more farcical outcome. Even as Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent candidates continue to maintain their lead on the victory board, Nawaz Sharif has gone ahead and given a victory speech.
Shifting Paradigms: India and the Gulf in the Last 10 Years
In recent decades, six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE have emerged as pivotal in West Asia due to their huge sovereign wealth and Petro dollars, reformist policies and fast-moving diversification of their economies and interests beyond the hydrocarbons and regional heft as they continue to play a much bigger role in the global scheme of things.
The Eve, the Dawn, and the Unwritten Chapter: Exploring Palestine’s Tapestry
The possible path to peace and justice in Palestine
Iranian Tactics in the West Asian Crisis
India and Iran do have a civilisational and strategic partnership which had fallen into disuse due to the consistent US pressure through CAATSA and bilateral negotiations.
The Trump Effect: Defining the Narrative in American Presidential Elections
The projected return of Trump to the White House has serious implications for US domestic politics as also for the US leadership (or lack of it) in world affairs.
Stars, Stripes, and Struggles: Navigating the Turbulence of American Democracy Today
The world is passing through a phase of disorder, which is posing serious policy questions for nations big and small. But the one country that should have been at the center of shaping these conversations is entangled with its own domestic political challenges. The US is struggling to find some meaning in the spectacle that is passing for American democracy these days.