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Long Read – 10,000-word Research Paper – Download the PDF Copy here Introduction India’s geographic centrality in the Indian Ocean and its peninsular disposition with a long coastline and island territories has afforded it...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Russian foreign policy since the mid-2000s tends to be perceived in contradictory terms: as either a negative for Russia or the product of a grand strategic vision on the part of the...
On Friday 29th November 2019, the world witnessed an evil, callous and what seems to be, a premeditated terrorist attack on London Bridge against innocent civilians. I will not divulge in the exact details...
Welcome to a whole new political world. The UK general election of 2019 has delivered a seismic shift in the balance of the country’s politics, the consequences of which are very hard, if not...
Speaking on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, which took place in Brazil in mid-November, President of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev came up with a proposal to create a common...
Hong Kong’s unrest started in June 2019. It was triggered by the plans to allow extradition to mainland China. Critics felt this could compromise judicial autonomy and jeopardise free-speech legacy. Until 1997, Hong Kong...
Motto: “The light is on for those who see, not for the blind ones”.Mihai Eminescu – Romanian poet The Great Union of December 1st, 1919 was a ”stellar moment” for Romania, which was achieved...
After many years of not investing in the armed forces, Serbia began to invest more seriously in rebuilding its army. Serbia has spent close to €830 million since December 2016 to acquire new war...
Namibia’s South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) has performed exceptionally well as a governing party among the liberation movements of sub-Saharan Africa. All contemporary liberation movements that subsequently became governing parties remain in power. But none...
Greta Thunberg soared from an apparently lonely girl protesting climate change with a hand-written cardboard placard outside the parliament building in Stockholm to one of the best-recognized faces in the world, at least for...