International Relations in India & Beyond
North Korea has successfully tested a hypersonic missile, state media reported Thursday, in the first major weapons test by the nuclear-armed nation this year. This was the second reported test of what Pyongyang claimed...
A Russia-led military alliance said it would send peacekeeping forces to “stabilise” Kazakhstan, blaming mass protests that have plunged the ex-Soviet country into chaos on “outside interference”. Long seen as one the most stable...
Scene 1:- The curtain cleaves a moment frozen in time: Dust from 70’s Kabul hangs mid-air as a clique of young women makes its way downtown. What stark contrast their vivacity to the grim...
As Pakistanis grapple with doomsday-ish inflation, the government seems to be placating them with more of the same rhetoric of global price increase and supply chain disruptions. Recently I came across a statement hitting...
In March 2014, Malé decided to close its High Commission office in Dhaka because of the reduction in the annual budget. At that time, Dhaka offered to pay the rent for the Maldives’ embassy...
The ministry of defence (MoD) has released a policy called Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020(DAP 2020). 657 pages long policy, replaces the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) which was adopted in 2002. It is a mature...
Private Military Companies (PMC) can be force multipliers for state forces or agents of influence depending on how much access, responsibilities, and autonomy they are provided with. When Erik Prince, a former US Navy...
Hong Kong police raided the office of local media outlet Stand News and arrested six current and former staff on Wednesday for “seditious publication”. Suppression of Hong Kong’s local press has increased in the...
North Korea opened a key political conference Monday to review past projects and discuss new policies amid the pandemic and a diplomatic deadlock with the United States. The official Korean Central News Agency said...
To help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower,” the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world’s biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips — a...
Event / Peacekeeping / United Nations
USI Annual UN Forum 2024: Changing Characters of Conflicts
27th November 2024
