International Relations in India & Beyond
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal and political troubles will play out simultaneously on Monday, at his corruption trial and in the president’s residence. Judges ordered Netanyahu to be in court for the prosecution’s...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey, a member of NATO, now effectively has a jihadi proxy force that it has deployed in its Syrian homeland as well as in faraway war theaters like Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. An assortment...
China and Iran signed a deal over the weekend that their foreign ministers said was designed as a strategic partnership to last for the next quarter of a century. The details have not been...
Oil prices fell more than 1% as fresh coronavirus lockdowns revived worries about demand for oil products, even as tug boats struggled to move a stranded container ship blocking crude oil carriers in the...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Brig.-Gen. (res.) Hasson Hasson’s recent depiction of the threats facing Israel is very disturbing, even if it contains no new revelations. The IDF is undergoing a revolution as it strives to be prepared to handle these...
Protesters burned tyres and blocked roads in Beirut on Tuesday as the Lebanese currency crashed past a new milestone. Market dealers said the Lebanese pound was trading at around 15,000 to the dollar, having...
Ten years into Syria’s conflict, President Bashar al-Assad has survived the bloody insurgency which started out with peaceful protests in March 2011. He holds sway over many parts of the country, helped by Russia’s...
For about a decade now, the southernmost country of the Arabian peninsula Yemen has been witnessing a protracted war that has ravaged the country internally and has caused innumerable sufferings. What began as a...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in 2050 as stretching from southeastern Europe...
When Jorge Mario Bergoglio took over the Papacy from Pope Benedict XVI as Pope Francis in 2013, he became a man of many firsts. He became the first Pontiff, and also the first Pope,...
Event / Peacekeeping / United Nations
USI Annual UN Forum 2024: Changing Characters of Conflicts
27th November 2024
