Is Turkey heading toward regional isolation?
The recent signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE have brought up a renewed discussion on the balance of power in the Middle East and how this may be shifting....
Category: Opinion
Australian Defence Forces: An Assessment
The FORCE 2020 document was a vision document for Australian defence forces released in 2002 that aimed to look ahead at the challenges of the 21st century and prepare the ADF as a “force...
Cambodia’s corrupt land distribution and management make floods inevitable
Cambodia’s most famous architect, the late Vann Molyvann, said that “cities should be built not by landfill but by incorporating water into their design.” His advice was ignored, and Cambodians displaced by floodwaters are now...
Second Quadrilateral Ministerial Meeting at Tokyo: An Assessment
In 2019, the first Quad ministerial meeting was held in the US at New-York on the sidelines of UNGA (United national general assembly). The various issues such as maritime security, cybersecurity, environment, climate change...
Role of Turkey and Russia in Nagorno Karabakh conflict and implications for India
Clashes have erupted in Armenia and Azerbaijan over two and a half decades-long conflict in Nagorno Karabakh in late September. Hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced in recent fighting since Baku and Yerevan...
Pakistan and Bangladesh: A See-Saw Relationship
“History is past politics and politics is present history”, this quotation perfectly summarises the deeply intertwined relationship between history and politics; It is certainly not possible to understand one without taking into account other....
Jeopardy in Jaffna
Former President of the United States of America Dwight D. Eisenhower had once quoted, “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and...
Sustainable And Smart Cities In India: A Long Way To Go
India was 131 out of 188 nations on the Human Development Index report published by the United Nations Development Programme[1]. Further, the report stated that approximately 642 Indians lived in multidimensional poverty[2]. Even though...
Non-Aligned Movement- A Farce in Indian Foreign Policy?
Few of DELHI’s bilateral relations get as much attention as its growing engagement with the USA and none of its global groupings generates as much political heat as the so-called QUAD- the quadrilateral security...
Climate Change and Wildlife
Ever imagined what a mix of polar bear and grizzly bear would look like? Pretty adorable, right? Now imagine a cross of tigers and lions; or Narwhals and Beluga whales, doesn’t it all sound...
