International Relations in India & Beyond
The past may be a surprisingly useful guide for predicting responses to future climate change. This is especially important for places where extreme weather has been the norm for a long time, such as...
India and Pakistan are back at it again. On 14 February, 44 soldiers from Indian paramilitary forces were killed in Indian Kashmir. The attack was perpetrated by Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM), a Pakistani jihadist group that...
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind.”—Anna Julia Cooper From Lahore’s barren bus stops to the Nairobi...
New Delhi, 29 May 2025 — On the occasion of the International Day of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers, the United Service Institution of India (USI) hosted a high-level symposium commemorating India’s 75-year journey in...
“Never know where the bullets might hit Never know when the bombs might fall. We are living in such a dangerous world. It’s enough to scare you to death” The aforementioned poetry by Dorsey...
Introduction Protecting civilians is the UN’s priority objective. Although it is the primary responsibility of the host state to protect its people, the peacekeepers have the moral responsibility to protect innocent civilians from the...
International Humanitarian Law (IHL) consists of a set of rules that govern how states behave in war. These rules can also be called the law of war or the law of armed conflict. The...
Since taking the oath of office as President of the world’s only super-power post-Cold War, Joe Biden has committed one after another foreign policy goof up rarely seen done by any American head of...
Pivot to Asia was the brainchild of the Obama administration, finding its inception in Obama’s address to the Australian parliament. Pivot to Asia is essentially the U.S. acknowledging China’s rise globally. Being one of...
Iran and Saudi Arabia have recently announced that they will restore diplomatic relations, which could have significant geopolitical implications for the Middle East. China played a significant role in brokering this deal, which represents...
Event / Peacekeeping / United Nations
USI Annual UN Forum 2024: Changing Characters of Conflicts
27th November 2024
