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Debt, Dollar and Dependency: How Financial Architecture Keeps the Global South in Check

Ultimately, the story of debt, the dollar, and dependency is not solely about finance; it is about power, who holds it, how it is exercised, and how it shapes the developmental possibilities available...

Iran’s Grand Strategy: From Revolutionary Isolation to Fragmented Warfare

Through its ‘forward Defence doctrine’, Iran has supported regional proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and militias in Iraq and Syria so that the US and Israel were kept preoccupied enough to...

Fault Lines of the Frontier: Tribal Loyalties and the New Pakistan–Afghanistan Tensions

The Durand Line has neither been formally recognised by successive Afghan governments nor accepted as a legitimate international boundary, making it one of the most politically and socially contested...

AI Warfare and the Fragility of the Geneva Order

AI has proved to be a technological transformation and now threatens the moral architecture that sustained those rules...

Mindfulness at the Frontier: India, Bhutan, and the Reimagining of the Himalayan Border

The Gelephu Gambit indicates a movement away from the conventional donor–recipient model of development towards more cooperative and mutually beneficial economic partnerships...

India–US in the Indo-Pacific: From Strategic Alignment to Structural Necessity

The India-US convergence is a direct response to China’s assertive expansionism, visible in its construction of artificial islands within the Exclusive Economic Zones of Vietnam, Japan, and the...

When Foreign Policy Comes Home: Why India Needs Domestic Public Diplomacy

India must move beyond a reactive public relations approach and adopt a more proactive model of domestic public diplomacy. ...

The Durand Line Dilemma: A Frontier of Fragility, Insurgency, and Unfinished Sovereignty

The ambiguity surrounding the border, combined with the limited institutional capacity of both Afghanistan and Pakistan, has contributed to the emergence and persistence of armed non-state actors...

Hungary’s Defiance and the Fracturing of Europe’s Ukraine Consensus

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has been openly critical of the European Union’s financial and military support for Kyiv, describing it as a strategic miscalculation that burdens an already strained...