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From Aid Recipient to Agenda Setter: India’s Development Diplomacy in Africa and the Indo-Pacific

India’s development diplomacy is characterised by partnership-based engagement, making it an agenda-setter that presents an alternative to the transactional aid-for-trade approaches of Beijing and...

How and Why Nigeria Turned Confrontation into Collaboration with the USA

The vast oil reserves of Nigeria give it strategic importance, and the US National Security Strategy places a high premium on protecting these resources. ...

Merz’s China Visit: Resetting Economic and Strategic Ties

At the core of discussions with Chinese leadership, including President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang, was the need to deepen economic cooperation while confronting long-standing structural issues...

Cross-Border Strikes and Hostage Threats Push Islamabad and Kabul Toward the Brink

Pakistan’s cross-border airstrikes in Afghanistan during Ramadan and the Baloch Liberation Army’s hostage video have sharply escalated tensions, raising fears of a broader regional conflict...

Law as Gender Apartheid: How the Taliban’s New Penal Code Is Engineering the Erasure of Afghan Women

Afghanistan is now the only country in the world where girls over the age of 12 are systematically prohibited from secondary and tertiary education...

Digital Currency Wars: The Battle Reshaping Global Finance

The expansion of CBDC initiatives suggests that the future monetary system will likely be multipolar rather than dominated by a single currency regime...

The Himalayan Tightrope: Countering Third-Party Influence through Integrated Development and Connectivity

Landlocked states of Nepal and Bhutan are compelled to balance the competing interests of major powers, most notably China and, increasingly, Western actors expanding their presence through...

Chagos, Seychelles, and Malaysia: India’s Maritime Strategy in a Contested Indo-Pacific

The India–Seychelles relationship is strategically important because Seychelles, located in the southwestern Indian Ocean near the African continent, provides significant geopolitical visibility and...

Another President impeached: Peru’s Leadership Crisis Continues

The immediate trigger for Jerí’s downfall was a scandal dubbed “Chifagate,” centred on secret, off-the-record meetings with Chinese businessmen...