No Comments AUKUS is a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America to counter China’s hegemony and expansionist policy, specifically in the Indo-pacific region and generally in global politics. The pact was signed on 15 September 2021 and announced cooperatively by US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister of the UK […]
No Comments The heavy dependence of multiple countries, especially from the affluent part of the world, on Russian Energy resources is why many scholars have designated it as the ‘Energy Superpower’. The fact that major European countries like Germany are unwilling to stop their purchases from Russia even in the face of its actions in Ukraine, attests […]
No Comments Sri Lanka’s $81 billion economy struggled to manage its external debt, which had grown in part due to loans from China to fund ambitious infrastructure projects. Family control in government is not liked by the opposition and the people. They blame their dynasty for the crisis and mismanagement. From 2020 onwards with the arrival of […]
1 Comment In international relations, three cognitive psychological concepts are used to understand and decode the behavioral aspects of political leadership across the world: Confirmation Bias, Fundamental attribution error and Prospect theory. Critical thinking and decision making approach applied to political psychology allows us to carefully deconstruct a situation, reveal its hidden issues such as bias and […]
No Comments The People of India at large, in their collective conscience, have forgotten the history and significant events that unfolded in the making of the modern Indian Republic. They have forgotten the communal travesties caused by the partition, unleashed by the forces fighting for the establishment of an Islamic state. The CAA legislation is a delayed […]
1 Comment The American Military Industrial Complex (AMIC) is a perceived informal alliance between a portion of the nation’s scientific and technological community, its defence establishment and certain sectors of the country’s military base. In 2021 the defence Budget of the US has gone up to $778 Billion, which means the United States spends more on defence […]
No Comments During his campaign, President-Elect Yoon Suk-yeol had called for “pursuing additional anti-missile system deployment,” and “doing away with South Korea’s submissive diplomacy toward China.” South Korea’s approach to Quad has been similar to its approach to the free-and-open Indo-Pacific narrative work with partners practically while avoiding open endorsement of their regional strategies. Seoul is looking […]
No Comments The Russian invasion of Ukraine through a full scale all out attack, by the means of land, air and the sea, has sent shockwaves across the world. Most of the European countries are seriously worried about their security and the future implications of the conflict. Except international criticism, NATO and the American sanctions, futile resolutions […]
No Comments India has a golden opportunity to increase its soft power and global stature by taking up a diplomatic initiative aiming for strategic outcomes. India needs to look beyond its neighbourhood first policy and adopt an internationalist approach in suggesting peaceful resolution mechanisms in international conflicts, border disputes and ensuring stable relations with other nations. Given […]
No Comments Nobody expected the world’s attention would shift to Ukraine when Covid-19, its origin, vaccine, Iran Nuclear Deal, Yemen Crisis, Afghanistan: Taliban, American exit, China-Taiwan to South China Sea crisis, India-China border tensions due to the acts of China occupied the major space. But the sudden crisis in Ukraine and the incidents in Donbas changed the […]
