Articles in Geopolitics
Challenges and Opportunities for India in QUAD
By: Deepak Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2023
QUAD, that includes the US, Japan, Australia, and India, had been dormant until 2017, restructured for various reasons such as growing presence of China and its aggressive behavior in...
Tremors in the West
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2023
An article in The Economist on May 25, 2017 talked of Ukraine fighting two wars; with Russia in the East and with its core – battling endemic corruption. The level of corruption has shot up...
Political and Economic Instability in Pakistan causes concerns to its neighbour
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2023
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”. Unfortunately, both the immediate neighbours – Pakistan and China – are hostile towards India however; the growing political and economic...
Why an Invasion of Taiwan is not Xi Jinping’s Immediate Priority
By: Col Deepak Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 2023
Reunification of Taiwan with mainland China has been the generation long ambition of the present lot of leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. During many Congresses of the Communist Party this...
Pakistan Army’s Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Problem
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2023
To be on the same page with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is certainly not a compliment. Hence, when I say that by expressing the “hope that the establishment’s...
Pakistan in Hot Soup
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2023
Pakistani historian and academic FS Aijazuddin wrote in a recent article, “At the moment, Pakistan, like some charpoy left out in the rain, is precariously balanced on its four uneven corners....
India-US Military Exercises and China’s Woes: Stop Reacting, Start Responding
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 05 Jan , 2023
The state of Sino-Indian bilateral relations according to India’s Foreign Minister and former Foreign Secretary Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is ‘not normal’. Even while the militaries of both...
Why Anti-Taliban Resistance Should be Supported
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2023
Recently the Taliban have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women. The Ministry of Higher Education stated this in a letter issued to all government and...
Pakistan’s War on Terror: Just Sound and Fury?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2023
Déjà vu In the first corps commanders’ conference chaired by Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asif Munir which concluded recently, it was “resolved to fight against terrorists without any...
Managing Dragon's Consistent Perfidy
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Dec , 2022
The phenomenal rise in the past two decades or so of the global hegemon, China, is unquestionably one of the major challenges confronting peace loving and international laws-abiding nations...
Escalating-Level of Crisis and Widening Geo-political Divides Hitting...
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 29 Dec , 2022
Afghanistan is riven by geopolitical divides, conflicts, and instability for decades which inflicted incalculable damage and the unflinching testimonies of a future of constant crises and...
Egypt Until Democracy
By: Dr Pushpa Adhikari | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2022
Introduction River valleys and deltas are the known cradles of civilization all over the world. Situated in the northeastern corner of Africa, Egypt is one of the principal civilizations of...
Zelenskyy’s Mission Washington
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2022
The suited-booted US President Joe Biden rushing across the red carpet to hug Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was quite a sight – almost like a papal embrace to a baptized slave returning...
Turkey’s Rise in the Security Sphere: Can Turkey Sustain it or will She...
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 27 Dec , 2022
Turkey’s geo-strategic location in Europe gives it a unique bridging ability between Russia and the West. Turkey’s geo-political influence expands across continents, from states on its...
China Wins Nepal Again
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2022
The Nepali Congress emerged as the single largest party winning 89 seats in the recent General Elections in Nepal to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives; 165 members from...