Setting the Stage This little area of a mere 1700 square miles nestled in the South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and forming the south eastern stretch of the Lesser Caucasus mountain range has seen war, destruction....
Tags : Article , Nagorno , Karabakh , Arsakh , Armenia Azerbaijan conflict
The expansive South China Sea, covering an area of more than 3.5 million square kilometres consisting of atolls, reefs is arguably the most contested waters of Asia. The reserve of hydro carbons and its strategic location in the vicinity of shipping ....
Tags : Article , India , China , ASEAN , Code of Conduct , Nine Dash Line , PCA
History It was 1916, and the World War I was not going too well for the imperial powers Britain and France. These powers then started thinking in two directions – one, by weakening the adversary - the Central Powers comprising of the G....
Tags : Article , Palestine crisis , Hamas violence , Israel’s retaliation in Gaza , belligerence in West Asia , India-West Asia , Palestine politics
The Group of Twenty (G20) is a global platform for the world's largest economies to discuss and coordinate global economic and financial policies. The African Union (AU) offers the continent a legal and institutional framework to combat post-cold War....
Tags : Article , G20 , Agenda 2063 , AU , African agency , Pan Africanism
Today’s security environment is utterly unpredictable, the world saw three black swan events in as many years –Covid19, Russia-Ukraine War and more recently Israel-Hamas War! In 2023 itself threats originated from state and non-state aggressors, ....
Tags : Article , India , Pakistan , China , economic interdependence , resilience
धर्मं चर। धर्मान्न प्रमदितव्यम्। - तैत्तिरीय उपनिषद् 1.11 [English Translation: Practice righteousness (Dharma). Do not swerve from....
Tags : Article , India , Pakistan , Referendum , Terrorism , Punjab , LeT , Canada , Bharat , Khalistan , Khalistani , Nijjar
Since their inception, humans have been interested in knowing about the adversary. Examples abound in history. The blind king’s desire to know events in Kurukshetra; Moses tasking his 12 spies before sending them to Canaan; Trojan Horse; the first ....
Tags : Article , Israel , Gaza , Hamas , Intelligence failure
The surprise and audacious attack by Hamas on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 Oct 23 has drawn parallels with the 9/11 terror attacks on United States in terms of surprise, shock action and casualties. Several media & state reports have even compare....
Cambodia’s cosiness with China is a matter of worry for the ASEAN grouping. Cambodia pursued a pro-China policy during the outgoing rule of Hun Sen, one of the world’s longest-serving Prime Ministers and who announced his relinquishment of the to....
Tags : Article , ASEAN , Maritime Security , ASEAN Centrality , BRI , Digital economy , Malacca Strait , Ream Naval Base , naval drill idea , CRCC
The Nepalese nationals suffered unprecedented casualties during the recent surprise attack by the Islamist Hamas group of Palestine on the soil of Israel on October 7. Never before had there been so many ....
Tags : Commentary , Nepal , Gaza Strip , Nepalese causalities , Israel-Hamas conflict