75 years of the UN: its triumphs and disasters
The United Nations has shaped so much of global [...]
The 5-4-3-2 of USA’s Geopolitiking.
News: China has accused the U.S. of “stoking geopolitical rivalry” by “forming exclusive clubs”. By “strengthening the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and “peddling the Quad, piecing together AUKUS and tightening bilateral military alliances”, the U.S. was leading what the Chinese called a “five-four-three-two” formation in the region. [...]
Great Game in Central Asia.
Backgound:- The third India-Central Asia Dialogue convened by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday is one in a series of timely connections to the region by New Delhi this year, spurred in some measure by events in Afghanistan. The dialogue has been held a month before leaders of all [...]
[IR] OPEC vs USA, India, UK, China, Japan & South Korea
The United States may have just started another war that it cannot win. This time it is in the oil market, the foe is the powerful OPEC+ cartel and the prize is lower oil prices. […]
Understanding the Taliban for what it is
A realistic assessment of the circumstances in which it has to operate should have induced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to follow a moderate course. Instead, it has sent out unmistakable signs of a preference for extremism. A peculiar state of mind is almost certainly in play, but to ascribe [...]
Fall of Kabul: On Afghanistan crisis
Key Points:- History came full circle on August 15 when the Taliban captured Kabul, almost 20 years after the U.S. launched its global war on terror. […]
[IR] Afghanistan, Taliban and USA’s Stealth Mid-night Exit
Syllabus Connect :- GS III (Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism) Context:- The withdrawal of United States troops from the Bagram military base, its biggest military base in Afghanistan, by stealth at night in early July without keeping the Afghan authorities in the [...]
[Geopolitics] India and China Border Dispute
The British organised a conference in Shimla in 1914, which the representatives of China and Tibet attended. The conference’s objective was to negotiate a treaty that would demarcate the border between Tibet and British-ruled India. The British plan was to put pressure on the weak Chinese central government to grant [...]
[IR] G-7’s counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
G-7 leaders finally came around with the proposed Build Back Better World (B3W) to counter China’s rising influence across 100-plus countries through Belt Road Initiative (BRI) projects. The proposal, though at a nascent stage, aims to address the infrastructure investment deficit in developing and lower income countries — the space [...]
India-China relations, a year after Galwan
In June 2020, PLA troops “surprised” India in the Ladakh sector of the contested LoAC (line of actual control) where the Indian Army lost 20 lives, including that of Colonel Santosh Babu in the Galwan valley. […]