The year 2021 marked two decades since the term "BRICS" was first used by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in the early 2000s to refer to the four rapidly developing nations that appeared most likely to start catching up to the We...
The IPEF was launched on May 23, 2022 jointly by US and other countries of Indo Pacific region. It was initially composed of 14 founding member nations. Fiji was the first South Pacific Island nation to join the group. The invitation to oth...
The United States and a large portion of the rest of the world have regarded Asia too crudely for centuries—as a theatre of strategic rivalry. Allies and partners of the United States from all over the world have an interest in how the Indo...
The article identifies the role of natural gas in fuelling the recent and previous conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. The research tries to make a point by analysing the past events involving Russia and Ukraine since the inception o...
At the 2021 year-end Plenary Meeting, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his desire to improve people's lives by focusing over nukes. The speech came against the backdrop of severe economic crises and food shortages faced by Nort...
The Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory sparked a flurry of heated debates within and among the International Politics intelligentsia, but a large number of scholars agree that Russian belligerence arose in response to the West's unwill...
New Caledonia is small Island situated in the Pacific Ocean. With a population of 271,407, it has been under French rule since 1853. Indigenously populated by Kanaks which have now been reduced to a minority. New Caledonia has been fighting...
For centuries, technological revolutions in weapons have changed the nature of warfare, affecting the balance of power and strategic stability. However, a majority of public reports around hypersonic glide vehicles are deceptive. They are n...
The Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed by USSR & China in 1950 bound two states to assist each other militarily in case of an attack by Japan or any other state aiding Japan in aggression (Nandan and Uma, 2015)....
China has been investing in Asia and Africa so as to further its trade and investment prospects under BRI, and one of the means that it has adopted in Africa is to develop ports and associated infrastructure. This is meant to harness resour...
In the past decade, Bangladesh has emerged as an important player in China's political expansion strategy. Military cooperation between the two states in form of arms supply and construction of military infrastructure has increased in past ...
As tensions escalate across the Indo-Pacific, the United States has seemingly initiated a renewed power plan for the region. Today, a majority of the tensions are concentrated around the South China Sea, where the US, China, Vietnam and the...
