India's engagement with Central Asia has increased in the last decade. India has emerged as one of the leading countries in the world - both economically and strategically. As a part of its strategic cooperation, the five Central Asian coun...
On 31st of July 2018 the media wing of ISIS, Amaq, issued a video. The video featured the killers of four foreign cyclists (two from the United States, one Dutch, and one a Swiss citizen killed in Southern Tajikistan) taking the responsibil...
Central Asia has always remained a great strategic battlefield among various regional and international powers. From antiquity to the contemporary period the Central Asian Region has always found itself at the core of the international affa...
President Biden’s announcement to withdraw the US troops comes at a time when an imminent threat of a military takeover has made Kabul helpless and vulnerable. The US foreign policy in the war-torn state had comprised of security as well as...
The recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has drawn attention back to the politics in Central Asia. An informal summit was conducted at the end of March this year that was attended by the leaders of member states in the Turkic Council. Two ma...
US President Joe Biden announced his decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by 11th September this year. The date would mark 20 years since 9/11, which was the deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. The Islami...
Oliver Roy, one of the leading French political scientists who worked extensively on "a different view of radical Islam", distinguishes Islamism and neo-fundamentalism. While differentiating these two tendencies, he defines that the former ...
For centuries, it was the ancient ‘Silk Road’ which linked the economy and culture of the east and west civilization via central Asia. A wide array of goods was passed, connecting China and Europe through the effective functioning of the Si...
Ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the region of Central Asia has emerged as an intriguing field of politics, religion and security. The establishment of these newly formed republics was not only challenged by the Soviet U...
In the 21st century, where the world is highly globalised and technological progress has become a vital component of politics all levels, energy needs of all the countries across the globe has increased. Given the growing deterioration of t...
International infrastructure projects are not new in the international politics. They have become pivotal in shaping the foreign policies of the states in various sectors of cooperation, both bilaterally and multilaterally. It also promotes...
Energy infrastructure has garnered its own place in the international politics discourse. South Asia over the years has become a fertile ground for several hydropower and gas projects. With this, it has brought new conflicts in limelight an...
