More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, questions surrounding Russia's role in the post-Soviet space continue to shape global geopolitics. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, Moscow has consistently challenged aspects...
The contemporary international system is widely described as moving toward multipolarity, driven by the rise of China, Russia’s strategic assertiveness, and the growing influence of middle powers. Yet beneath these visible shifts, the insti...
Post-Cold War arms control has increasingly unravelled, as evidenced by the collapse of key bilateral treaties like the INF and New START and the inconsistent impact of multilateral agreements such as the JCPOA. A confluence of geopolitical...
After World War II, the world was characterized as bipolar with the presence of the United States and the then-USSR. But after the Cold War, the United States became the only superpower or hegemon, and the world became unipolar. However, si...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States in 1949 to ensure “collective security” against the Soviet Union. After world war, II ended the entire world was looking at a bipolar world. Both nations were moving fa...
The purpose of this paper is to re-visit the Russia- Japan territorial conflict on the Kuril Islands. Kuril Islands dispute has been a contentious issue for both parties since the start of the Cold War. Disputed on the grounds of ownership ...
Four weeks have passed since Russia began its military invasion of Ukraine. Over the last few months in 2021, Russia was building up its military presence along the border with Ukraine in an overt response to increasing NATO expansion eastw...
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...
With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union and a wave of the coloured revolution taking over the region, states like Georgia and Ukraine establishing themselves as sovereign nations, it was hoped that the collec...
Recently Russia has moved a large number of troops near the Ukraine border. According to some US and European security officials, the current conditions doesn’t suggest an imminent invasion as Russia didn’t move the key logistics (stockpile...
The article talks about how Turkey is trying to regain authority it once held in Balkans under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire for six centuries, from the 14th century till the end of the First World War. Present day-Russia, which used to h...
