Central Asia

Recently the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean Noel Barrot, while meeting the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar, made an interesting observation that France was heading …

Introduction The South Caucasus – comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia – is a small but geopolitically significant region, susceptible to intense competition between regional and global powers. It is also …

It is a foreign policy scenario that is totally different from what the Trump administration has been witnessing in the last four months. It has nothing to do with chasing …

“War has a momentum of its own… you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.” — George F. Kennan   Over a city starved of …

America’s volatile foreign policy is forcing India to revisit its own priorities. Domestically, the Modi government seems intent to move faster on domestic reforms to buttress growth that is ordinarily fueled by commercial ties …

US Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham said that US tariffs on India are the “chief reason,” India has reduced its purchases of Russian oil, linking the policy to Washington’s …

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a new economic assistance package for war-torn Ukraine during a brief meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a Halifax-area airport, it triggered a …

Sometimes, life delivers a humbling reset. Last week, I traveled eight hours north from Colombo to Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with The HALO Trust, the world’s largest humanitarian demining organization. What …

Sixty-odd decades ago, it was Cuba, a missile crisis, and a potential nuclear showdown with the then Soviet Union. The United States, under the John Kennedy administration, would have no …