Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last recourse pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready…

“Afghanistan is more than just a ‘graveyard of empires’. It is a mother of vicious circles” is what Maureen Dowd, the renowned columnist for the New York Times wrote about…

Covering around 3,500,000 square kilometers of area positioned between the Straits of Karimata and Malaca to the Straits of Taiwan; the South China Sea has been irrepressible to maritime security…

When a redeemed (neoconservative), termed John Bolton, in perhaps a more eloquent arraignment of neoconservative ideology than one expects coming out of Fox, a ‘bureaucratic tapeworm’, it might have been…

We live in a world that is changing, and changing fast. There is hardly any aspect rooted in permanence. The world order is in constant flux; and subsequent changes are…

Published in 2014, Henry Kissinger, in his book titled ‘World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History’ wrote that ‘the United States (US) if separated…

The values of globalization, multilateralism and free trade have been the sine qua non of the United States’ (US) policies since the introduction of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points. The materialization…

An average benign thought would defy the possibility of war between a United States (US) — who has seemingly failed to sustain a stable government in Afghanistan or Iraq, has…

When Doha hosted the first meeting of the Libya Contact Group (LCG) in April 2011, the then British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague, co-chairing the…

As ambiguous the notion of ‘good order at sea’ is, it is even less universally applicable as has been envisioned by global governance regimes. Inconsistencies in conflict resolution narratives across…