Will the United States Contain Russia or China, or Both?
Beijing also moved to enhance its economic cooperation with South Korea, Japan, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Quad and Japanese Nationalism: The Genie Is out of the Bottle
Created in 2007, it is an ongoing informal dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.
Coffee Extinction Is Nature’s Way of Telling Us: “Heal the World!”
Read: Can Farmers Push India towards a Just Land System?Others call for the key role of greater transparency in paying farmers, with some companies even mentioning the price they paid the farmer for the coffee clearly on the package.
The Great Reconfiguration of Global Supply Chains
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Vaccine Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Bargaining
VIDEO: How Covid vaccine diplomacy is helping India win back its neighborhoodsThe U.
An Axis of Evil: Why Russia and China Protect Myanmar’s Military Regime
Geostrategically, Russia has few allies in Asia as India, its former ally, is now increasingly tied to the United States via the Indo-Pacific (military) alliance known as The Quad, or the US-led Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, an informal strategic alliance of USA, Japan, India and Australia Therefore, protecting the Myanmar military unconditionally is protecting both Moscow’s pocket and its strategic toehold in mainland Southeast Asia.
Russia in the Middle East: From Arms to Mercenaries
Read: Russia’s Changing Relationship with India: Arms TalkSuch tactics tend to be typical of non-state actors which do not have the means to secure themselves.
Diplomatic Expulsion: Resurgence of A Cold-War Era Norm?
While diplomatic expulsion is not necessarily a new norm in international relations, expelling diplomats for solidarity’s sake is growing fast.
An Insider Perspective on the Afghanistan Peace Talks
Colm Quinn, a foreign policy journalist, rightly reports that the letter indicates three ways for future endeavors to bring peace to Afghanistan: to “move matters more fundamentally and quickly” towards peace, holding ministerial-level talks between representatives from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, and India together with the United States to discuss a “unified approach”; a senior-level meeting between the Taliban and the Afghan government hosted by Turkey to take place “in the coming weeks”; and a proposal to implement a 90-day reduction in violence intended to prevent a spring offensive by the Taliban.
Diverging Views on the Military’s Interference in Pakistani Politics
Pakistan is surrounded by its adversaries, and in particular India, so security is an inevitable part of Pakistan's foreign policy.
Pushing the Liberalist Agenda to its Limits: The Problem of Labels
Read: Hindutva Ideology: India’s Gradual Move Towards GenocideAnd rightly so.
China-Iran Treaty: Hydrocarbons Bring the Old Friends Closer
This project too was years in the making and was built on the long-established political and military ties between Beijing and Islamabad which were forged to counter the dominance of India.
How the Cross-Border Tribes Living between Afghanistan and Pakistan Impact Regional Politics
Elisabeth Leake, Associate Professor of International History at the University of Leeds, claims that its prominence to British colonial officials made sense in light of their perception of colonial India as the “Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire, their sensitivity to czarist Russian interventionism in the Great Game, and their conviction that the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and neighboring tribal areas should serve as a buffer against any foreign encroachment.
The Afghan Factor in Biden’s Iran Foreign Policy
Interestingly, Blinken called for the foreign ministers and envoys from Iran plus a number of other countries (China, India, Pakistan, and Russia) to join the US in discussing a “unified approach to supporting peace in Afghanistan”.
How Djibouti Surrounded Itself by Military Bases
Russia and India too have strong interests in setting up military bases there.
Myanmar’s Once Nationalist Military Has Just Lost the Nation
It has burned entire ethnic minority villages, forcibly relocated villagers into controllable areas, or simply violently deported them across the borders into neighboring Thailand, India, or China.
The Ethnically Diverse Biden Administration Makes White Supremacists Angry
Harris is the daughter of an immigrant family and is of African American and South Asian descent, with a Jamaican father and an Indian mother.
Iran’s Accession to the Eurasian Union Will Benefit Russia and Kazakhstan
For Russia, Iran’s trump card is probably its sea, namely the Indian Ocean.
Radicalization and Religion: How It Happens?
The ongoing radicalization of Buddhism in Myanmar or Hinduism in India are highlighting that shift to radicalism that can affect all traditions, not to mention the rise of global Orthodoxy that pursues international projects in contradiction with the international order.
How Does China View the Muslim World?
At first, the lands of Islam were supposed to create a bridge spreading Chinese power into Europe, the Indian Ocean, and Africa.
