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Shyam Saran, a former Indian Foreign Secretary and diplomat, has held prominent roles in India's foreign policy and international relations.
The Trump administration has announced a doubling of tariffs on India to 50 per cent, with a 21 day window for further negotiations over its trade with Russia. President Donald Trump has also ruled ...
The Lowy Institute’s Global Diplomacy Index offers a comprehensive comparison of the world’s most significant diplomatic networks across five years – 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023. Explore the ...
In the contemporary international discourse, the term “geopolitics” is everywhere. From the “geopolitics of semiconductors” to the “geopolitics of climate change”, and for issues ranging from the ...
First, this new treaty relies on the United States doing the heavy lifting to make AUKUS happen for the next 20 years. The treaty is to enable the United Kingdom to proceed with designing the new ...
Khang Vu is a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at Boston College. He was a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Khang received his Ph.D ...
On his blog, Marginal Revolution, American economist Alex Tabarrok has made some unflattering comparisons between the way the US educational and scientific establishments responded to the Soviet ...
Post-election, Ishiba Shigeru continues to appear on television screens as the incumbent Prime Minister of Japan. The sheen of perspiration on his brow is not just the heat of this extraordinarily hot ...
The Dalai Lama’s statement this month that his successor would be selected by the traditional process of reincarnation has heartened the millions of followers around the world celebrating his 90th ...
In the past few days, the US president issued another ultimatum to the warring parties in Ukraine, although this time, Donald Trump focussed his ire on Russia. Apparently sick of seeing Russia’s ...
Passing through Immigration and Customs at Narita Airport outside Tokyo on Sunday night was the quickest it has been for a few years. The usual winding lines of tired travellers were non-existent as I ...