The renewed ambition to acquire Greenland reflects an intriguing blend of geopolitics, national aspiration, and economic strategy. Championed now by US President-elect Donald Trump, this idea has resurfaced with remarkable seriousness, raising questions about sovereignty, international relations, and global security.
The world was already in the VUCA phase with a lot of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. The war in Ukraine that started in the year 2022 added to these upheavals and impacted worldwide trade especially bringing volatile shifts in the food commodity market.
As the world enters 2025, former U.S. President Donald Trump, now preparing for his second term, has reignited the flames of territorial ambition with rhetoric that harks back to America’s imperial past.
The prevalence of misogyny in Indian politics reflects a troubling reality that undermines the progress of women in public life.
India's economic trajectory, once celebrated for its resilience and rapid growth, is now encountering significant headwinds.
In the previous centuries, dominance on earth was decided by controlling the sea routes. Airpower was added in the last century and in this century, it would likely be space power, for which the ability to place military assets in space - especially in Low Earth Orbit - will become the determining factor. Whoever controls the LEO will become a gatekeeper.
Nepal is a diverse country with more than a hundred ethnic and language communities. For a long time, its unitary and centralised system of governance was unable to address the concerns of these diverse communities.
Over the past few weeks, the armed anti-Taliban resistance has picked up momentum in northern Afghanistan.
With a combined population inching towards 700 million, ASEAN’s 10 member-states together form the world’s fifth-largest economy with a GDP of $3.2 trillion.
The current widespread murderous violence in Sri Lanka underscores beyond all doubt, the potency of ‘the agony of the stomach’ in the shaping of a country’s politics.
