The Wind-Up Presidency: Insert Praise, Watch Democracy Clap
There is a comforting myth about strongmen: that they are driven by ideology, vision, or at least a coherent plan. Donald Trump ruined that myth. His...
Editorial
India’s Long Climb to Fourth: Growth, Grit, and the Arithmetic of Endurance
India’s rise to become the world’s fourth-largest economy is less a moment of triumph than a moment of reckoning. It signals that India has crossed a...
Sapere Aude, Again: A New Year, a Quieter Kind of Courage.
Every year, humanity performs the same small, strange ritual.We gather the bruises of twelve months, tie them neatly with a ribbon called hope, and announce—often with...
Trump, Venezuela and the Limits of Pressure
The relationship between Venezuela and Donald Trump has always been less about Venezuela itself and more about how power, pressure, and spectacle are used in American...
Why the Taliban Government Is Here to Stay.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan is often described as temporary, brittle, or destined to collapse under the weight of isolation and economic failure. Yet nearly four...
The Republic Between Ballots and Barricades – How Bangladesh’s transition risks trading authoritarian stability for democratic disorder
Bangladesh is living through a moment that looks, from afar, like a political transition—but feels, from within, like a reckoning postponed too long and unleashed too...
Thailand, Cambodia and the Limits of Western Influence.
The recent tensions between Thailand and Cambodia are often presented as a small border dispute between two neighbours with a long, shared history. In reality, the...
The Taiwan Question and the Fragile Logic of Deterrence.
Few geopolitical disputes carry as much consequence — or as much quiet tension — as the question of Taiwan. It rarely dominates headlines for long, yet...
Annus Inquietus, Redux: A World Distracted, an India Becoming and The Year Gone By….
The year that has just taken its bow from the stage of history did not so much end as exhaust itself. Like a verbose dinner guest...
Green Transition as a Geoeconomic Battleground
The global green transition is no longer confined to environmental sustainability; it has emerged as a central arena of geoeconomic competition, where states deploy climate policy...