Apr 08, 2023 The recent China-brokered deal to restore diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia will mark the triumph of diplomacy over the military options that the US has generally resorted to in the region
Apr 16, 2022 There is no strategic interest that actually binds the quartet comprising the US, Japan, Australia and India. The Biden administration, under pressure from domestic constituencies, felt the need to ‘celebrate’ the Abraham Accords, even though they serve no US interest and have negligible resonance across West Asia.
Nov 27, 2020 How evanlegists, Saudi largesse and a visceral hatred of Iran dictated Donald Trump's noxious West Asia policy
Nov 13, 2020 The French President’s deliberate collision with what he sees as ‘Islam’ is unlikely to be good for him or for France.
Oct 29, 2020 In the post-pandemic world, a new regional and global order will emerge from this nascent alliance.
Oct 15, 2020 President Erdogan has drawn on two of Turkey’s earlier, mutually-reinforcing traditions – Islam and the Ottomanism, to shape his vision of 'Islam’s last fortress.'
Oct 07, 2020 After becoming Crown Prince in June 2017, MBS first cracked down in September 2017 on dissident clerics, academics, writers and human rights activists, followed by the detention of a few hundred prominent royal family members and businessmen on charges of corruption.
Oct 01, 2020 Amidst several electoral setbacks, the US president pursues fresh sanctions on Iran.
Mar 19, 2020 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has complicated his country’s politics and economics by engineering two crises – the arrests of royal family members and initiation of an oil-price war with Russia.
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May 01, 2019 Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative is irreversible, says this book as it scrutinises its geo-political fall-out, but also that China should address legitimate concerns
Feb 06, 2019 From that dawn in November, 1979, that would set into motion a se ries of cataclysms in West Asia and, eventually, the world, changing geopolitics forever
Sep 13, 2018 Taxes on oil provide for the state. Rise in global crude prices will have to be sat out.
Aug 22, 2018 Hamid Ansari dares to point at the noisome rot: intolerance and illiberal discourse. The solution is to heed Ambedkar and safeguard India’s constitutional values.
Mar 22, 2018 The 39 Indian workers were killed when ISIS had reached a peak of brutality and had no intention of negotiating, unlike earlier hostage situations
Feb 12, 2018 All the leaders he met have sought a greater Indian role in promoting security in the region. Neither has any details been spelt out nor is there any indication of an Indian initiative.
Dec 14, 2017 The ancient stones of Jerusalem have seen flux for 3,500 years, in tandem with shifting ties amongst Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Trump’s loud call is just another turn.
Nov 09, 2017 Mohammed bin Salman’s brutal power grab tramples tradition and pushes Saudi Arabia towards the abyss
Oct 25, 2017 The Six-Day War split and recast power centres in West Asia, shaped jehadism, consigned Palestinians to a harrowing fate and deepened Israel’s self-justificatory, racist paranoia
Oct 16, 2017 In a joint statement, the leaders of Britain, France, and Germany have said that “preserving the agreement is in our shared national security interest.”
Oct 04, 2017 'It should be noted that the crude being imported from the US is not shale oil, which is sweet and light and expensive, but conventional sour, moderate sulphur crude, Mars and Poseidon, that is similar to crudes imported by Indian refineries from Gulf sources.'
Sep 28, 2017 The Kurds number about 30 million in the four countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and are perhaps the world’s largest ethnic group without a state of its own
Sep 15, 2017 Except on our ties with West Asia and jehadi terror, Saran’s lucid account correctly details our national interests, with an advocacy of a multi-polar world
Jun 25, 2017 Developments during the last month have significantly changed the security scenario across West Asia and portend a prolonged period of competition and conflict in a thoroughly transformed regional order.