Iraq Adrift
Ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq still suffers from the damage wrought in the overthrow of a dictator and the chaos that followed. Watch Here – Aljazeera
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The Flying PLA
The Pentagon’s annual report on China says that the scale of the PLAAF’s modernization is “unprecedented in history.” Read Here – The Diplomat
That Call For India As Superpower…Again
Iraq joined Syria in civil war and Ukraine’s crisis persisted this week. And yet let me argue that this week’s most important geopolitical news is the economic program of India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi. Any increase in the chances for a full-scale supply-side transformation of India’s economy is reason to cheer for many reasons. First and […]
Goodly Neighbours?
The question that everybody now is asking is this: Why this new development in China-Russia relations? Obviously, the main trigger is the recent Ukraine crisis that has seriously damaged Russia-West relations, thereby pushing Russia closer to China. However, there is also a larger strategic reason. That is, there are mutual strategic needs as both China and Russia […]
And There Goes Iraq…
The roots of the current violence go at least as far back as Iraq’s 2006-2007 civil war, which didn’t so much end as get put on hiatus. The spate of sectarian violence pitted the Shiite-majority government against Sunni militias and al-Qaeda in Iraq (a group from which ISIS emerged). The U.S. troop “surge” halted the […]
The Thin Neighbourly Line
The hoped-for peace process (between India and Pakistan) could turn to war—with huge implications for the United States—if militant actors in Pakistan attack India in hopes of provoking Modi to overreact. Something like this happened in 1999. Read Here – The National Interest
The Global Energy Conundrum
The United States is addicted to oil and China’s got a serious coal problem, Simran Khosla writes in Global Post. Read Here
Who Cares For Palestine?
This is the first time the Palestinians have followed through to form a government. It is supposed to reunite the divided territories and prepare for overdue elections after six months. Read More
Rumbles Across The Great Wall
China’s highly nationalistic new leadership may no longer simply accede to the existing international economic and security order; instead it appears to want to change that order, even if that means harming some of China’s most important trade ties. Read Here – Businessweek
So What’s Trending?
The digital revolution has profoundly impacted nearly every aspect of our lives. Despite the enormity of these changes, the Internet continues to grow and develop. Three trends are transforming the Net and challenging the digital infrastructure that supports it. Read Here – Brookings
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