Pope visits Myanmar
Pope Francis is currently visiting Myanmar making him the first Pope to ever visit the southeast Asian nation. It remains…
Yemen’s humanitarian crisis
Nearly three weeks after a Saudi Arabia led blockade cut off humanitarian aid to Yemen, about 25,000 tonnes of wheat…
Syria on balance
A UK-based monitoring group called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has claimed that at least 53 civilians have been…
The grand strategy
With the advent of technology and the expansion of the internet, there are heightened threats to national security of nation-states…
Reimagining Afghanistan
Russia’s recent diplomatic intervention in Afghanistan elicits old categorizations of a ‘New Great Gamer’ in the making among traditional rivals…
India & the triangular actors
India, China and Russia have emerged as three nations whose geopolitical strengths are to be reckoned with in the global…
Asymmetric conflicts
Inequality in arms, indeed, significant disparity between belligerents, has become a prominent feature of various contemporary armed conflicts. Such asymmetries,…
Reimagining intelligence
The intelligence community has often been blamed for its failure to forecast critical world events from the fall of the…
OBOR & the emerging world order
China’s multi-billion-dollar project One Belt, One Road (OBOR) infrastructure development project is a manifestation of the nation’s ambition. Experts and…
Tencent on top
China-based company, Tencent Holding, has officially surpassed Facebook in terms of market value. The company has now crossed $500 billion…