1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
No one thought that Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel would lead to the horizontal expansion of a war. The West Asian geopolitical architecture stands on cosmic stories. Palestine has been
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International relations scholarship has long studied what is known as diversionary theory, or the “scapegoat hypothesis”, the proposition that political leaders facing internal legitimacy crises, economic strain, or social fragmentation have a
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The forgotten glory of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War still beckons the nation to reclaim its founding ideals, unity, courage, and destiny. But Bangladesh has, since 5 August 2024, been unlawfully brought under
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For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been treated as a narrow stretch of water with outsized geopolitical importance. Yet the latest regional security shocks have exposed a deeper reality. Hormuz is
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Vast numbers of angry Albanians have been protesting across their Balkan nation for the past 38 nights. They are enraged by the Trumps’ commercial empire trying to grab the very last undeveloped
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There are figures in history who become larger after their death than they ever were in life. Burhan Muzaffar Wani is one of them. On July 8, 2016, Indian security forces killed
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Islamabad has just set a new record. For the 2026-27 fiscal year, Pakistan’s defence allocation has crossed Rs 3 trillion for the first time, roughly $10.8 billion, and the single sharpest jump
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Around one-fifth of the world’s oil consumption passes through the Strait of Hormuz, making it the most strategically important maritime chokepoint on the planet. For decades, its significance has rested on a
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In a significant escalation of international law enforcement efforts, on July 7, 2026, the United States (US) Department of Justice unsealed three federal grand jury indictments, charging a total of 37 defendants
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There are moments when a nation’s resolve is tested not by what it says, but by what it is willing to endure and still stand firm. The events of the past four
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