Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes’s Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy presents itself as a work of strategic diagnosis, yet it is as
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The story begins with a promise of opportunity and ends in abandonment thousands of miles from home. In September 1969, a group of young Palestinian men from Gaza boarded a plane believing
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A new assessment linked to The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies has delivered a stark warning about the evolving nature of modern warfare, arguing that the first weeks
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Iran has mobilized more than one million combatants in preparation for a potential ground invasion by United States forces, marking a dramatic escalation in an already volatile regional conflict. The announcement comes
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A Venezuelan delegation has arrived in Washington, D.C., marking a significant step toward restoring relations between Venezuela and United States at a time of deep political uncertainty in Caracas. Sent by acting
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Former US President Ronald Reagan, in 1977, following J. R. Jayewardene assuming office, sent his special envoy, Vernon Walters, to Sri Lanka. Indian media described his visit as “U.S. digs deeper into
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Sri Lanka’s position in the Indian Ocean has long been described as strategic. Yet, the true test of a nation is not in possessing geographic advantage, but in how effectively it translates
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United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago. Yet, for them, Nicaragua
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Pakistan once again engages in a pointless spectacle that emphasises nuisance over substance. The propaganda-driven diplomacy aimed at preserving its declining strategic importance and handling backlash is nothing new. The current instance
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For 48 hours, the global economy teetered on the edge of a “quagmire.” With Brent crude hitting $119 and a U.S. ultimatum for the “obliteration” of Iranian energy infrastructure ticking toward zero,
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The latest escalation in the Middle East has brought global energy markets back to a familiar point of strain: the vulnerability of supply routes concentrated in a handful of geopolitical chokepoints. At
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In a time when oil prices are soaring to frightening levels all over the world and supply chains are stretched to the breaking point, the ongoing conflict with Iran has played out
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