Sri Lanka’s future prosperity will depend on how effectively it positions itself within an increasingly complex and uncertain global environment. At a recent LEADS Forum discussion, veteran diplomat Prasad Kariyawasam, former Secretary
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office four years after leaving power following his defeat to Joe Biden and the political fallout from the January 6, 2021, attack
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More than three years after Western governments expelled hundreds of Russian intelligence officers and imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine, Russian espionage networks have adapted and found new
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European Union foreign ministers are set to examine whether there is sufficient support for new measures targeting trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank during a meeting on Monday, according
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On November 10, 2019, Dr. Ursula von der Leyen, the president-elect of the European Union, made the trip from Brussels to Berlin to present me with the Axel Springer Award for The Age
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On May 24, three Bangladeshis died in landmine explosions near Naikhongchhari in Bandarban , farmers and residents killed by a war that is not theirs. Fishermen have been abducted on the Naf
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The possibility that Afghanistan could once again emerge as a major hub for transnational jihad carries implications well beyond South Asia. A renewed concentration of experienced foreign militants would reshape the security
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“Our Opposition Leader is like the sacred crow’s Bo tree. You can’t cut it down because people worship it, yet you can’t leave it alone because crows keep roosting on it.” J.R.P.
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Japan’s newest export industry does not leave factories on cargo ships. It arrives by plane, fills hotels, spends in restaurants and shops, and is reshaping the country’s economic strategy. After decades of
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Ten years ago, Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran made a phone call she never expected to make. Speaking to her mother from Zagreb, she delivered a sentence that many migrants fear
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The war involving Iran has created a chain of consequences extending far beyond the Middle East, with African countries increasingly absorbing the economic and security fallout from disruptions to global energy flows
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On a summer afternoon in the northern West Bank village of Burin, the sky above a sun-baked hillside fills with bright colours. Children run across the open ground, pulling strings attached to
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In early July 2026, a major controversy erupted in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) when books supplied to government school libraries under the centrally sponsored Samagra Shiksha scheme were found to contain content glorifying convicted
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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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