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In a 2024 article, Navigating New Realities: Central Asia’s Role in Contemporary Geopolitics, my co-authors and I argued that the Central Asia…

Contemporary debates on Indo-Pacific security often begin with an implicit assumption: that credible deterrence necessitates a formal alliance structure—either a bilateral one…

The conflict between the United States and Israel against Iran continues. The Iranian regime, despite the substantial damage it has sustained, is…

Public acceptance and tolerance of refugees have become increasingly politicised across the Western world, with refugees often portrayed as a threat to…

The history of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a faith-based international body founded in 1969 in Rabat, Morocco, is intimately intertwined…

For much of the post-Cold War era, globalisation was presented not merely as a trajectory but as a universal pathway, one that…

In March 2026, the trial of former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China—the group…

The widening U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran is usually narrated as a Middle Eastern crisis. That is true, but strategically incomplete. Since the…

Analyses of the April 7, 2026 “Cheng–Xi meeting” risk falling into a conceptual blind spot: interpreting the encounter between the two party…

In September 2024, The New York Times published an op-ed by Raj M. Shah and Christopher M. Kirchhoff. They argued that the…