Japan And The Philippines Aim To Provoke A New Asian Arms Race At America’s Behest By Andrew Korybko Arms races are always a bonanza for the military-industrial complex, which exerts outsized influence over US policymaking, but there might be more to… Read More ›
Eurasian Connectivity Was At The Top Of The Agenda During Putin’s Trip To Azerbaijan By Andrew Korybko The lasting outcome of his talks with Aliyev inordinately depends on the future of Azerbaijani-Iranian relations and to a lesser extent on Azerbaijani-Indian ones… Read More ›
The Latest Unrest In Gwadar Imperils Pakistan’s Eurasian Connectivity Plans By Andrew Korybko Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics are more inclined to focus their exports on Iran’s North-South Transport Corridor instead of Pakistan’s CPEC so long as the Baloch Conflict… Read More ›
Worsening Iranian-Pakistani Tensions Could Threaten Eurasian Integration Processes By Andrew Korybko Unless there’s an all-out conventional war between Iran and Pakistan, which isn’t expected unless their newly exacerbated but long-running security dilemma spirals out of control into one by miscalculation (perhaps… Read More ›
Russia’s Top Asian Policymaker Shared Updates About The Greater Eurasian Partnership By Andrew Korybko The Eurasian Economic Union’s dual pairings with BRI and the NSTC will unleash the supercontinent’s full economic potential with time in a way that also crucially maintains… Read More ›
Four Eurasian Connectivity Corridors Discussed At The Kremlin In Supreme Eurasian Economic Council’s Meeting By Andrew Korybko The four projects that were brought up are the Middle Corridor, the North-South Transport Corridor, the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan railway, and the Zangezur Corridor. Thursday didn’t… Read More ›
Iran’s Major Role In The Global Systemic Transition Makes It A Prime Hybrid War Target By Andrew Korybko Simply put, Iran has unexpectedly come to play a pivotal role in the global systemic transition to multipolarity through the means that were… Read More ›
Putin Still Hopes That Pakistan Will Continue Playing Its Role As The Zipper Of Eurasia By Andrew Korybko While Russia has reasons to wonder whether Pakistan is beginning to become an obstacle to Eurasia’s multipolar integration due to the influence exerted… Read More ›
The Global Consequences Of South Asia’s Grand Strategic Reorientation By Andrew Korybko While it remains to be seen whether Pakistan will grotesquely transform from the “Zipper of Eurasia” into the “Faultline of Eurasia” like is feared, that scenario is still credible… Read More ›
Reading Between The Lines Of SVR’s Official Response To ISIS-K’s Kabul Embassy Attack By Andrew Korybko In quick succession, a spree of three events occurred in the past six weeks that very likely contributed to Russia re-evaluating its prior assessment of… Read More ›
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