Seven Misunderstandings About Russia That Risk Ruining Its Ties With Pakistan By Andrew Korybko At this sensitive moment in Russian-Pakistani relations, diplomatic and expert dialogue is urgently required, not more social media hysteria. False perceptions, uninformed assumptions, and even blatant lies… Read More ›
Russia Faces Three Strategic Challenges That It Can’t Afford To Ignore By Andrew Korybko The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign… Read More ›
From Non-Alignment To Multi-Alignment: How The Global South Is Navigating The New Cold War By Andrew Korybko Multi-alignment’s pragmatism has been demonstrated by China, which is the US’ systemic rival, but even it doesn’t actively oppose the West like Russia does… Read More ›
From Hormuz To Malacca: How The Iran War Is Reshaping The Indian Ocean By Uriel Araujo The crisis around the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran war is not confined to the Persian Gulf, as its impacts extend into the Indian… Read More ›
Yasin Malik And Kashmir’s Crisis Of Conscience By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai There are moments in the life of a nation when politics must give way to conscience. For Kashmir, this is one of those moments. Throughout history, countless leaders… Read More ›
Russia Courts BRICS To Break NATO’s Arctic Containment By Andrew Korybko Russia’s overarching strategy appears to be to encourage the largest number of countries to obtain stakes in the Arctic’s energy, transport, and logistics projects so as to incentivize them to… Read More ›
BRICS Is Challenging Dollar Dominance Without Needing A Common Currency By Uriel Araujo BRICS countries are connecting their payment systems and expanding local-currency settlement. Brazil’s Pix, CBDCs and Iran’s proposed BRICS financial corridors could thus gradually reduce the need for dollar-mediated… Read More ›
A Five-Step Plan For Implementing The Indonesian-Russian Strategic Partnership By Andrew Korybko The vision is for Indonesia to follow India’s lead in balancing between China and the US via increased reliance on Russia. Russia and Indonesia agreed to enter into a strategic partnership… Read More ›
Foreign Affairs Is Right: The Old Model Of Nuclear Deterrence Is No More By Andrew Korybko The Ukrainian Conflict, the West Asian Wars, and spring 2025’s Indo-Pak clashes upended the past nearly 80 years’ worth of presumptions about strategic security with… Read More ›
Putin’s Defence Of Pakistan Was About More Than China By Andrew Korybko It was entirely factual but driven by diplomatic interests as regards their rapid rapprochement. Putin was asked in early June by an Indian journalist during his meeting with the… Read More ›