Decoding The Logic Behind The U.S. Draft National Defence Strategy By Andrew Korybko Policymakers are preparing for the worst-case scenario from their perspective, the US’ expulsion from the Eastern Hemisphere, hence their new goal of urgently achieving strategic autarky in the… Read More ›
Water Wars: How India-Pakistan River Politics Threaten Regional Stability By Uriel Araujo Tensions between India and Pakistan are rising amid accusations of water weaponization after floods displaced 1.8 million people. Control of the Indus River has long been a geopolitical fault… Read More ›
The Establishment Of Armenian-Pakistani Diplomatic Ties Is Part Of A Larger Powerplay By Andrew Korybko It’s about turbocharging the emerging Turkish-Azeri-Pak bloc by giving Islamabad access to TRIPP for facilitating trade with Turkiye and Europe in order to consolidate this bloc’s… Read More ›
The ‘Power Of Siberia 2’ Pipeline Deal Signifies The Failure Of Trump’s Eurasian Grand Strategy By Andrew Korybko Trump’s escalatory signals in Ukraine, the Indo-US split that he induced, and the attendant alleviation of the Sino-Indo security dilemma freed Russia up… Read More ›
The SCO And BRICS Play Complementary Roles In Gradually Transforming Global Governance By Andrew Korybko The processes that are unfolding will take a lot of time to complete, perhaps even a generation or longer, so expectations of a swift transition to… Read More ›
SCO Issues Delayed Condemnation of Pahalgam Attack Amid Sino-Indian Rapprochement By Andrew Korybko The recent Sino-Indo rapprochement, which was inadvertently brought about by the US, accounts for why this year’s Chinese host agreed to include this in the Tianjin Declaration unlike… Read More ›
Indo-Pakistani Rivalry Reshaping Global Geopolitics: A Conflict Neither Local Nor Over By Uriel Araujo The long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan is not confined to South Asia. The rivalry is entangling the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Eurasian alliances — posing… Read More ›
Why Couldn’t The SCO Defence Ministers Agree On A Joint Statement? By Andrew Korybko India refused to sign the document since it didn’t condemn late April’s Pahalgam terrorist attack. India found itself at odds with the SCO once again less than… Read More ›
Did The SCO Keep India Out Of The Loop When Issuing Its Statement Condemning Israel? By Andrew Korybko Western-friendly policy influencers and policymakers in India might now feel vindicated after claiming for a while already that the group no longer… Read More ›
ISKP’s War On Baloch Separatists Deepens Pakistan’s Multi-Front Crisis By Uriel Araujo The Islamic State Khorasan Province’s (ISKP) declaration of war against Baloch separatists intensifies Pakistan’s volatile conflict landscape, intertwining religious extremism with ethnopolitical strife. This escalation, amid ongoing Indo-Pakistan tensions,… Read More ›