In mid-September 2022, the nine-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for its 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State. Because China, India, and Pakistan are members of the SCO, the organisation represents about 40% of the world’s population;...
Libya’s competing domestic actors are being exploited by foreign powers seeking to downplay their role in the fragile country.By John P. Ruehl / GlobetrotterAfter leading a military coup in 1969, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi cemented his rule over Libya...
Nepalilogists mull over the idea of Nepal based on the matrix of society, culture and religion. Nepal as a nation-state is not of remote origin. It dates back to the current configuration since the project of unification commenced in...
While leaving for Geneva to head the government delegation at the UNHRC session beginning this week, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has reiterated the Sri Lankan State position that it would not accept an ‘international probe’ into war-crimes, as dictated...
Photo: The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, which has six 1,000-MW units, is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Courtesy: Energoatom
Today, I have learned from IAEA staff on the site of the serious situation that developed last night at Zaporizhzhya...
A World of Worry, a World of Hope
UNDP
Flux is normal. Throughout history humans have struggled with plagues, war, and political upheaval.
Yet our present uncertain times are different in unprecedented ways. If we don’t feel that our lives are...
The Ministry of External Affairs has done the right thing by explaining its taciturn press release on Thursday in a single sentence regarding the disengagement of troops in the area of Gogra-Hotsprings along the LAC in the Western Sector...
The World Bank Group headquarters building in Washington, D.C. Photograph Source: Shiny Things – CC BY 2.0
Rick Baum
When I was a graduate student in the 1970s, a professor suggested I read Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism and do a...
Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian Knot by Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1743–1811) – Public Domain
President Joe Biden’s national security team has failed to address a major challenge, which is breaking the gordian knot that has paralyzed Sino-American relations. It’s time...
Michael Sergeyevich Gorbachev, MSB hereafter, the last president of the Soviet Union died on August 30, in Moscow. He was born on March 2 1931. President Putin of Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, paid his respects...
