International Relations and Policy – Page 10

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor – A Game-changer for Pakistan or a Project Doomed to Fail?

Given the numerous benefits expected from the megaproject, CPEC, which has been regarded as a “game-changer” for Pakistan and a “corridor that must not fail” for China, it is critical to assess the situation on the ground before making any unrealistic claims about what CPEC can bring about.
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Pakistan’s Increasingly Strained Relations with the West

Pakistan’s ties with the US have witnessed a downward slope as a result of its increasing proximity to China in recent years. Pakistan PM, Imran Khan’s decision to visit the US amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and its decision to not support a US-sponsored resolution against Russia for its aggression vis-à-vis Ukraine have led to a…
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Why US Sanctions Work

An unhyphenated account of how US sanctions came to dominate the international financial order. It touches upon the contingencies that culminated in the concentration of the international political economy around the US and its allies: a major pain point for those lying outside the West’s grace.
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Qatar-Iran Relations and the Changing Landscape of the Middle East

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to Qatar was important for a number of reasons. It was the first visit to a Gulf country by Raisi, at a time when negotiations related to revival of the Iran Nuclear deal were going on, and days before Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.
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Towards De-exceptionalizing the Middle East: Navigating Between Theory and History

What is the history of a place? What happens when that history comes into contact with the forces of modernity? The answer to all these questions comprehensively lie in the increased exceptionalization of that place.
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Threat Perception Posed By Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan On Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations

In this article, the author tries to delve into the historical significance of TTP and how it is raising tensions for Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations.
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Paradiplomacy in the Indian Context: The Opportunities and Challenges

The recent UAE visit of Kerala Chief Minister, Pinari Vijayan highlights the growing importance of India’s states in foreign policy – due to a variety of factors – economic and non economic.
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The 1947-1948 India-Pakistan war: What do we see today?

Relations hitched with barbs, India and Pakistan continue to struggle with questions that emerged over 75 years ago. The article aims to deconstruct and understand this seemingly stagnant parley from a vantage point, seeking to evaluate the spillovers of the conflict today.
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How Web 3.0 will change International Relations

The future of the study of international relations will have to catch up with the steady rise of Web 3.0 going forward. As Web 3.0 recognizes no borders, the implications for international society and the relevance of the present state-centric world order shall be colossal.
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The Macro View on Why the USA Ultimately Lost Afghanistan

At the end of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Washington torn between Democrats and Republicans frantically began finger-pointing. This article takes a macro, retrospective view. It vouches that the Afghanistan failure is rooted in a more central American tendency. Throughout the article, that tendency is defined and explored.
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Aesthetics in International Relations: Reportage, Colonialism, and Modernity

This article aims to explore the idea of aesthetics in International Relations. It seeks to find an answer to explain the dominance of Western aesthetics in contemporary discourses through colonialism and highlights the all-pervasiveness of this aesthetic even in non-western contexts.
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The Changing Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific

This article looks at the Indo-Pacific with a critical lens. It seeks to answer why the Indo-Pacific is a region of great importance in the arena of international affairs today, and examines the nature of recent military developments with a tangential focus on the changing role of the state actors in the economic and strategic…
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