Can a Country Aspire to Great Power Status Without Investing in Knowledge?
by Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E
India’s Research and Development spending stagnates despite economic growth, with weak private investment and shallow innovation systems, raising concerns...
Is Qeshm Iran’s Hidden Missile Fortress Beneath a Tourist Paradise?
by Asad Mirza
Qeshm, once a tourist haven, is now central to Iran’s underground missile network, shaping regional conflict, threatening global oil flows, and redefining...
Was the Real-World Order Always About Money?
The realists argued about military power. The liberals debated cultural values. One man said both were looking at the wrong thing. Immanuel Wallerstein argued...
When Does the Right to Life Include the Right to Die with Dignity?
by Muazzam Khursheed
India’s Supreme Court advances euthanasia jurisprudence, recognising dignity in death by permitting withdrawal of life support, while balancing ethics, law, and constitutional...
Does America Still Have the Power to Attract, Or Has It Spent It?
Every other thinker in this series talks about hard power - armies, alliances, force. Joseph Nye asked something different. What about the power that...
How Did Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Transform Revolutionary Authority into a Durable Political Order?
by Mir Tariq Rasool
Ali Khamenei transformed uncertain revolutionary leadership into a durable Iranian political order through institutional consolidation, philosophical framing, and sustained ideological, administrative,...
The Man Who Watched Civilisation Fail: What Did He Conclude?
Before Mearsheimer, before Huntington, before Allison, there was one man who looked at the wreckage of two world wars, the Holocaust, and the collapse...
What Price Does an Oil-Dependent Economy Pay for Someone Else’s War?
by Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E
West Asia's escalating conflict is moving through global energy markets faster than diplomacy can respond. For oil-dependent economies, the...
Are America and China Destined for War?
History has a pattern that almost nobody wants to acknowledge. When a rising power challenges a ruling one, the result is war, not always,...
Is This the World Mearsheimer Always Said It Would Be?
While others built theories about the triumph of values, the spread of democracy, and the civilising power of trade, John Mearsheimer said something colder...
Are Iran’s “Mosaic Defence” and “Fourth Successor” Models Ensuring the Regime’s Survival?
by Asad Mirza
Iran’s decentralised “Mosaic Defence” strategy and layered “Fourth Successor” leadership model are designed to sustain military operations and governance despite decapitation strikes...
Why Moral Storytelling Doesn’t Make the War on Iran Necessary or Legal?
by Tamer Morris
Most legal scholars say the US-Israel strikes on Iran violated international law, but political debate has shifted from legality to claims of...
Did One Man Predict the World on Fire?
When the optimists said the world was converging, one man said it was fracturing. When the liberals said identity would dissolve into prosperity, he...
Did History End, Or Are We Watching It Begin Again?
As the world watches conflict spread across the Middle East, great power rivalries sharpen, and the global economy shudders, a quiet hunger has returned,...
Why Nobody Predicted This?
The world's greatest minds built frameworks to explain history, power, and civilisation. They were brilliant and often prophetic. And yet here we are, in...
