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9/11: 25 Years of an Unfinished War on Terror

The story of 9/11 did not end just with the destruction of the World Trade Centre. It transformed the way the international community understood terrorism, national security and counter-terrorism. The attacks brought terrorism to the centre of global politics and triggered the American-led “Global War on Terror,” beginning with Afghanistan and eventually extending to Iraq. …

9/11: 25 Years of an Unfinished War on Terror

Pakistan’s mediation in the US-Israel-Iran war: a failed state’s flailing attempt at global diplomatic glory

While the US-Israel-Iran crisis remains in an uneasy logjam with POTUS Donald J. Trump regularly issuing threats of unprecedented attacks while the Iranians exhibit their own form of belligerence riding on the back of years of regional hegemonic dominance, there is one two-bit player that has managed to insert itself in a space where it …

US-Israel-Iran war

The South China Sea: Asia’s Next Ukraine?

As the international system continues to grapple with the aftershocks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, strategic analysts increasingly draw parallels between Europe’s most destructive war since 1945 and rising tensions in the South China Sea. The analogy is imperfect, yet it is analytically instructive. The region’s accelerating militarisation, sharpening great-power rivalry, and high risk of …

Chinese and Philippine vessels in a tense standoff in the South China Sea amid rising geopolitical conflict

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