While it remains to be seen whether Pakistan will grotesquely transform from the “Zipper of Eurasia” into the “Faultline of Eurasia” like is feared, that scenario is still credible enough to seriously concern all stakeholders. South Asia’s Central Role In The Great Bifurcation The global systemic transition to multipolarity is leading to profound changes across…
Russia’s military, economic, strategic, and potentially even diplomatic support for Myanmar (the latter referring in this context to it possibly mediating the Rohingya dispute with neighboring Bangladesh) can combine to create effective “Democratic Security” outcomes for stabilizing this geo-pivotal state at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia, which will in turn accelerate the global…
The Eastern Economic Forum might have begun as a purely economic event seven years ago, but it’s since evolved into a strategic one due to the current context because it provides the platform for creating complex relations of mutual economic interdependence that in turn lead to the construction of multipolar institutions. The seventh Eastern Economic…
Russia has mastered the art of “Democratic Security” at home so there’s no doubt that the Golden Billion’s political fantasy to “decolonize” (“Balkanize”) it is doomed to fail. Instead of “resting on its laurels”, this recently restored world power that’s leading the global systemic transition to multipolarity is eager to help other targeted states across…
No country should ever enter into a position of disproportionate dependence whereby they literally come to rely on anyone else, though nor should they isolate themselves from global processes either, hence the need to pragmatically strike a careful balance between these two goals exactly as Russia is doing. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov shared two bits…
Vietnamese-Indian relations remain an important axis of South-South cooperation that deserves to be followed more closely by intrepid observers going forward since these two states are crucial regional nodes of the emerging new Non-Aligned Movement (“Neo-NAM”) that’ll come to play a greater role in the future. Vietnam doesn’t usually come to mind right away when…
