Analytical articles

The MENA remains highly important, alternately fascinating and frustrating but full of promise and opportunity in a changing world

Russian policy is essentially an attempt to balance a number of diverging principles, goals, priorities and modes of engagement in the Eastern Mediterranean

Not sending officials to the Olympic Games in Beijing, Western leaders demonstrated a spectacular lack of vision and a deficit of common sense

The December round of sanctions continued the course of tough measures. Now the Belarusian leader faces two basic scenarios: low profile or a new round of escalation

At the Summit, differences were set aside to make transformative progress in defence, fintech and connectivity, commencing a new era of India-Russia relations fit for the 21st century

The two nations should take a clear-eyed review of the current state of their ties with an emphasis on intensifying dialogue in the new sectors

Afghanistan is an issue on which China, Russia and the US can find common language

Logic, common sense and event analysis suggest that a large-scale war with Ukraine is completely irrelevant to Moscow’s plans

The President of Russia has made an exception for India. And this conveys the importance that Moscow attaches to bilateral cooperation with the leading power of the South Asian subcontinent

A joint statement on exchanging information could arguably serve as a precursor for a more earnest and verifiable treaty, with the ultimate prospect of resuming U.S.–Russia TMD cooperation

In the United States, there is a renewed discussion about the advisability of expanding sanctions on Russian sovereign debt

To remove local administrative barriers for power interchanges and to switch the energy sector to a flexible market pricing system would be wise for the energy systems to see better adaptability