Category: World Affairs

International Relations

Geopolitics & Indian Ocean Affairs

The challenge before America is not to recreate an idealised past, but to renew itself while remaining faithful to the enduring principles upon which it was founded

Why America keeps getting Iran wrong

Politics

Politics

The pothole isn’t the story; it’s a symptom of two nations moving in opposite directions

Alexander’s empire disappeared. Rome collapsed. The British Empire dissolved. The Soviet Union vanished. Persia endured them all

International Relations

What the alleged latest chagos proposal tells us about our times

History becomes history when both sides agree it is over. More than a century after Amritsar and decades after the separation of Chagos, that moment remains elusive

Breakfast with Bwana

A rules-based order fails when rules bend for strategic convenience but remain rigid for the weak

Diplomacy

London Letter