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Dr Muhammad Ali EhsanThe Express Tribune |
Geographically I can draw no commonality between the Philippines and Pakistan as the former is an island country located in the western Pacific with...
America’s hypocrisy and double standards as a global hegemon once again came to lime light when on 19 April 2024 it vetoed a UNSC resolution on...
Having correct notions and making correct assumptions are the essential gifts of a truly great strategist. Without them strategising no more remains...
The world has witnessed both evolutions and revolutions to become what it is and where it stands today. It industrialised and it globalised and did...
In 2024 over two billion voters are expected to vote in over eighty countries around the world and as part of this process the Russians came out from...
George C Marshall served as the Chief of Staff of the US Army under President FD Rosevelt and Harry Truman and then as Secretary of State and...
Yield, submit, surrender or give in. Why is this the political approach in Pakistani politics? Why do the politicians see only the extreme ends and...
February 2024 marks the second anniversary of the special military operations that Russia began against Ukraine two years ago. These ongoing special...
The idea of convergence and divergence is an idea that defines the concept of balance in international relations. In the post-Cold War period almost...
Pakistan is eternally marred in the complexities and controversies of its domestic politics and there seems to be no end to the great desire of our...
T he elections are over and as I write the results are being compiled. Pre-election Pakistan had seen no level playing field and although we all are...
H istory being the study of change overtime always has a shape and a direction. Since it is time for politics in Pakistan and since the general...
T he views of Hassan Sardar and Shahbaz Ahmed (popularly known as Maradona of Hockey) on military warfare would have made no difference in how General...
T he missile attack by Iran on the territory of Pakistan is not an isolated incident and to understand why it happened, one needs to contextualise it...
E lections in Bangladesh were the first in year 2024. National elections in about 50 more countries will take place this year in which 2 billion...
W riting about history, Karl Marx says that it repeats itself twice — “the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce”. Most of the...
Mark Twain in Pakistan is best known for his forwarded and re-forwarded quotes on social media but he was much more than that. He is considered the...
T he smartest thing that politics of any country can do is to correctly anticipate what lies ahead. If you know what lies ahead you can plan in...
I t has been almost three months that I am here in Russia. Whenever asked how’s life there, my answer always is: cold — very cold. Days are as...
S trategic logic comes from strategic minds, and at the national level all strategies are backed by strategic logic. These logics explain why a given...
T o admire the likes of Aristotle, Machiavelli, Churchill or Kissinger you have to be an Aristotelian, a Machiavellian, a Churchillian or a...
T he ultimate test of any theory is how well it explains the events in the real world. All social scientists make use of the theories to make...
It is in the nature of the dominant powers to make use of geopolitics, but somehow the Middle Eastern world of 21st century had forgotten this. The...
The big story of 21st century will not be the story of the US military might or Israel’s crimes against humanity and genocides but the rise of East...
A big problem that global, regional or national leadership faces is not to be aware of the time for change and correct strategies that may be employed...
The forecast is of greater geopolitical instability, the challenge is of rising insecurity and the need of the hour is of a coherent political...
Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS), the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for last so many years, seems a man on a mission. Given his young age he is considered as...
Palestine is back in the news. After Oslo Accord and for over thirty years the world didn’t talk about the two-state solution. Gave up on the...
The United States has pivoted towards Asia-Pacific and has redirected its resources to the increasing threats posed by China and Russia. It cannot...
The great distinction between a nationalist and a patriot is that a patriot is proud of what his country does but a nationalist is proud of his...
In international relations the credibility of a state is defined as ‘why the world listens to you’. Loss of credibility results in the loss of any...
The United States has a peculiar diplomatic history. It applies coercive means, economic pressures, isolation techniques and even military deterrence...
The shift in any nation’s fate is driven by either the success in the system or its failure. The prime examples of the shifts driven by failure of...