By Dure Akram For quite some time, a sequence of images has begun to define South Asian politics. Young Sri Lankans wandering through a presidential residence that had once seemed untouchable. Bangladeshi students carrying coffins through Dhaka after their classmates were killed. Teenagers in Kathmandu filming themselves outside parliament while a government tried to shut down the very social-media platforms ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer There is no doubt that India’s economic rise is becoming a significant area of interest in academic and political circles. Against the backdrop of global turbulence and GDP growth in the region of 6-7 percent, India is presented as a case study of the country that has successfully recovered from the pandemic shock, attracted massive foreign ...
In order to understand why India’s industrial take-off has yet to happen, one must look beyond desire and into the machinery of the economy. By Mehmet Enes Beşer India is at the cusp of its economic journey. Its population surpassing China’s and with a median age close to 29, the country has huge potential to harvest its demographic dividend. Government ...
Interview with Dr. Shoaib Khan, academic at the Center for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Mumbai By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The question of India’s political direction has long been on the international agenda. Most recently, the cordial appearances of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Chinese and Russian counterparts at the Shanghai Cooperation Meeting in China have ...
A Critical Analysis By Mehmet Enes Beşer India, the largest democracy in the world as it is most broadly defined, is fortunate to possess a rich cultural diversity of religions and ethnic groups. Its Constitution ensures equality, secularism, and protection to all citizens irrespective of background. Recent developments have falsified this pluralist nature by exposing an alarming divergence between constitutional ...
On the agenda: A joint response to Trump’s tariffs and naval exercises. As one of the leading alliances of the Global South, the BRICS is undertaking certain initiatives that might influence global power balances. The Brazilian President Lula da Silva convened BRICS leaders to a virtual meeting of heads of state. The meeting will be held on September 8. The ...
The Brahmaputra and Indus no longer simply carry glacial melt and monsoon rain. They carry contested power, unresolved histories, and national ambitions in liquid form. By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan The Brahmaputra is no longer just a marvel of nature. It has become a fulcrum of geopolitical power. From its origin in the highlands of Tibet to the ...
By Gökalp Erbaş The foreign agent law, as it is known in the public opinion, appears under different names and scopes in the laws of each country where it is in force. Although it came into force in the Russian Federation in 2012 and a similar law was discussed in Ukraine in 2014, it is actually a much older law. ...
The Schiller Institute has organized on July 8 and 9 an international conference titled “On the Verge of a New World War – European Nations Must Cooperate” in Strasbourg, France. Several politicians and scholars from a wide range of countries participated, and UWI will present a number of selected speeches from the conference. Today we present the speech held by ...
By Mehmet Emre Öztürk The informal QUAD-Group (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue), comprised of the US, India, Australia and Japan, has held a virtual meeting on presidential level on March 12 in its quest for an Indo-Pacific alliance. The process, described by the US as “historic”, aims to institutionalize the QUAD and create an alliance against China in the Indo-Pacific. The US ...