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 ...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is preparing its next presidential summit to be held on September 15 and 16 in Samarkand, the capital of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is the currently chairing the organization. The summit is prone to both widen the scope of the SCO as well as deepen its areas of cooperation. Let’s start with the first. West Asia joining ...