From Pakistan over Nepal to Indonesia… This year, 2025, saw the United States escalate its actions in Asia to unprecedented levels. In April, India and Pakistan continued their long history of conflict following the attack by the Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, in Kashmir, which left 26 Indian tourists and a local worker dead ...
A closer look at the heart of the continent. Although it may seem like a cliché, it’s worth recalling for the purposes of this analysis the prophecy of the English geopolitician Halford John MacKinder, who stated at the beginning of the 19th century that “whoever dominates Central Asia dominates Eurasia, and whoever dominates Eurasia dominates the world.” His views, outlined ...
The US is reluctantly abandoning its attempt to maintain a unipolar world order. By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China Trump’s re-election highlights the weakening of current US hegemony, while also exposing a radical fracture in the US-led international order. Over the last two decades, US global hegemony has been seriously shaken by political, economic, and military crises and defeats. As the ...