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For five days in late July 2025, the world witnessed violence erupt once again on the Thailand-Cambodia border, one of the most prominent flashpoints in Southea...
When Pakistan issued 75-rupee commemoration banknotes in 2022 to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of its independence, the symbolism was hard to miss. The new...
The skies roared overhead as two Mi-17V5 helicopters cut through the air at the Independence Day Parades in New Delhi, one bearing the Indian tricolor, the othe...
In the once-packed streets of Surat, Gujarat, the dissonance of polishing machines and voices has lulled to a halt. A sign of life in the streets of the diamond...
Think of a world where each click, each message you send, and each transaction you make creates a value, but not for you, or even for your own country. Rather, ...
Zhiguo He is a Chinese economist and James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Stanford faculty, h...
The Cold War may feel like distant history, but its echoes are unmistakable in today’s geopolitical landscape as the United States once again arms foreign allie...
Introduction The region of Arunachal, a sparsely populated Himalayan borderland, had long eluded the firm control of any pre-modern state. Only in 1912-13 did B...
Introduction In an era dominated by military and economic interests, the concept of soft power offers an alternative framework for understanding global influenc...
Frameworks for Genocide in Communist Studies From 1930 to 1933, the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan suffered a horrific yet understudied episode of famine, violen...
