Deal or No Deal? The Future of Ukraine & Global Power Play:

Will the Russia-Ukraine war end in 2025? | Nearly three years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the conflict and consequent sanctions have significantly impacted the world. The world is divided between countries supporting Ukraine and those who have opted to stay neutral.

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The Iran Factor: Crisis, Convergence, Competition | Raisina Dialogue 2025:

The attack by Hamas on Israel in October 2023 and the muscular response that followed is reshaping what was already a fast-changing extended Middle East. The foreign policy aims of many countries, including Iran and global powers with a footprint in the region, have been re-oriented.

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Effectively, Trump is articulating what the rest of the world has known for long: the power of the US to enforce an international rules-based order has been enfeebled. His aggressive withdrawal from it is an admission of failure. As a result, short-term national interests will overrule long-term global engagements. Ahead, each country stands alone.

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Conversations with an America-First grand strategy:


Effectively, Trump is leveraging the power of the US economy to coerce the rest of the world to serve American interests. Other than a shift in stance from the covert to the overt, this is not new. The US grand strategy has always used power economic, power diplomatic, power strategic, power military, and power informational to push its domestic interests and shape global agendas.

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The enduring allure of grand narratives in the digital age:
Throughout history, grand narratives—metanarratives arising from a society’s collective anxieties and aspirations, influencing its social, cultural, and political agency—have served as powerful instruments of political and ideological control. They have steered the course of history, defining the self-identity and agency of societies. The Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC) engendered an enduring civilisational divide rooted in assertions of superiority, shaping over two and a half millennia of the east-west dynamics, including almost five centuries of colonial politics.

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