The contemporary history of world politics is undeniably rooted in the intense US–USSR confrontation under the prolonged conflict of the Cold War. The global competition to dominate the international system by acquiring the status of global hegemon between capitalist and communist forces of Washington and Moscow shook the foundations of international global affairs. The period…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6E1luxLQQ This ten minutes clip of the Second World War captures an important chapter of the Indian army. War stories are usually focused on combat soldiers while support services though vital usually don’t get much attention. However, we all know that if supply corps does not send food in time, a hungry soldier cannot survive…
IntroductionThe US still wields considerable economic power and possesses unmatchable military potency at the international level. The entire world closely watched the debates between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican hopeful Donald Trump for the most powerful position in the world, the US President. The hawkish and incendiary language of firebrand Trump against China, Russia…
Donald Trump’s victory has caught the World by its throat, and in all likelihood, we are in for interesting times. The first post-election Trump-Obama summit showed a grim looking Obama trying to put up a brave face. Every analyst is busy in separating Donald J Trump’s electoral rhetoric into pursuable and abandon-able categories. However, his…
Dear Readers, Moving away from the British monarchical practice, America’s founding fathers devised a system that bestowed responsibility upon the people to select their leader. George Washington was elected in 1789 to become the first U.S. president, since then the right of suffrage has been expanded to cover all citizens over 18. Taking place every…
“We have appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had God willed, He would have made you a single community, but He wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to God and He will…
A fascinating country, the Republic of Azerbaijan has achieved tremendous socio-economic prosperity, geo-political stability and geo-strategic importance after independence in 1991 under the leadership of National Leader H.E. Heydar Aliyev and President H.E. Ilham Aliyev. The main achievement of Azerbaijan since its independence has been the strengthening of statehood and turning the country into a…
Over a 100 million TV viewers watched Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face-off in the first of three US Presidential debates in the evening of Monday, Sept 26. The build-up had been extraordinary, igniting huge emotions for and against the candidates. My friend Frank Neuman, vociferously Republican and therefore pro-Trump, summarized the expectations to be…
“In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences…
Azerbaijan and Pakistan completed 25 years of bilateral relationship and cooperation that extends to every sphere ranging from political, economic, technological, security to cultural arenas. The relation is based on a concept of “shared prosperity” and on rigorous commercial diplomacy and is consolidated on greater socio-economic connectivity, better political understanding and geo-strategic cooperation and increasing…
