Nothing encapsulates and perhaps embodies the spirit of globalisation better than world trade, most of which is carried out via the medium of the sea. Maritime trade can thus be said to be the pivot around which the global economy as well as our collective social well-being actually revolves. The enormous natural resources on land,…
The evolving strategic competition between the great powers introduces the counterbalancing forces emerging from different states. The ongoing and unending struggle to dominate the world by expanding the political sphere of influence has remained an undeniable feature of a state’s foreign policy which rarely supports the status quo in international system. Irrefutable forces of wars…
IntroductionWhatever problem you may speak about or whatever arguments you may use to prove a stance, only facts can be the best solution in a discussion. Why? Because they are undeniable. The Afghanistan intervention beginning with the War on Terror supplemented by the 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom has become the longest war in US history…
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…
“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…
“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…
The Republic of Turkmenistan is a “connecting hub”. Now it has also become an enterprising country where sky is the limit for high levels of socio-economic prosperity and qualitative of life. It connects Commonwealth Independent States of Central (CIS) to Caucasus and Europe and is a role model of regional connectivity. It is the leader of “energy diplomacy” in…
