The United States’ January 2026 military intervention in Venezuela and the forcible transfer of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to U.S. custody has become one of the sharpest stress tests of the post-1945 international order. What unfolded was not merely coercive diplomacy but a collision between power politics and the legal framework designed after […]
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BRICS and the Search for a Plural World Order
BRICS did not emerge as a formal alliance, nor was it conceived as a challenge to the existing international system in the traditional sense. Its origins lie instead in a shared dissatisfaction among large emerging economies with a global order that no longer reflected shifting distributions of power. When the acronym was coined in the […]
Posted inGlobal South, Latin America
Nayib Bukele and the Working-Class Struggle in El Salvador
Like several countries around the world, El Salvador is experiencing an onslaught of extreme right-wing policies. The current government of Nayib Bukele rules the country under a crackdown, persecutes human rights defenders, concentrates power, passes bills to deepen the neoliberalist model imposed on the country, establishes a pedagogy of blind obedience to authority, and expresses […]
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The Obedience Industry
In India, the politician is not merely an administrator. He is a spectacle, a myth in motion, an everyday sovereign who governs as much through suggestion as through command. His gestures, folded hands, orchestrated humility, and performative anger carry the weight of centuries of hierarchy. To fear him is to participate in a cultural reflex, […]
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The Theatre of Fury and Fame
In India today, the archetype of the angry young man has left the cinema and entered the streets. The figure once embodied by Amitabh Bachchan in the 1970s—an individual railing against injustice—has been transformed into a real-life agent of spectacle. Aspirational youth from small towns and peri-urban India often translate frustration and humiliation into violent […]
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Crises in Bangladesh and Nepal and Their Effects on India
The political and social turbulences in Bangladesh and Nepal in recent years reveal striking parallels, even as the circumstances and consequences in each country diverge in meaningful ways. In both nations, growing dissatisfaction among younger generations has become a central driver of unrest. Youth populations, frustrated by limited opportunities, widespread corruption, and opaque political systems, […]
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Norway at the Crossroads of Justice, Peace and Climate Responsibility
As Norway approaches another election, its political debate no longer sits neatly within the familiar terrain of tax codes, budgetary allocations, and the technical balance of welfare policies. It has widened into a deeper question of political imagination. What kind of nation should Norway become in a world increasingly shaped by instability, climate anxiety, technological […]
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They Never Left
This article explores the quiet entrenchment of unofficial power brokers within crumbling bureaucracies, using Raebareli as a lens to reflect a broader malaise across the global South. These unaccountable actors thrive not by disrupting systems, but by embedding themselves in their decay. Neither elected nor appointed, they persist as the living proof of institutional collapse.
Posted inAsia
Tides of Proximity and Politics in India Sri Lanka Relations
Historical Continuities and Early Diplomacy India and Sri Lanka’s relationship is one of the most enduring and multifaceted bilateral ties in South Asia, shaped by shared geography, deep cultural affinities, and complex political dynamics. Mythology has long woven symbolic threads between the two nations. The epic Ramayana situates Lanka as the kingdom of Ravana, whose […]
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Sweden: Ukrainian refugee family with four children is left without any economic support
For anyone who has dealt with foreigners in Scandinavia, it has become a common pattern. Nevertheless, it is shocking every time. Immigrants and refugees are welcome to contribute to society by paying taxes. However, when it is time to use the welfare goods these taxes fund, the situation changes completely.