The unipolar moment is over. When will the US get it?
These former Global South leaders don’t mince words when it comes to America’s diminishing leadership and the “rules based order.”
These former Global South leaders don’t mince words when it comes to America’s diminishing leadership and the “rules based order.”
Efforts to avoid sanctions by promoting an alternative to US-dominated financial networks has its challenges. But that could change.
Some had interpreted recent statements to suggest that New Delhi and Beijing were getting fed up with Putin.
Despite issues, Mexico’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine deserves more serious engagement than it’s gotten so far.
In contrast, Washington’s coalitions in the ‘Indo-Pacific’ and elsewhere are failing to gain new adherents.
Despite the West’s containment strategy, Moscow is deepening its convergence with China and maintaining strong ties with India.
The PM knows his legitimacy as a leader rests not only on getting his country out of recession but millions out of crushing poverty.
Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it’s essentially a security bloc by stealth.
Extreme weather has been called a ‘threat multiplier’ — feeding into existing social and political problems and making them even worse.
The Global South is not intimidated and has increasingly refused to ally with the West on sanctions and condemnations.
New Delhi’s relationship with Moscow is complicated and goes beyond what the United States wants in response to the Ukraine invasion.
If Washington is wise, it won’t punish its friends for acting in their own interests.
Washington wants Dhaka to join its regional coalition meant to contain China, but sanctions might not be the way to do it.
New Delhi will continue to resist falling in line with Washington, potentially thwarting American strategies of neo-primacy.
Any optimism for a stable relationship has been all but buried with nationalist ambitions and competing security frameworks.
At first sight, the insurgents’ return to power is good news for Pakistan, but this could prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
UPDATE: Fumio Kishida, officially elected prime minister today in a parliamentary vote, may seek more independence from Washington.
But unlike AUKUS, the US-Japan-Australia-India compact has a narrow path to emerge as a constructive actor in Asia.
The prospect of new extremist threats pouring into or igniting within these states or just over the border is a real security issue.
There will likely be a return to a much more historically normal state of global affairs in which multiple players are engaged.
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