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Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774–1904 by Gordon T. Stewart Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 280, $33, ISBN 978-0521735681 ...

Katherine T. Harris (ed.), Geopolitics of Oil , Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York, 2009, pp. 165, US$69, ISBN 978-1606928103 Peter Maass, Crude World: The ...

replies: Mackinder’s heartland theory highlighted the probability of Imperial Russia, which occupies the vast, interior, pivotal position in Eurasia, and which enjoys direct territorial access to all ...

Ved Prakash asked: What strategic role is India playing in the Asia Pacific region to counter China’s aggressiveness?

Four times since Pakistan’s creation, the Baloch, who never wanted to be part of Pakistan, have rebelled, demanding autonomy or an independent state. After three decades, Balochistan is in turmoil… ...

replies: Within the BRICS, its constituent members collectively wish to gain a number of objectives at the broader global level, which they are unable to achieve at the individual level.… Continue ...

The outcome of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in October 2022, was on predictable lines. It was no surprise that President Xi Jinping was chosen… Continue reading ...

Experts are still searching for a settled answer to the causes and aftermath of the violent unrest between the Han and Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province that erupted on July 5, 2009. The ...

Praveen CV asked: What are the challenges faced by India in its bid to secure the permanent membership in the UNSC?

The stunted and stumbling progress of the ‘liberal peace’ philosophy since 1990 tells a complex story. In this article, I give a history of the liberal peace project from its academic and activist ...

The religious and political ideas of Sayyid Abdul A’la Mawdudi (Mawlana Mawdudi) provide the ideological current to groups contending for the supremacy of Islam (rather than Islamic Revivalism).