Tag: Show-Worlds Apart
Contest of grandiosity? Mohammed Ihsan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London
With the war in Ukraine still dominating the international headlines, the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq has come and gone barely noticed, although the consequences of that decision still have a major influence on both the country and the region. Two decades on, what’s the state of Iraqi Freedom? …
Deterred deterrence? Pravin Sawhney, former Indian Army officer and editor of FORCE Magazine
The idea of creating a clone of NATO around the Pacific Ocean has been tantalizing the minds of Western strategists ever since Washington announced its intention to pivot to Asia, but it never quite came to fruition because of India’s hesitance. Is it going to be more likely after the conflict in Ukraine? …
High moral pit? Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European politics, University of Kent
Competing interests and power politics have existed ever since nation states came into being, spurring the development of diplomacy on the one hand, and fueling arms races on the other. But every now and then, especially in European politics, diplomats and generals get sidelined by demagogues who bank on portraying adversaries as not just geopolitical competitors, but moral degenerates or civilizational inferiors. …
