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  • Abstract: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) technologies are a double-edged sword. While ML/AI prove to be beneficial to us in myriad ways, we should also remain vigilant about the potential harm that ML/AI can bring upon our societies. With the use of rapidly evolving, sophisticated ML/AI beginning to manipulate both the rate and nature of content… Read more →

  • Abstract: The emergence and spread of the evolved Sars-Cov-2 with a tremendous contagious capacity from a virus family of millenary existence (Coronavirus) has presented a major challenge for disciplines such as geopolitics without distinguishing between race, creed, age, social class and geographic region among other categorizations. Geopolitics focuses on the study and explanation of politics… Read more →

  • Abstract: The demise of the Soviet Union along with the end of the Cold War heralded a new era for Indo-US ties seeing as it was followed by a significant realignment in the global order. While the United States (US) enjoyed a brief moment of unipolarity, India emerged from its cocoon of protectionism and moved… Read more →

  • Abstract: American foreign policy has gone through three distinct stages: isolationism, containment, and global hegemony. But instead of transitioning into a policy of globalization, American foreign policy has reverted to a policy of containment vis-à-vis Russia and China, thus dividing the world between a Western bloc and an Eastern bloc yet again. It is unclear… Read more →

  • Abstract: Armed forces play an essential role in public diplomatic efforts. By conducting peacekeeping and human-centric operations, participating in international military exercises, and international engagement in humanitarian assistance, the armed forces effectively support public diplomacy. These missions provide revenue for exporting foreign policy. Active service of military members on the ground has the potential to… Read more →

  • Abstract: Following a decade of euphoria that lasted from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the collapse of the Twin Towers, international relations have been witnessing a new era of Cold War. The article draws parallels between the doctrine of Truman and the doctrine of Putin, opining that in both cases what triggered confrontation… Read more →

  • Abstract: A vast majority of European Union (EU) heads of state and an increasing number of leading politicians have advocated for the initiation of an armed force within the region, preferably in the near future. Interestingly, the dialogue has not been followed by deeds, mainly due to lack of political will – a prerequisite to… Read more →

  • Abstract: The Second World War is the best example of total war. It required the complete mobilization of societies. The disposal of resources shaped States’ overall strategies as never before. This paper aims to describe the strategic differences between the Third Reich and the Allies. Nazi Germany built up a pyramid of risks that eventually… Read more →

  • Abstract: India’s imperatives for a sea-based nuclear deterrent arise from its need for strategic autonomy in the world order, which necessitates that its deterrence building is an incremental process until it can be at par with global agenda-setters. While India, not wanting to indulge in an arms race, is not pursuing deterrence by sheer numbers,… Read more →

  • Abstract: The goals of reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons now have poor prospects as major nuclear-armed powers reaffirmed these Weapons of Mass Destruction’s (WMD) strategic value several times. Global nuclear arms race and proliferation to security-ambitious non-nuclear-armed countries also threaten to prolongate the nuclear era indefinitely. Nuclear-armed states have used the NPT to… Read more →

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