Opinion

By Maciej Artur Gaca   I n the past three years, both the European Union and India have been forced to redefine what “strategic autonomy” actually means. For Europe, the shock came from the pandemic, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and the deep realization that its...

By Bruno Surdel   Europe in 2025 has faced a complex puzzle: how to maintain pressure on Moscow while responding to unpredictable US–Russia diplomacy under President Donald Trump. Recall, the high-stakes Trump–Putin summit in Anchorage in mid-August, framed as a reset but yielding little clarity,...

By Joseph H Davis What are we to make of gold and US stocks, especially tech-heavy indices, recently hitting record highs around the same time? Traditionally, gold surges when equities correct, but this time, both have risen together, defying conventional wisdom. Faced with what look...

Shivaji Sarkar The New York mayoral election is being watched far beyond city limits. New York is not just the largest city in the United States; it is a cultural and financial power centre whose policy choices often ripple across national politics. The contest has...

Rakesh Mohan & Janak Raj Efforts to mitigate climate change have largely focused on the shift away from fossil fuels in energy production. As a result, most climate-finance assessments have studied the costs of such a transition and determined that large investments are required to...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee Elections are a continuing phase in Indian politics and are held as a process of legitimization of the political power to be acquired. In this scenario, for safeguarding the core values of a free and fair election, it is important to have...

By Malay Mishra PM Modi’s inexplicable absence from the ASEAN and EAS Summits in Malaysia (Oct 26-29), particularly in view of the rapidly evolving global relations in a multipolar world, has been viewed as a matter of concern among foreign policy analysts as a step-back...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak As the dust of the recently concluded mayoral election settles in New York’s political consciousness, a new dawn begins. Red babies are once again in the streets of Harlem, and it is now confirmed that thirty-four-year-old Zohran Kwame Mamdani is the...

By Nalinikanta Dhar The 30th Conference of Parties (COP-30) on climate change will be held from November 10 to 21 in Belém, Brazil, bringing together nearly 40,000 delegates from about 200 countries. Since its inception in 1995 in Berlin under the United Nations Framework Convention...

Nikhilanand Panigrahy Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again! Society, friendship and love, Divinely bestowed upon man. This verse is from the 18th-century (1782) English poem, “The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk” by William Cowper. The poem depicts...