Playing World politics on silver screen

Politics and cinema of any country are the strongest tools that go hand in hand.  One way or the way they affect each other, though their connections may be sometimes tacit and invisible their mutual linkage could not be ostracized by anyone. The past events and personalities are personified on the Silver Screen in such […]

Russia-Ukraine war: war of attrition

What are the historical similarities that we can draw between the ongoing one-year-long Russia-Ukrainian war? This would likely be the first unofficial war between the two countries where two records and captures battle field developments live for them.  The war is unofficial according to international law as Moscow has not declared war on Kyiv. Technically […]

China, US in chessboard of Africa

The chess board of global politics aligns and changes itself with every slight move in international politics so quickly and sharply that one has to be on a constant vigil least one might be at the receiving end.  After the demise of the Soviet Union world remained unipolar for more than two decades. Russia attacked […]

The National Narrative in Education

The National Narrative. Story & story-telling is something that has always fascinated man from antiquity to the present digital age. Every region of the world & culture has its own tales that reverberate in their social or collective consciousness showing their worldview. They tell their young ones who were they, where they came from & […]

Mao & China; before & after Revolution-3

Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century; A Concise History   Professor Rebecca E. Karl s’ book. Chapter # 7 Great Leap and Restoration, 1958-1965 1. Khrushchev invited Mao to attain the 40th birthday of USSR in November 1957. Mao’s position in this visit was totally different from his earlier weak position of 1949. He […]

Mao & China; before & after Revolution-2

Mao Zedong and China in Twentieth-Century; A concise History Professor Rebecca. E Karl s’ book. Chapter#4 Establishing Revolutionary Bases. From Jingganshan to Yan’an, 1928-1935 1. Mao established a revolutionary base at a place called Jingganshan in the Jiangxi province in 1927- 28. The White Terror made him realized the need of a strong revolutionary army […]

Cultural dimensions of Foreign Policy

Culture Culture is everywhere.  Everything is Culture.  The ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular person or a society are conglomerated in the word “culture”. The conventional concept of culture is seen as a tool that has a separate and isolated existence of its own having nothing to do with the politics and international […]

The Golding of National Security

The significance of gold in grand strategy is usually underrated.  This misconception is the result of open denigration for the economist who believed on its superiority for the national power. For some (John Keynes) it was a ‘barbaric relic’ while for others (Ben Bernanke) it was merely a ‘tradition of past’. The two types of […]

Why we do not see some conflicts?

When a plane comes spiralling down  after being hit by another plane  or it crashes accidently with ground, these and such like other events make headlines in media. Their value is even more heightened when they are videoed or live broadcasted to the viewers to watch on. But this is not done all the time […]

That is only good for me!

Why are National Interests Necessary? Article courtesy by; Professor Mikhail Troitsky. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru International relations are concerned with national interests and how they evolve. Some researchers insist that there are obligatory and unchangeable interests expressed in terms of power or prosperity. Others suggest reconstructing national interests depending on how a country acts in a particular situation. […]

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