Europe likes to talk about “strategic autonomy.” It features prominently in speeches, summit communiqués, and glossy EU Commission pamphlets. Yet beneath the rhetoric lies an uncomfortable reality: the European Union has never been more strategically dependent on the United States, particularly in energy. Far from escaping an abusive economic relationship with Washington, Brussels has locked [...]

Japan’s long and controversial effort to revive its nuclear power sector suffered another setback this week after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) shut down a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear facility in the world, just one day after it was restarted. The precautionary shutdown, triggered by a malfunction in [...]

Sudan is standing at the edge of a humanitarian abyss. What is unfolding there is not merely another crisis competing for attention in a crowded global news cycle, but one of the gravest moral and political tests of the 21st century. According to a stark warning issued by the United Nations, existing food aid reserves [...]

Nothing is more dangerous to a state than a temporary economic crisis-except the moment when the rule of law ceases to function as a binding authority and becomes a selective, negotiable concept. When truth is replaced by slander, accountability by defamation, and institutions by noise, the damage extends far beyond balance sheets and market confidence. [...]

To speak seriously of Martin Luther King Jr. today is already to enter into conflict with the form in which he is publicly remembered. King survives as a moral icon precisely because his thought has been stripped of its antagonism. He is invoked as a patron saint of patience and civility, a figure used to [...]

President Donald Trump’s latest bout of erratic behavior — culminating in a public campaign to acquire Greenland while linking that policy to not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize — is alarming international observers and allies alike. Trump reportedly dispatched a message to Norway’s prime minister asserting that, because he had been “snubbed” by the Nobel [...]

The process of Moldova distancing itself from its traditional partners in the post-Soviet space is accelerating. The country seems determined to follow the same path as post-Maidan Ukraine, taking a pro-Western and anti-Russian direction. The most recent step by the Moldovan government was to formally initiate the country’s exit from the Commonwealth of Independent States [...]

On January 20, the Russian military launched a massive combined arms strike on the Neo-Nazi junta, hitting hundreds of targets across NATO-occupied Ukraine. Figures vary depending on the source, but it would seem that the Kremlin fired upwards of 350 drones (mostly “Geranium” variants), over 20 Kh-101 cruise missiles, up to 20 9M723 hypersonic missiles of the 9K720M “Iskander-M” [...]

Indian Politics and Women: Concepts and Discourses is a curriculum-oriented, research-based textbook developed in accordance with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the revised undergraduate framework of the University of Delhi. Written primarily to address the long-standing gap in quality Hindi-medium academic resources (though conceptually bilingual in scope), the book positions itself at the intersection [...]

The killing of a 19-year-old Buddhist youth in Cox’s Bazar has intensified concerns among Bangladesh’s religious minority communities, coming amid allegations of prolonged communal threats, earlier attacks on the victim’s family, and claims of intimidation by local radical elements.
The victim, Rahid Barua, was found dead on the morning of January 19, hanging from a tree [...]