Brahma Chellaney

After more than a year of fighting, it is clear that neither side in the Russia-Ukraine war can win on the battlefield. A negotiated ceasefire is the only way out of the current military deadlock, and it must happen before Russia and China cement a strategic axis that weakens the West and leaves Tai...

NEW DELHI – “Great nations do not fight endless wars,” US President Donald Trump declared in his 2019 State of the Union speech. He had a point: military entanglements in the Middle East have contributed to the relative decline of American power and facilitated China’s muscular rise. And yet, less t...

NEW DELHI – Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the Moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content with possessing enough nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on Earth many times over, major powers are rapidly militarizing space. Given the world’s increasin...

America is preparing to hand Afghanistan back to the group it removed from power 17 years ago

Indigenous people are an essential element of cultural diversity and ecological harmony. Let them live in peace in the ancestral lands

Creating a free and open Indo-Pacific is not the job of one country alone.

America’s “China fantasy,” as James Mann calls it, was exemplified by Bill Clinton’s argument in favor of allowing China’s admission to the World Trade Organization

True energy security is possible only in the context of resource, climate, and environmental sustainability. The global focus obscures these critical linkages

Lanka’s experience illustrates that Chinese financing can shackle its “partner” countries.

China’s fast-growing trade surplus with India has increased President Xi’s territorial assertiveness