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The Tale of the Elephant (the US) and the Mahout (Israel)

In geopolitics, the US is the elephant — powerful but often misguided — while Israel is the mahout directing the US. This dynamic shapes the narrative of the Iran conflict:... Read full article

I.M. Manava - March 11, 2026

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Europe, Iran and the New Face of American Power
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Should India’s Supreme Court Have Banned a Grade 8 Social Science Textbook?
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Inconvenient Fictions: The Deliberate Dismantling of International Law and Norms
by Joanna Rozpedowski
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The Emperor Has No Words… and the Empire’s Media No Balls
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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

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The Story of World War II

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Devil’s Stagecraft: When Biblical Prophecy Drives Foreign Policy

Shakespeare’s Macbeth offers a haunting mirror for today’s geopolitics. The witches’ art of “equivocation” — truths carefully crafted to deceive...

Is Europe a Possessed Continent?

Europe’s crisis runs deeper than economics or politics — it’s both an identity crisis and a...

Marco Rubio Reassures Europe to Death

Europe craved reassurance at Munich. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio obliged by delivering hollow platitudes...

The Iran War: How Does It End?

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without...

by Gary Grappo

What the Iran War Reveals About the Limits of Chinese Power

by Daniel Wagner

The Time Is Out of Joint: Power, Misalignment and the G1.5 World

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Can Bangladesh’s Nationalist Party Transform the Country’s Foreign Policy?

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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