COVID-19, Afghanistan, and the peace process on April 21, 2020The peace deal 2020 had raised hopes of finally bringing an end to the twenty-year long war in Afghanistan. It was February 29, and a historic deal between state and non-state actors was signed. The US had agreed to pull out troops whilst the Taliban agreed to a ceasefire. The Afghan government was to release […]
Is India paving a path for a clash of civilisations? on March 21, 2020In the 1990s, Samuel Huntington’s thesis, “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, was published in Foreign Affairs. Huntington had suggested that the fundamental reason for the post-cold war conflicts would be the cultural differences between different civilizations. Hehad intelligently identified fault lines between various civilizations that would be battle fronts in […]