Confronted by a rash of insurgencies across the country, Myanmar’s government has devised a plan for an amicable political transition. It has decided in principle to hold national elections next year, paving the way for democratic civilian rule.
The highly consequential meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping is opening exciting new opportunities.
On October 7 last year, Israel was rocked by a horrendous terror attack marshalled by Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Around 1500 people perished in the strike—an event that a shell-shocked nation has been unable to digest.
Exactly 2500 years ago, in 477/476 BC, the premonition of serious changes in the balance of power in the Old World was in the air. Whereas 500 years earlier Israel and China were the world leaders, the situation was now reversed. The Jews were now obedient subjects of the gigantic Achaemenid Persian Empire, at the time the largest in history in terms of area and power.
The ambitious prime minister is viewed with caution even in the United States, despite his pro-American position.
We present to your attention a new historical-didactic series of essays on the history of the geopolitical balance of power through the comparison of different chronological cutaways, which allow us to assess the milestones in the formation of civil multipolarism.
The missile strikes by Iran on Israel are a natural step from the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is a response to Israel’s prior actions against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, including the assassination of its leader, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and Hamas’ political leader, Ismail Haniyeh (killed in Tehran), as well as the genocide of civilians in Gaza.
In the West, there are both excellent right-wing and very respectable left-wing figures. For instance, the AfD (Alternative for Germany) is a remarkable right-wing movement, and Sahra Wagenknecht is an outstanding leftist. In the United States, there are right-wing figures like Trump and Vance, but also leftists like Tulsi Gabbard and Kennedy. This pattern exists everywhere.
If to use the method of combining political geography and geopolitics, it is easy to reveal that the group of countries located north of the Arabian Sea has a number of common features.
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