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Hervé Juvin compares prevailing perceptions and trends that marked the end of the last century with the current attitudes and realisations that often contradict and discredit the predictions made then about the End of History and the universal validity of Western liberal individualism and capitalism. Instead the diversity of civilisations is now being recognised and Localism is becoming popular as a guiding principl ...

Andrey G Volodin analyses the processes of regrouping of forces in world politics after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The regrouping of rising powers that began in Eurasia is currently taking the form of a new, polycentric world order. Centres of geopolitical gravity are emerging, around which the ‘building blocks’ of a new system are taking shape. The ‘world liberal order’ that emerged afte ...

Tiberio Graziani develops a theoretical model for analysing contemporary geopolitics through a macro-geographical, structural, and spherical perspective. He argues that global power in the twenty-first century is shaped by persistent spatial asymmetries rooted in hemispheric divisions (Western and Eastern), planetary axes (Northern and Southern), and the progressive verticalisation of geopolitical space. The proposed&n ...

In international politics, regionalism refers to the process by which countries within a specific geographic area form alliances, organisations, or agreements to promote cooperation in economic, political, security, or cultural domains. Since the end of the Second World War, regionalism has been a prominent feature of international relations, enabling neighbouring states to manage their interactions more effectively and pursue shared objec ...

The EU has evolved as a significant actor in international politics. Its role in international politics is predominantly understood within the liberal-idealist framework of normative power. But how far the EU is effective in promoting human rights (HR) norms beyond its neighbourhood and how do targeted countries respond to such HR norm promotion by the EU? To find answers to these questions, Priya Kumari criticall ...

This article reviews the evolution of international human rights and criminal law regarding the responsibilities and liabilities of private corporations during armed international or domestic conflicts. Maya Nirula argues that international humanitarian law should be applied to monitor corporate behaviour in conflict areas, and to mandate due diligence and risk assessment from business leaders and their legal advi ...

The saying ‘History Repeats Itself ’ seems very much relevant in the present context of India and its relations with the USA, China and Pakistan. For Independent India, the USA-China-Pakistan triangle has long been a strategic challenge. In its eight decades of independence, India has had to deal with this triangle on many occasions. The first experience came in the 1970s with the birth of Bangladesh. The most recent confrontation h ...

American policies under the second Trump administration have caused political, economic, and social turmoil in the USA, and many other countries. India, had been, since the 1990s (when the country began to turn away from socialist economic policies), engaged a slow and gradual process of convergence with the USA in strategic and commercial terms, but it has been jolted by the aggressive tariffs and new trade barriers raised by President Tr ...

Since 2014, the India-Russia nuclear partnership has evolved against the backdrop of shifting global power dynamics and growing strategic uncertainty. Nalinie Sharma and Malkiat Singh ask how do systemic pressures and domestic considerations combine to shape the trajectory of this cooperation? It demonstrates how external factors—such as major power rivalries, US-Russia te ...

Mirai Chatterjee retraces the origins and development of the cooperative movement among women workers in the informal sector of the economy that accounts for the majority of India’s labour force. The author explains, on the basis of her long personal experience, the challenges faced by the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She notes the opportunities that cooperative initiatives have opened up for&n ...