Diplomacy & Politics (Page 4)

When the Numbers Don't Lie: Gaza, Lebanon, and the Legal Case Israel Cannot Close

Casualty figures are not just statistics. They are evidence. The scale of civilian death in Gaza and Lebanon, documented by UN agencies and independent monitors, constitutes a legal record that accumulates regardless of how the political argument around it is managed.

By Sunny Peter

/ 12 Mar 2026

When the Numbers Don't Lie: Gaza, Lebanon, and the Legal Case Israel Cannot Close

The Bargain That Broke: How the Iran War Shattered the Abraham Accords' Founding Logic

The Abraham Accords were built on a premise: Arab states could normalise with Israel in exchange for security guarantees and American backing. The US-Israel war on Iran shattered that premise. The Accords still exist on paper. The logic that held them together does not.

By Sunny Peter

/ 9 Mar 2026

The Bargain That Broke: How the Iran War Shattered the Abraham Accords' Founding Logic

Semiconductor Chessboard: How the US-China AI Race is Redrawing Global Alliances and Diplomatic Strategy

The US-China rivalry has found its sharpest edge in semiconductors. Washington uses export controls to choke Chinese access to advanced chips. Beijing races to build domestic capacity. Every state in between is being forced to choose sides in a contest they did not start.

By Sunny Peter

/ 12 Nov 2025

Semiconductor Chessboard: How the US-China AI Race is Redrawing Global Alliances and Diplomatic Strategy

The New Scramble for Syria: Turkey, Iran, Russia, and the Gulf States Jockey for Power in Post-Assad Syria

Assad is gone. The scramble has begun. Turkey wants buffer zones. Iran wants its corridor. Russia wants its bases. The Gulf states want influence without commitment. Every outside power has a stake and an agenda. The Syrians are, once again, the last consideration.

By Sunny Peter

/ 8 Nov 2025

The New Scramble for Syria: Turkey, Iran, Russia, and the Gulf States Jockey for Power in Post-Assad Syria

Syria's New Era: Ahmed Al-Sharaa's Historic Washington Visit Marks Potential Shift in US-Middle East Relations

Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s visit to Washington was the most consequential meeting between a Syrian leader and an American president in decades. It signals a potential reset — but the conditions attached, and the history behind them, counsel caution before calling it a breakthrough.

By Sunny Peter

/ 8 Nov 2025

Syria's New Era: Ahmed Al-Sharaa's Historic Washington Visit Marks Potential Shift in US-Middle East Relations

The Great Rebalancing: How Multipolarity Is Transforming International Relations in 2025

The liberal international order is not collapsing — it is being renegotiated. The Global South is asserting agency. China and Russia are offering alternatives. The United States is retracting. What emerges will be less Western, less institutionalised and harder to predict.

By Sunny Peter

/ 8 Nov 2025

The Great Rebalancing: How Multipolarity Is Transforming International Relations in 2025

Sudan After al-Fashir: The Logic of Partition

Al-Fashir has fallen. The Rapid Support Forces now control most of Darfur. What is emerging in Sudan is not chaos — it is a logic. The country is being divided into spheres of control by armed actors with foreign backers. Partition is rarely declared. It is simply allowed to happen.

By Sunny Peter

/ 7 Nov 2025

Sudan After al-Fashir: The Logic of Partition

Gaza Ceasefire Violations: Why October 2025 Agreement Remains Dangerously Fragile

The October ceasefire was signed in good faith by nobody. Both sides entered it with reservations, competing interpretations and no agreed enforcement mechanism. Violations began almost immediately. What was called a ceasefire was, from the start, a temporary reduction in killing.

By Sunny Peter

/ 30 Oct 2025

Gaza Ceasefire Violations: Why October 2025 Agreement Remains Dangerously Fragile

When Algorithms Go to War: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of International Conflict

Autonomous weapons systems are not coming. They are here. AI is already embedded in targeting, surveillance and cyber operations. The question is no longer whether algorithms will make decisions in war — but who is accountable when they get it wrong. Nobody has a good answer.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Oct 2025

When Algorithms Go to War: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of International Conflict

Putin Cancels Russia-Arab Summit as Middle East Influence Wanes

Vladimir Putin cancelled the Russia-Arab summit without explanation. The cancellation is itself the explanation. Russia is overextended, its credibility in the Middle East strained by the Iran conflict, and the Arab states it once courted are recalibrating toward Washington and Beijing.

By Sunny Peter

/ 15 Oct 2025

Putin Cancels Russia-Arab Summit as Middle East Influence Wanes

They Predicted AI Would Rationalize Diplomacy. It Made Everything Worse

The promise was that AI would make diplomacy more precise — faster analysis, better decision support, reduced miscalculation. What happened instead is that it accelerated information overload, amplified disinformation and gave every actor more tools to confuse the picture.

By Sunny Peter

/ 11 Oct 2025

They Predicted AI Would Rationalize Diplomacy. It Made Everything Worse

Kabul Under Pressure: India's Diplomatic Gambit and Pakistan's Airstrikes Reveal Shifting Power Dynamics

India’s quiet engagement with Afghanistan and Pakistan’s airstrikes against TTP positions inside Afghan territory reveal a triangle of competing interests. The Taliban sit at the centre, playing each neighbour against the other with considerable tactical skill.

By Sunny Peter

/ 10 Oct 2025

Kabul Under Pressure: India's Diplomatic Gambit and Pakistan's Airstrikes Reveal Shifting Power Dynamics