Global

International institutions, great power competition, international law and the forces shaping world order. Pieces here cover the United Nations, the international courts, multilateral diplomacy and the systemic pressures on the rules-based order — stories that belong to no single geography but implicate all of them.

Future of War: How Technology Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Conflict

Drones, cyberweapons, autonomous systems, hypersonic missiles — the battlefield of the 21st century looks nothing like the 20th. War is becoming faster, cheaper and more deniable. The rules governing armed conflict have not kept pace. That gap is dangerous.

By Sunny Peter

/ 19 Aug 2025

Future of War: How Technology Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Conflict

Balance of Power: Why Classical Theory Still Shapes Our Multipolar World

The balance of power is the oldest idea in international relations and the most durable. States build alliances to check rivals. Hegemons overreach. Countervailing coalitions form. The names change. The logic does not. Classical theory is not history — it is the present.

By Sunny Peter

/ 19 Aug 2025

Balance of Power: Why Classical Theory Still Shapes Our Multipolar World

Soft Power vs. Hard Power: Which Matters More in Global Politics Today?

Joseph Nye coined soft power to describe influence without coercion — culture, diplomacy, attraction. Decades later it is both more relevant and more contested. In an era of weaponised narratives and great power competition, the line between soft and hard has blurred.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Soft Power vs. Hard Power: Which Matters More in Global Politics Today?

Privatization of Conflict: The Growing Role of Mercenaries and PMCs in World Affairs

Wagner in Africa. Blackwater in Iraq. Private military companies are not a new phenomenon — but their scale and influence are. States are outsourcing war because it is cheaper, deniable and harder to hold to account. That is precisely the problem.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Privatization of Conflict: The Growing Role of Mercenaries and PMCs in World Affairs

Water Wars & Resource Diplomacy: How Transboundary Rivers Shape 21st Century Conflict and Cooperation

The Nile, the Indus, the Mekong — rivers do not respect borders. As populations grow and glaciers shrink, the states sharing these waters face a stark choice: negotiate or fight. The history of transboundary rivers is a history of both, often simultaneously.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Water Wars & Resource Diplomacy: How Transboundary Rivers Shape 21st Century Conflict and Cooperation

New Great Game: Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic in an Era of Climate Change

Melting ice is opening new shipping routes, exposing new mineral deposits and creating new frontlines. Russia, China, the United States and NATO are all staking claims at the poles. What was once wilderness is becoming the next theatre of great power competition.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

New Great Game: Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic in an Era of Climate Change

Geopolitics of AI: How Technology is Rewiring Global Power Structures

Artificial intelligence is not merely a technological revolution. It is a power revolution. Whoever leads in AI leads in surveillance, military capability and economic productivity. The race between Washington and Beijing is not about chips. It is about the future of power.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Geopolitics of AI: How Technology is Rewiring Global Power Structures

Economic Statecraft: When Trade Becomes a Weapon

Sanctions, tariffs, export controls, debt diplomacy — economic tools have always had geopolitical uses. What has changed is the scale and precision. The United States weaponises the dollar. China weaponises supply chains. Trade is no longer just commerce.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Economic Statecraft: When Trade Becomes a Weapon

Climate Security: How Environmental Change is Redefining Geopolitics and International Diplomacy

Climate change is not an environmental issue that occasionally touches foreign policy. It is a foreign policy crisis occasionally discussed at environmental summits. The wrong framing produces the wrong response — and every year of delay makes the right response harder to find.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Climate Security: How Environmental Change is Redefining Geopolitics and International Diplomacy

Evolution of Diplomacy: From Westphalia to the Digital Age

Modern diplomacy was born in 1648, when exhausted European powers agreed that sovereignty mattered. Since then it has survived empires, revolutions and two world wars. Now it faces its strangest challenge yet — a world where a tweet can undo a treaty.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Evolution of Diplomacy: From Westphalia to the Digital Age

Understanding Multipolarity: Why the Unipolar Moment is Over

The United States dominated the post-Cold War order for thirty years. That era is over. Power is diffusing to Beijing, Moscow, New Delhi and beyond. Understanding multipolarity is not optional — it is the essential framework for reading the world as it actually is.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

Understanding Multipolarity: Why the Unipolar Moment is Over

UN at a Crossroads: Can Multilateralism Survive the 21st Century?

The institutions built after 1945 were designed for a world that no longer exists. The UN Security Council is paralysed by veto. The WTO is hollowed out. Multilateralism is not dead — but it is on life support, and the machine keeping it alive is showing cracks.

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Aug 2025

UN at a Crossroads: Can Multilateralism Survive the 21st Century?