Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 23:03
Paper No. 6513 Dated 20-Nov-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The Middle East chess-board in 2019is marked by intense power rivalries between the regional powers and a rearrangement of chess pieces by the two Major Powers----United States and Russia—traditional rivals vying for influence in this volatile region of the world which has been in a state of strife since end of First World War 1919 when new nations were carved out of the old Ottoman Empire.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 02:53
Paper No. 6560 Dated 10-July-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Middle East 2019 geopolitical landscape presents unprecedented dilemmas challenging the very fundamentals of US policy formulations. United States can ill-afford to ignore the predominance of non-Arab regional powers and prop alternative regional powers devoid of critically significant basic attributes of power.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 08:51
Paper No. 6430 Dated 26-Sept-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
In the closing months of 2018, the Middle East security environment presents the spectacle of an intense power struggle going on among the major regional powers like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel besides the geopolitical and military involvement of the traditional external powers like the United States and China that compulsively get drawn into Middle East regional conflicts on opposing sides.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 01/12/2018 - 06:14
Paper No. 6339 Dated 12-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The ongoing strategic churning in Middle East portends an unpredictable course for regional power tussles which are not only spawning volatility amongst the United States and Russia but also generates geopolitical challenges for India and Pakistan, based on South Asian and Middle East regional contiguity.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 17:09
Paper No. 6268 Dated 12th June 2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 05:06
Paper No. 6079 Dated 25-Feb-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
China foisted Cold War II on the United States in the first decade of the 21st Century and which has in 2015 assumed clearer contours and that leads to the crucial question whether the United States can afford a concurrent revival of Cold War I with Russia in support of Saudi Arabia’s and Turkey’s regional power-play with Iran.
