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Doubts about U.S. credibility are making arms purchases harder to sustain.

Migration enables Uzbek women to renegotiate traditional gender roles and assume greater economic responsibility, even if their experiences are shaped by legal precarity and social vulnerability.

Marcus Tantau from Templeton Research offers fresh insights into the region's economies as they reel from the impacts of the Hormuz oil crisis.

ATIGA review and industrial strategy in an age of geopolitical risk

It clubbed an already passed amendment on women’s reservation with the controversial amendment to delimit electoral boundaries. The ploy flopped.

The region offers a market with untapped potential for streaming entertainment, and one where disposable income is likely to rise in the years to come.

The country's conflict is not forgotten, but has suffered from a perception of irrelevance compared to other unfolding crises.

Whether or not it is approved, Washington's request for overflight access could invite even more controversial proposals in the future.

Deputy Prime Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said that the Hormuz crisis has "demonstrated the advantage" of controlling key transport routes.

With the Iran war simmering, U.S. officials will seek to reassure Asian allies that they remain a reliable and committed partner.

The battle over the next Dalai Lama, between religious tradition and state power, is set to become one of the defining geopolitical stories of the coming decade.

Custodial violence is not episodic but rather structural, woven into the daily architecture of incarceration.

Australia’s frigate purchase will likely end up being more complicated than the “zero-change” framing suggests.

Pyongyang fired “surface-to-surface” missile launches roughly one month before U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. 

China should avoid treating long-established external economic ties as instruments that can be readily deployed or withdrawn.

The Regional Ecological Summit could kickstart a wider climate activism campaign in the greater Central Asian region, or it could just be a short-term, pro-green mirage.

China’s Xiamen bid ups the stakes in the the battle over the secretariat host.

Canberra and Tokyo continue to build closer links with each other, with a shared understanding of the strategic environment, and a high degree of trust

Fishing communities notice everything. But alienation from Delhi means India is losing intelligence input it can’t afford to lose.

Contrary to popular belief, the Mughals did not bring Islamic rule to India — but their rule did shape India’s military, administrative, and geopolitical landscape in ways that endure to this day.