Features

While the focus on Afghanistan tends to revolve around geopolitical tensions and security concerns, the slow erosion of the urban middle class is sending the country decades backward.

The two nations are friendly neighbors. Why, then, do Indian troops so frequently use lethal force along the border? 

From prison, disgraced former Prime Minister Najib Razak is plotting an unlikely political comeback. Don't rule it out.

Despite lofty declarations of mutual interests in the Arctic, there have been significant cracks in this regional relationship. 

Japan looks set to end negative interest rates for the first time in eight years. 

China’s impressive topline growth figures mask underlying disparities and societal unease. 

As China has increased its political and economic cooperation with Latin America, it has also expanded its space engagement with the region.

It has enacted legislation to implement its vision and goals for a more centralized, tough-on-terrorism, family-oriented, and proudly Hindu state.

A new approach to utilizing the potential of the two-country railway line has already been producing several of the desired results. A people-centered turn is yet to come.

The plan acknowledges the severe disparity in living conditions between Pyongyang and the rest of the country – and the resulting public discontent.

Lessons from the first cold war could help states in the second. So could recognizing what's changed.

Shrimp farming along the Mekong may be an economic win in the short term, but it is ultimately unsustainable.