As International Crisis Group says, in Sri Lanka the President and the parliament have “historically imposed severe limits on courts' jurisdiction, deeply undermining their authority to prevent abusive detention and torture.” However, President AK Dissanayaka’s National People’s Power (NPP) government, seems to be against such coercive misuse of state...
The recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Washington has demonstrated a significant paradox in contemporary international politics: the two superpowers remain strategic competitors, yet neither side could afford to let their rivalry spiral into...
The world has witnessed many technological revolutions in past centuries. While they rewrote the way we function and conduct our lives, Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises deeper, consequential changes. The truth is that AI has come to occupy a central space in every sphere of human activity. From a hi-tech specialty tool, it has transmogrified into a deep...
Over the past two weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has staged a remarkable diplomatic blitz. Across three major gatherings in Bishkek, Vladivostok and New Delhi, as well as during Vietnamese leader To Lam’s state visit to Moscow, Putin met a succession of heads of state from across Asia and the wider Global South. Among them were the leaders of China,...
Quietly, President Emmanuel Macron has aligned his foreign policy with that of the Anglo-Saxon powers. This was the price to pay for securing joint command of NATO following the US withdrawal from Europe. As a pledge of commitment, he unilaterally decided to send our troops to participate in a religious war against the Yemeni...
On 4 October Brazil will hold an election which involves more than just the choice between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro. It is a struggle concerning sovereignty, democracy and Brazil’s position in a rapidly changing world, with Washington keeping a close...
The conflicts between Catalonia and the central government in Madrid are among the multiple issues in which the EU is directly involved since 1986, when Spain became a member-state of the European Community (EC). The fundamental issues in the relations between Barcelona and Madrid...