THE QUAD IN FOCUS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Something’s cooking in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Central to any new geopolitical calculus in the region is India, whose strengths and weaknesses have never been in sharper focus.
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THE QUAD IN FOCUS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Something’s cooking in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Central to any new geopolitical calculus in the region is India, whose strengths and weaknesses have never been in sharper focus.
BALOCHISTAN: ASIA’S NEXT HEADACHE
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The last thing the world needs is a fierce new multinational battlefront on the borderlands of South and Central Asia. But it’s getting one anyway.
UPDATE FROM AN AFGHAN MOTHER
A MOTHER, KABUL Recently, readers of the Cosmopolitan Globalist contributed generously to a fundraiser for this family of five Afghan girls. They are still in grave danger. Their mother asked me to share this update with you.
IS WAR AHEAD IN THE PACIFIC?
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The great powers are playing a high-risk shadow game. But such games have a nasty way of coming out of the shadows—with terrible consequences.
AN AFGHAN FAMILY WRITES
A FATHER, KABUL I’m writing this letter from Kabul. I am the head of a family of eight: myself, my wife, my five daughters, and my son. My daughters have become teenage prisoners.
TIME SWOONS FOR THE TALIBAN
NERVANA MAHMOUD, ENGLAND By naming the co-founder of the Taliban one of the world’s 100 most influential leaders, Time Magazine reveals its contempt for Muslims and shows how successfully Islamists have brainwashed gullible Western elites.
A RAUKUS IN THE PACIFIC
ROBIN HÄGGBLOM, HELSINKI France and Australia are both right and wrong in this quarrel, while the US’s behavior just seems strange: Where were their diplomats in all of this? Why didn’t they forestall this imbroglio?
THE FALL OF KABUL
THE COSMOPOLITAN GLOBALISTS An exchange of letters among the editors about the West’s defeat in Afghanistan.
CENTRAL ASIA RETURNS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The US and EU have neglected Central Asia for the past three decades. Russia and China have quietly filled the gap with investments and security ties. They are more than happy to work together to further their joint interests in the region.
IRAN’S DEADLY FIFTH WAVE
ALI KHEYROLLAHI, LONDON Iran is in the grip of a deadly fifth wave. A mere four percent of its population is fully vaccinated. Why did the government fail to import vaccines?
BIDEN BETRAYS AFGHANISTAN
MICHAEL FUMENTO, MANILA It didn’t have to be this way. We could easily have blunted the Taliban’s attack. Our Afghan allies just needed to know we wouldn’t abandon them-but that’s just what we did, leaving those who risked the most for us to have their heads lopped off.
THE AFGHANISTAN DISASTER
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Afghanistan’s past remains its present and its future. Beyond the obvious humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes, Afghanistan’s collapse is a geopolitical disaster in progress, threatening not only its neighbors but every major global power.
THE LONG ROAD TO MYANMAR
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Maps are the key to understanding Myanmar’s geopolitical significance. India, China, and Russia have a stake in the country’s stability—and the US, UK, Japan, and Australia should pay attention.
SILENCING INDIA’S ACADEMICS
AKSHAYA ELIZABETH JOSE, PARIS Sympathizing with student protests in India proved costly for one leading academic. The world’s largest democracy is stifling dissenting voices, and it is not just business as usual.
THE SOUTH ASIAN GORDIAN KNOT
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Russia, and the Taliban form the strands of a tangled geopolitical knot. Untangling these twisted ropes is the key to peace in Asia. But there’s no sword.