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Asia Watch – A bimonthly column by Professor Swaran Singh in which he analyses major developments across Asia

Swaran Singh

(Professor Swaran Singh teaches disarmament and diplomacy at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) in 2022-23 and at the School of International Studies, Beijing University. A keen observer of China, Professor Singh has been an Asia Fellow (2001-2002) and has held several visiting professorships in China, UPEACE and other universities.)

Copyright@ 2025 thePolity.co.in https://thepolity.co.in/article/202?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExOHczdkwxcUxqczVJd2l3awEejXohvhq3l_t-DtXTgk6E1pfJ4y47_w1kRM8U4RBXk7yH9IezeRn-eIMMpwU_aem_ulNQDtDrYmLGDXB87H_hIQ (Reposted at RIEAS web site on 19 July 2025)

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History is replete with instances of West-induced regime changes across West Asia, including in Iran. It was an American sleight of hand that derailed the democratic process in Iran, which eventually brought the current Islamic regime to power. By using the nuclear bogey to dismantle the regime in Tehran, the US-Israeli military action only reminds us of the campaign against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, citing his chemical and biological weaponry. If the outcome of the campaign in Iraq was political instability, chaos and a rise of extremism, the result might be no different in Iran as well. While the Khamenei-led order might still survive, it is doubtful whether the Iranian polity is prepared to absorb a radical political transformation… Read more

Yubaraj Das
(Currently working as a Researcher at Indic Researchers Forum INDICRF, India)

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The Arab World which is known for its strict and unchanging government. After 2011, it went through a drastic power transformation with an unprecedented wave of protests and citizen demands. Some countries witnessed large-scale peaceful demonstrations leading to a shift in their ruling regime. .. Read more

Damjan Krnjević Mišković
(Former Senior Serbian and UN official, is Professor of Practice at ADA University; Director for Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications at its Institute for Development and Diplomacy; and Co-Editor of Baku Dialogues, the views expressed in this essay are his own)

Copyright @ https://bakudialogues.ada.edu.az/articles/on-some-conceptual-advantages-of-the-term-silk-road-region-12-07-2023 - (Baku Dialogues Journal) – Published at RIEAS (www.rieas.gr) on 29 July 2023.

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One part of the internal deliberations involving the re launch of Baku Dialogues that took place in the second and third quarters of 2020 focused on the journal’s subtitle; another revolved around the language of our Editorial Statement, which we published in the Fall 2020 edition that ended the publication’s hiatus. What substantively held together these two threads was the question of what to call the part of the world in which Azerbaijan is located….Read more  

Alyona Pavlenko
(Journalist)

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Publication date at RIEAS (www.rieas.gr) 7 May 2023

SHUSHA, Azerbaijan, May 3. Azerbaijan is an important partner for European countries today, Director at the Research Institute for European and American Studies, John Nomikos told Trend on the sidelines of the conference held in Shusha on the "Formation of the geopolitics of Greater Eurasia: from the past to the present and the future" topic, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Azerbaijan's national leader Heydar Aliyev.... Read more

Abhinandan Mishra
(A New Delhi based senior journalist, India)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 5 September 2021

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The swift takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban is a closed chapter now. How it happened and why it was not anticipated not just by U.S officials but officials of other countries including India, will be analyzed and taught as a lesson in the coming years to future and serving Intelligence officers and other workings in similar roles.... Read more

Raagini Sharma
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 29 August 2021

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1. Abstract

The world is confronting a risk of the power vacuum that may loom large on its canvas for a long time. The Vacuum is created in light of the fact that Europe and the USA are in a mode of gradual relative decay vis-a-vis the accelerated growth of the rising powers. The Rising powers are effectively testing western powers. Particularly China as an independent entity and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as an international group are presenting tough challenges to the Western powers. .. Read more