The 2026 Iran war reveals how modern conflict is shaped by fused intelligence—HUMINT, technical surveillance, and AI—accelerating warfare while exposing new vulnerabilities in escalation control and decision-making ...
Shifts in US strategy, the erosion of Iran’s regional power, and the Gulf’s growing economic momentum may collectively create new opportunities for stability in the Middle East ...
BRICS promotes a cooperative, multipolar order; its strength lies in unity, autonomy, and moving beyond Western-dominated systems despite internal and external challenges ...
In future conflicts, the side that better prepares its people—not just its machines—will hold the advantage ...
Africa must shift from managing aid and debt to designing diversified capital structures that anchor growth in domestic finance and genuine risk-sharing ...
Rapid digitalisation in the Middle East has widened cyber vulnerabilities, making regional cooperation, domestic capacity-building, and rights-based governance central to cybersecurity ...
REEs have become a central arena of US–China strategic rivalry, with China’s dominance across the full production cycle giving it powerful economic and military leverage against the US ...
As much of the Middle East remains fractured, the Gulf is leveraging aviation, maritime power, infrastructure, and digital networks to transform connectivity into a new source of geopolitical influence ...
Amid rising power politics and a weakening multilateral system, Agenda 2030 is faltering. Emerging powers must forge alliances to revive SDG progress beyond 2030. ...
Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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