Author Archive: M.K. Bhadrakumar

M.K. Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat.
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Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle

Released for Syndication: 06/12/2020

The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in...

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NATO Returns to Libya to Challenge Russia

Released for Syndication: 06/01/2020

The great game in Libya has begun surging with the United States shedding its strategic ambivalence and resorting to a proactive role. At the...

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How Russia Is Botching Its Alliance With Syria

Released for Syndication: 05/19/2020

Russia’s relationships with its client states have never been easy. Of course, managing client states is always a complicated exercise. The Kremlin’s cupboard is...

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What’s Driving Trump’s Political Attacks on China

Released for Syndication: 05/05/2020

U.S. President Donald Trump has tied himself and onlookers in knots by his alternating encomiums for and diatribes against China over COVID-19 in the...

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Trump’s Threat to Iran Has a Hollow, Angsty Ring

Released for Syndication: 05/01/2020

A tweet by the U.S. President Donald Trump on April 22 said, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy...

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Why the OPEC+ Deal Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Released for Syndication: 04/17/2020

A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In...

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Don’t Threaten Afghans—It Will Be Counterproductive

Released for Syndication: 04/10/2020

The principal deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) in the U.S. State Department, Alice Wells, dropped a...

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Has America Reached Its Endgame in Afghanistan?

Released for Syndication: 03/27/2020

In an extraordinary statement titled “On the Political Impasse in Afghanistan,” Washington has admitted to the failure of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s mission...

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The Prospect of Peace in Afghanistan Is Real—And Pakistan Is the Key Player

Released for Syndication: 03/02/2020

The chasm between illusion and reality in politics remains perennial. Wars seldom ended according to the script of peace agreements. The fall of Saigon...

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A World No Longer Shaped by Atlantic Powers

Released for Syndication: 02/28/2020

The annual Munich Security Conference that took place February 14-16 this year turned out to be an iconic event, drawing comparison with the one...

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