Category: Political Science

Expanding role of China in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO)
By Pamkhuila Shaiza on November 21, 2015 No Comments

China is reported to have deployed troops to UNPKO for the first time in 1989, when she sent 20 Chinese military observers as part of the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG)

 
Europe’s struggle with asylum seekers and illegal migration
By Pamkhuila Shaiza on September 9, 2015 No Comments

Recent studies by the International Organization for Migration show that Europe has become the most dangerous destination for migrants in the world and the Mediterranean Sea, the most dangerous place for border-crossing [1].

 
Removal of economic sanctions against Iran can crush ISIS
By Priya Chetty on August 20, 2015 No Comments

Earlier this month Obama-led America shocked the world with the removal of economic sanctions against Iran, ending a 36-year old feud between the two nations.

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The World remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing
By Priya Chetty on August 7, 2015 No Comments

During the World War II, August of 1945, the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which are in Japan (Shuk-ting and Qiu 2013).

 
Unipolar, bipolar and multipolar World order
By Priya Chetty on July 25, 2015 2 Comments

The downfall of the Soviet Union in December 1991 drew the curtain from a bipolar world dominated by the former and the U.S. for nearly half century and led to rise of speculations regarding the next likely world order.

 
Bangladesh: A study on its radical Islamism and plight of free-thinkers
By Priya Chetty on May 28, 2015 No Comments

Bangladesh emerged as an outcome of “Bengali Nationalism”, formed to overthrow the hegemony of West Pakistan and to end the latter’s attempt of economic exploitation, religious regression and dominance over the “Political Voice” of the former.

 
India’s craving for Uranium rich nuclear energy
By Priya Chetty on May 7, 2015 No Comments

India in the month of April 2015 announced that it would buy $280 million worth of Uranium from Canada over a span of 5 years, thus ending a 40-year silent enmity they shared. The enmity was over India’s unwarranted use of Canadian technology to build nuclear weapons, which didn’t go down well with the Canadians.

 
Understanding Russia’s role and interests in Ukraine
By Priya Chetty on April 16, 2015 No Comments

The relations between the two economies; Russia and Ukraine can be traced back to the 1990s, after it became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 established the need for economic and security relationships between the two nations.

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