Shashank Joshi

Are we look­ing at a new era of Egypt­ian re­gion­al ac­tivism?

The flow of US weapon­ry to In­dia to ‘re­bal­ance’ Asia – at a price, of course.

Can west­ern gov­ern­ments per­suade their peo­ple that af­ter years of war, Afghanistan must stay on fi­nan­cial life-sup­port?

If diplo­ma­cy fails and Iran’s nu­clear pro­gramme re­sumes, the prospect of an Is­raeli or US war re­turns to the pic­ture.

Modi’s chal­lenge is the same as it al­ways was; to im­prove In­dia’s abil­i­ty to de­tect and dis­rupt terr

We are used to so-called ter­ror­ist states; but state-like ter­ror­ists have been rar­er.

Even if ISIL is halt­ed be­fore it reach­es Bagh­dad, it has left vir­tu­al­ly every re­gion­al ac­tor scram­bling for a re­sponse.

Hec­tor­ing speech­es and an ac­ri­mo­nious mood mark open­ing ses­sions of Syr­i­an peace talks in Switzer­land.

Be­trayed by the West’s deal with Tehran, Sau­di Ara­bia is weigh­ing its op­tions.