The Global Politics

There is something quietly unsettling about the times we inhabit not because of a singular crisis, but because distance has dissolved into immediacy. A transport owner recalculates costs as fuel fluctuates, payments stall, and margins narrow; he is not tracking geopolitics, yet geopolitics is embedded in every figure before him. This is the defining condition of the present: the global no longer remains abstract but manifests directly in the everyday. Where world affairs once

Srishti Pandey Editor- TGP In a world where global influence is increasingly defined by economic strength and democratic resilience, the...

Chief Editor- Srishti Shankar Pandey The recent vote at the United Nations, in which the United States and Russia stood together in...

Chief Editor- Srishti Shankar Pandey I n the past decade, the world has witnessed a surge of populist leaders and movements that have...

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Where are we now? From Samuel Huntington’s prognosis of a ‘clash of civilizations’ to Francis Fukuyama’s foreboding of an ‘end of...