The End of Easy Power: America, Iran, and China in a Changing Order
Muhmmad Bilal Iftikhar Khan 18-3-26 History is a wonderful subject. It reveals the mistakes of the past, the experiences of our predecessors, and…
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The Implosion of Liberal Order: An Analysis
By MBI Khan 17-3-26 Something is fracturing in the liberal international order. But the primary architects of this fracture are not China or Rus…
The Pyrrhic Pursuit: Why Dominant Powers Fail Against Asymmetric Will
By: Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan Clausewitz provides the most insightful lens through which to understand the current US and Israeli aggress…
Misreading Iran: How Pressure Strengthened Resistance
By : Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan As the saying goes, “The finest quality of time is its capacity for change, evolution is the hidden face of time.” …
Epistemic Coloniality and the Future of Decoloniality in Pakistan
by Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan P akistan won independence in 1947, nearly 78 years ago. The Muslim political struggle, which initially began as a d…
The Two-Front Entanglement: A Strategic Response to the India-IEA Nexus and the Durand Line Crisis.
The word "strategy" comes from “strategos”, which means "divine spark." This spark blesses one with the art of stratagem, a plan …
The Necessity of Pakistan's Response to IEA
P akistan's recent actions are a justified and necessary response to prolonged aggression. The conflict was initiated when the Taliban administ…
The GPT Gaze: How AI is Turning Our Students to Stone
By Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan We face a grave and gathering threat, one that too many of us either fail to see or, worse, choose to ignore. This …
The Unending Chain: Confronting the Colonialism Within
By Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan We often speak of colonization as a historical period, a chapter of empire that began and ended. But what if we…
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Coloniality and the Illusion of Decolonization: A Reflection on Modi’s Submissive Stance During U.S Visit
Coloniality is not a relic of the past; it is a living, breathing system that perpetuates Western dominance over the Global South. It thrives …
Opinion: Trump’s Strategic Realignment: Neo-Mercantilism, Accommodative Diplomacy, and the Preservation of U.S. Global Hegemony in a Multipolar World
History repeats itself but with variations. History is the story of human nature and how it operates, and in a realist paradigm, man's actions b…
The Polluted Spring: Maintaining Ideological Purity to Defeat Coloniality
A spring surrounded by impurities at its mouth will lose its purity, and the impurities will pollute it from the start, resulting in a polluted …
My Take on Israel Palestine Ceasefire Agreement
This is a temporary ceasefire between Palestine n Israel. Israel has achieved its aims. It was the first round. Israel knew about the October 7, 202…