The Global Politics

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

Despite the brutal crackdown on protests, resentment at the government continues to simmer. The issue has moved beyond the hijab, said...

In Iran, the hijab law has typically been enforced by the so-called morality police. They would stop women in the streets, detain them...

TEHRAN, Iran – You see it as soon as you land at the airport: posters telling women to keep their headscarves on. They're everywhere in...

Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign was bookended by periods of great uncertainty about Britain’s role on the world stage. The queen, who...

It’s been almost 15 months since for the first time India went under a national lockdown, in March 2020, to control the spread of...

Seldom in history, there occurs a natural experiment that allows posterity to draw timeless lessons on political discourse, governance...

‘Hind,Hindu, Hindutva’ How Hindutva Became a Political Weapon in India. As an ideology, Hindu nationalism is not even 100 years old—but...

Vladimir Lenin, in the wake of the Russian revolution, had famously said that ‘there are decades when nothing happens, and then there...

Secularism in India: an endangered species? ‘Anekta main hi ekta hai’ (Unity in Diversity), as a rhetorical political trope and a proxy...

The election of Donald Trump in the US, vote for Brexit, and beef eating related lynchings' in India; the transnational specter of...

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

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring...