January 14, 2026

Q1: On Fluid Global and Regional Issues
Assessment of the current and evolving situation must be undertaken against the backdrop of the Cold War that was supplanted by the unipolar global order in 1991 and that has prevailed over the past three decades. What transpired during the last three decades is not necessarily congruent with what Fukuyama and Huntington envisaged. The fact is US pre-eminence and pronounced aspirations of all-rounded supremacy – in the economic, technological, and military domains – has not been realised. Its influence and purported dominance in all these parameters had been declining; the downward trajectory evident for many years…