Author: PINAK RANJAN CHAKRAVARTY

In the latest act of violation of international law, the USA President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela, including the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, is the most egregious example. The Maduros will be arraigned in a USA law court on charges of drug smuggling. The USA has done it before in Panama when it kidnapped and imprisoned former dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989. On the false pretext of possession of nuclear weapons, the USA invaded Iraq and ousted President Saddam Hussein. The former president of Honduras was imprisoned in the USA for drug smuggling. Thereafter, another…

India’s neighbourhood has once again begun to feel the tremors of regime change and internal conflict. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan have all witnessed political churning and social upheavals. India cannot remain isolated from such developments, since the spillover of political turbulence inevitably affects its geopolitical and geoeconomic interests. In Bangladesh and Nepal alike, elected governments were unseated through movements driven by students and young protesters. These developments have strained bilateral ties and posed significant challenges to India’s “Neighbourhood First” policy. Though such periodic upheavals often have domestic origins, they also provide opportunities for insidious external intervention aimed at furthering…