Dr. Imran Khalid
From Retaliation to Resilience: The Global South’s Economic Pivot
It’s hard to decide what’s more surreal: that the United States is threatening 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports…
Steady, Not Slow: How China’s Economy is Rewiring for Resilience
It’s easy to miss the quiet revolutions. The ones that unfold not with fireworks or fanfare, but with…
Boiling Point: Why the Heatwave Is a Moral Emergency
Europe is melting, and not in the romantic, summer-in-Provence kind of way. Rome just touched 46 degrees Celsius…
NATO’s Identity Crisis in The Hague
When the NATO summit convenes in The Hague on June 24–25, it will do so in the long…
The London Consensus: Are the U.S. and China Opting for Pragmatism?
For all the noisy saber-rattling that has characterized Washington’s approach to Beijing in recent years - tariff tantrums, tech blockades,…
Trumpism Without Borders: What Poland’s Election Reveals About Europe
By all appearances, Karol Nawrocki’s wafer-thin victory in Poland’s presidential election does not merely reflect the political schisms…
China’s Soft Power Pivot: IOMed and the Future of Dispute Resolution
In an international climate marred by deepening fissures and geopolitical fault lines, the idea of resolving disputes through…
Brokering Illusions: Trump, Putin, and a Frozen Conflict
When diplomacy mimics theatre and the war drums continue to thunder in the background, it becomes increasingly difficult…
Pragmatism over Posturing: Germany’s China Policy Under Merz
Friedrich Merz’s ascent to the German chancellorship marks a significant political transition at a moment of extraordinary global…
Dollar Hegemony Meets the Forge of Reindustrialization
There is a curious irony at the heart of America’s current economic strategy - one that even its…
The IMF’s Epitaph for the Descending Economic Uncertainty
For decades, the international trading system has functioned, however imperfectly, as the backbone of global economic integration. Built on a…
George Simion Convert Dissent into Power?
In an era of mounting European anxiety over the populist wave, Romania has now joined the fray with…
From Water to War: India and Pakistan’s Escalation Demands Global Alarm
Once again, India and Pakistan are veering toward a dangerous precipice. This time triggered not by border skirmishes…
Varoufakis warns Europe loses in trade war
In a world already defined by deep fragmentation and strategic distrust, the Trump administration’s latest foray into aggressive…
Strategic Amnesia: How Trump’s Tariffs Dismantled U.S. Trade Credibility
President Donald Trump’s erratic dance with tariffs continues to confound not just global markets but even his team.…