Radical Politics

The relationship between India and Iran is often framed through civilizational memory and historical continuity, yet its modern trajectory reveals a far more contingent and uneven reality. Since India’s independence in 1947, engagement between the two countries has been shaped less by sentiment and more by shifting geopolitical pressures, economic necessities, and the gradual centrality […]

Housing has emerged as one of the most revealing indicators of how economic growth, urban transformation, and inequality interact across the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa—and the bloc’s newer members Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Together, these countries account for a significant share of the world’s population, construction […]

China occupies a central and structurally dominant position in this landscape. By the mid-2020s, it accounted for around two thirds of global EV and new energy vehicle sales. Its domestic market for new energy vehicles—including battery electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and increasingly, two- and three-wheeled electric transport—exceeded ten million units annually, with some official counts […]

Multinational organizations outside the framework of formal alliances have long experimented with a distinctive form of coordination, one that seeks influence without hierarchy and cooperation without surrendering sovereignty. Groupings such as the Non-Aligned Movement, ASEAN, the African Union, BRICS, CELAC, Mercosur, and the Latin American Integration Association were never designed to impose uniformity. They emerged […]

In recent years, the language of sovereignty has returned to international forums with an urgency that many had assumed belonged to an earlier era. Statements invoking non-intervention, territorial integrity, and sovereign equality are no longer confined to archival speeches from the Cold War. They are voiced today amid sanctions regimes, regime recognition disputes, and economic […]