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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

Why the “Brain Dead” Transatlantic Alliance Cannot be Revived

While the Transatlantic alliance continues to exist and even wield some military power, last four years have seen it becoming increasingly irrelevant in terms of its ability to shape bi-lateral relations between the US & Russia, EU & Russia and EU & the US. Its ability to influence the outcomes of different conflict zones, including Afghanistan...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

How Russia and China are Reshaping the South Caucasus

The Russia brokered negotiated end of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has laid the basis for a major geo-political transformation of the South Caucasus. While Russia’s role in bringing the military conflict to an end and holding the ceasefire did put it in-charge of the South Caucasus, subsequent developments show how Russia has expanded its role and consolidated its position...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

How Nord Stream 2 Could ‘Liberate’ Europe

More than anything else, riots in Washington D.C. showed that the US politics, while apparently shifting from the ‘mad’ Republicans to the ‘wise’ Democrats, is likely to remain in the grip of intense internal power struggle between what have become ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ Trump groups. The Biden administration is most likely to remain, at least for some time, focused on diffusing...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Joe Biden’s “Asia Pivot 2.0” is Already Here

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The ‘European Challenge’ for the Biden Administration

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Gulf Normalisation is not “Arab Unity”

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Turkey Preparing for a Balancing Act between Russia and the West

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The Geo-politics of EU-China Investment Deal

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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