The elections to the House of Commons, held on 28 April, have produced results close to what the pollsters predicted – but not quite. At the time of this writing, projections by Elections Canada gave 169 (of 343) seats to the Liberal Party, denying it a clear majority of 172. The Conservatives are projected to win 144 seats, leaving the 22-person Bloc Québécois (BQ) or other MPs to prop up the new government. The previous minority Liberal government received support from read more

Multipolarity is gaining in salience around the world. It has been on the agenda of the developing countries since 1955 when the Asian-African conference in Bandung, Indonesia was held. As that 70th anniversary approaches on 18th April, the relevance of its equal power distribution concept, is being acknowledged even by the unipolarists, reflecting an understanding of a world in profound transition. Within the early days of his administration, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, called unipolarity “an anomaly” and read more

Why bother with emerging middle powers when most of the international discussion since Donald Trump took office for the second time is dominated by the great-power politics of the United States and its global implications? Because the world is undergoing profound transformations that are not being driven only by the United States, China or Russia. Small and medium-sized states no longer participate in global affairs at the whim of great powers: they are carving out a legitimate place for themselves read more

In April 1955, a decade after World War II ended, the world was completely bipolar and divided into two blocs – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led by the U.S. and the Warsaw Pact led by the Soviet Union. Coping with an unprecedented polarisation, a few Asian leaders felt bold enough to convene 29 nations from Asia and Africa to participate in the first-ever Asian-African Conference held in Bandung, near Jakarta – the Indonesian capital. This historic meeting devised and declared the read more