Quiet Realignments in The Third World

West and South Asia’s security order is being rewritten …


By: Anand Kumar

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Despite the current conflagration in the Middle East, the security architecture of West and South Asia is undergoing a quiet but consequential transformation, driven less by ideology than by strategic necessity. What is emerging is not a return to rigid Cold War–style blocs, but a fluid realignment shaped by…