Syed Wajahat Ali

Echoes of Empire: South Asia’s Unique Pluralism and Conflict
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- May 25, 2025
Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in the context of Latin American solitude and the irony of Spanish colonialism, “The interpretation of our reality through patterns not…

Delusions of Modern Warfare: Afghanistan, A Case Study
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- April 13, 2025
Modern warfare tends to depart from the post-Napoleonic, Clausewitzian theory that war is a rational expression of national interest. Paradoxically, technology, despite adding sophistication and…

NATO in 21st Century: War, Wine, and the Ocean
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- March 4, 2025
SAMUEL P Huntington predicted in 2004 that because the US corporate elite had become global cosmopolitan citizens instead of American nationalists, their indifference would lead…

Homocentric Climate Action: Siberian Cranes & My Coffee
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- February 2, 2025
AFTER engrossing negotiations between 195 parties grappling with the basic question of how to fund climate action on the last day of COP 29, I…

Transatlantic Liberalism and American Response–A Great Disconnect
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- November 17, 2024
Donald Trump’s resounding return to the White House, Congress, and Senate has triggered a seismic shift in American bureaucratic architecture, possibly the third most after…

Beyond the Plot: Philosophy of Stories and Geopolitics
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- October 20, 2024
The Story of Stories: To seek justification for their frantic temporality in impossibleness of this universe, humans have, since the cognitive revolution, identified themselves and…

The Eurasian Vision: SCO’s Strategic Imperative
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- October 16, 2024
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) represents a huge, contiguous landmass stretching from the Volga River to the Indo-Gangetic Plain, enveloping 80 percent of Eurasia and home…

Homo sapien’s Contempt, Climate and Nuclear Bombs
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- August 2, 2024
HOMO sapiens forget that contempt or compassion, like dropping a nuclear bomb or seeding a plant, the Earth never forgets in any case. The exactitude…

The European Union at the Crossroads
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- June 20, 2024
MILLIONS of Europeans across 27 countries voted to elect the 720 Members of the European Parliament from 6th to 9th of June. The EU parliament…

Defending the International Criminal Court
- By Syed Wajahat Ali
- May 29, 2024
America should punish the ICC and put Karim Khan back in his place. If the ICC is allowed to threaten Israel’s leaders, we know that…