Opinion

(2025) ‘What is the BRICS “UNIT” – and Could it Really Challenge the US Dollar?‘, The Conversation, December 18.
(2025) ‘As the World Order Shifts, NZ Should “Spread Its Diplomatic Wings” and Look at Joining the BRICS’, The Conversation, September 11.
(2025) ‘Trump Tariffs Make US Even More of a Rogue State‘, Newsroom, August 27.
(2025) ‘The New World Disorder of Donald Trump – and Where It Might Lead’, The Post, June 3. [Print]
(2025) ‘Nationalism and Nukes Make Kashmir the World’s Most Dangerous Flashpoint‘, The Post, May 7. [Print]
(2025) ‘Luxon Meets Modi: Why a “Good” NZ-India Trade Deal is Preferable to a “Perfect” One‘, The Conversation, March 17.
(2025) ‘Elon Musk Thinks the US Should Leave the UN – What if Trump Does It?‘, The Conversation, March 6.
(2025) ‘As Trump Abandons the Old World Order, NZ Must Find its Place in a New “Pax Autocratica”‘, The Conversation, February 11.
(2025) ‘Manufacturing Crisis: The Challenge of Trump 2.0’s “Power in Chaos” for Other Democracies‘, The Conversation, January 20.
(2024) ‘India Is The New China – NZ Needs to See the Bigger Picture in Trade Negotiations‘, The Conversation, December 10.
(2024) ‘Trump Joins Putin, Xi and Modi as the “Four Horsemen” of Global Authoritarianism‘, The Conversation, November 25.
(2024) ‘Deciphering Starmer’s UK Election Victory‘, Sunday Star-Times / The Post, July 7. [Print, p. 25]
(2024) (with Hadley Coull) ‘The Age of the Ouroboros: How Britain Ate Itself‘, Byline Supplement, July 6.
(2024) ‘India Teeters on the Edge of Theocracy‘, Newsroom, June 27.
(2024) ‘Modi’s Domination of Indian Politics Continues’, Asia New Zealand Foundation, June 12.
(2024) ‘Coronavirus Signals the Death Knell of the West‘, Insights International, XXXX X. [re-published from the original 2020 article]
(2024) ‘New Zealand’s Growing Asia-Knowledge Gap‘, Asia New Zealand Foundation, May 8.
(2024) ‘Generation Modi [Generation Modi]’, Makroskop, April 25. [in German]
(2024) ‘Indiens Manöver im Windschatten Chinas [India’s Manoeuvres in China’s Slipstream]’, Makroskop, April 16. [in German]
(2024) ‘As India Votes, Modi Ignores the Violence in Manipur‘, Byline Times, April 10.
(2024) ‘2024: The Year of Democracide‘, Byline Times, March. [Print, p.43]
(2024) ‘Wird Indien Zum Neuen Hauptfeind der USA? [Will India Become the New Main Enemy of the US?]’, Makroskop, February 27. [in German]
(2024) ‘USA und China: Zwei Weltmächte, zwei Außenpolitiken‘ [US and China: Two World Powers, Two Foreign Policies]’, Makroskop, February 6. [in German]
(2024) ‘New Zealand: An Indo-Pacific Power?‘, Asia Media Centre, January 31.
(2024) ‘2024: Das Jahr des “Democracide”? [2024: The Year of Democracide?]’, Makroskop, January 24. [in German]
(2023) ‘BRICS: The Growing Alternative‘, Asia Media Centre, December 13.
(2023) ‘Die Wachsende Macht Des Globalen Südens [The Growing Power of the Global South]’, Makroskop, November 15. [in German]
(2023) (with Mark Bhaskar) ‘The Power of Unintended Consequences: Strategic Naïvety, China and the End of the US Empire‘, The Political Quarterly Blog, October 23.
(2023) ‘State Complicity and Ethnic Cleansing in India‘, Byline Times, October 19.
(2023) ‘Careful Coalitions‘, New Zealand Herald, October 16.
(2023) ‘Disastrous Example‘, The Post (New Zealand), October 15.
(2023) ‘Beware Referendum’, The Press (New Zealand), October 15.
(2023) ‘Indien Lässt Seine Muskeln Spielen [India Flexes Its Muscles]’, Makroskop, September 26. [in German]
(2023) ‘Indiens G20-Vorsitz: Wir Sind Superpower [India’s G20 Presidency: We are a Superpower]’, Makroskop, June 15. [in German]
(2023) ‘Democracy or Autocracy?’, Adbusters, #167, Volume 31, Issue 3, May / June. [Print, pp.56-65]
(2023) ‘Peitsche in der Hand: Die Angebliche Achse Russland-China [The Whip Hand: The Alleged Russia-China Axis]’, Makroskop, May 25. [in German]
(2023) ‘Geopolitical Hypocrisies: TikTok, Insecurity & Sino-US Relations‘, Byline Times, April 20.
(2023) ‘Überwachung: Der Digitale Wettlauf Zwischen Dem Westen Und China [Surveillance: The Digital Race between the West and China]’, Makroskop, April 18. [in German]
(2023) ‘Gefangen Im Strategischen Dreieck [Trapped in The Strategic Triangle]’, Makroskop, March 30. [in German]
(2023) (with Hadley Coull) ‘Feudal Britain: How Brexit Robbed Us of Our Democratic Rights‘, Byline Supplement, March 11.
(2023) ‘New Strategic Realities: A Rising India & Declining Britain‘, Byline Times, March 8.
(2023) ‘One Year On: Shifting Western Perceptions of China and India‘, Foreign Policy Centre, February 24.
(2023) ‘Russia, Putin and the New Geo-Political Order‘, Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) News, February 22.
(2023) ‘Hot Air or Hot Threat? Fear, Balloons and Misperception in Sino-US Relations‘, Transforming Society, February 15.
(2022) ‘After the G20 Summit: UK Responses to a New Balance of Power‘, LSE British Politics and Policy, December 12.
(2022) ‘Forward to the Past?: The Imminent Dangers of Absolute Power in China‘, Byline Times, December 5. [Print, p.23]
(2022) ‘China’s “Xi-Think”: Die Gefahren Der Absoluten Macht [China’s “Xi-Think”: The Dangers of Absolute Power]’, Makroskop, November 9. [in German]
(2022) ‘China: The Dawn of the Authoritarian Century?‘, Byline Times, October 10.
(2022) ‘Auch der Westen Untergrabt Die Liberale Internationale Ordnung [The West is Also Undermining the Liberal International Order]’, Makroskop, August 31. [in German]
(2022) ‘The World’s Democratic Recession is Giving China More Power To Extend Authoritarianism‘, The Conversation, August 30. [and re-printed in the Madras Courier]
(2022) ‘Das Indische Dilemma: Der Aufstieg Chinas und der Asiatische Autoritarismus [The India Dilemma: Rising China and Asian Authoritarianism]’, Makroskop, July 19. [in German]
(2022) ‘Wie Indien Eine Neue Weltordnung Schafft [How India is Creating a New World Order]’, Makroskop, May 10. [in German]
(2022) ‘India is Creating a New World Order – Asia’s Chameleon: India, Russia and the Ukraine Inflection Point‘, Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) News, May 3.
(2021) (with Hadley Coull) ‘Lost at Sea: Untethered Britain in the Age of Emotion‘, Byline Times, November 1.
(2021) ‘The AUKUS Pact Risks Destabilising China, and the World‘, Sunday National, October 10. [Print, pp.4-5 (Seven Days section)]
(2021) (with Hadley Coull) ‘Deception Management: How Mendacity Devoured British Politics‘, Byline Times, October 5.
(2020) ‘Implications of the US Elections for US-China Relations‘, Tehran Times, November 27. [and re-printed in Modern Diplomacy]
(2020) ‘The Last Days of America: An Authoritarian Century Has Started‘, Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) News, November 1.
(2020) ‘A Recessional Power: How Britain’s Claim to Be a Great Power Has Been Fatally Undercut‘, e-International Relations, October 12.
(2020) ‘Clash in the Himalayas: Pulling Back the Curtain on China-India Rivalry‘, Political Studies Association, October 6.
(2020) ‘Hidden Global Power Grab: The Pandemic is Obscuring Dangerous Escalation‘, Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) News, June 26.
(2020) ‘Coronavirus Signals the Death Knell of the West‘, Global Policy Insights, June 3.
(2020) (with Hadley Coull) ‘Monsters We All Helped Create‘, Adbusters #149, Volume 28, Issue 3, May / June. [Print, p.65]
(2020) (with Hadley Coull) ‘Austerity Has Weakened Our Societal Immune System‘, Compass, March 24.
(2020) ‘Balancing Investment and Security [on Chinese Overseas Investment]‘, Sunday Post, March 8. [Print, p.10]
(2020) ‘Must Britain Be More Like China to Halt Coronavirus Outbreak?‘, The Guardian, February 27. [Print, Journal section, p.6]
(2019) ‘Cracks in Xi and Modi’s Shared World Vision‘, East Asia Forum, (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University), December 7.
(2019) (with Hadley Coull) ‘Johnson and Trump – Monsters We All Helped Create‘, The New European #172, December 6. [Print, p.16]
(2019) ‘Chasing the Dragon: Attraction and Dependency in UK-China Relations‘, Asia Dialogue, (University of Nottingham), December 2.
(2019) ‘“Enhancing Strategic Mutual Trust”: Decoding Bilateral Relations at the Second Modi-Xi Informal Summit‘, China-India Brief #149, (Centre on Asia & Globalisation, National University of Singapore), November 26.
(2019) ‘Domestic Issues Hamper India’s Progress‘, The Hindu Business Line, November 20. [Print]
(2019) ‘India as a Great Power: Potential Versus Reality‘, India in Transition Series, (Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania), November 18.
(2019) ‘China and India Set to Dominate the 21st Century‘, Oxford Reference, September 11.
(2019) ‘India and China, Two Peas in a Pod‘, East Asia Forum, (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University), January 24.
(2018) ‘What Will Happen to the Old World Order as China Continues to Rise?‘, Sunday National, October 14, 4-5 (in Seven Days Section). [Print]
(2018) ‘The US and North Korea Must Both Make Sacrifices for Peace‘, The Independent, April 30, 37. [Print]
(2018) ‘Korea Talks May Break Deadlock But Put Pressure on US President‘, The Herald (Glasgow), April 27, 14. [Print]
(2018) ‘Interconnection in China and India’s Quests to Become Great Powers‘, China-India Brief #111, (Centre on Asia & Globalisation, National University of Singapore), March 13.
(2018) ‘There May Be a Grand Bargain, But It’s Unlikely The North Will Give Up Nuclear Weapons‘, The Herald (Glasgow), March 10, 17. [Print]
(2017) ‘North Korea Crisis: ‘We Must Hope Humility Can take Us Back From The Brink”‘, The Courier, August 10, 13. [Print]
(2017) ‘Perception and Evolution in the Making of China and India as Great Powers‘, e-International Relations, May 25. [reposted in IAPS Dialogue, July 24]
(2017) ‘North Korea Crisis‘, Sunday Post, April 16, 14-15. [Print]
(2017) ‘The Ascendancy of China and India‘, Polity Press, April 12.
(2017) ‘China and India’s Shared Pathway to Great Power‘, The Diplomat, April 6.
(2017) ‘The US-China-India Triad: Shifting Power Balances’, King’s College London Dialogue, February. [Print]
(2017) ‘Agenda: Donald Trump’s Hostility towards China Could End in a Full-Blown Conflict‘, The Herald (Glasgow), January 18, 17. [Print]
(2015) ‘Stability in South Asia: Terrorism Will Persist‘, The Cipher Brief, November 9.
(2015) ‘India’s Neighbourhood Policy Post-2014‘, Foreign Policy Research Centre (FPRC) Journal (New Delhi), 21 (1): 37-38.
(2015) ‘Time for None of the Above‘, openDemocracy, January 5. [cited by the Parliamentary Political and Constitutional Reform Committee report on ‘Voter Engagement in the UK‘, February 5 2015]
(2014) ‘UK-India Relations: The Courtier and the Courted’, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 6.
(2014) ‘What Kind of Great Power Does India Wish to Become?‘, Polity Press, June 2.
(2014) ‘How Narendra Modi Will Tackle Israel, Russia, Pakistan – and Obama‘, International Business Times, May 16.
(2014) ‘Indian Elections: BJP Victory to Bring a More Vocal India‘, International Business Times, May 12.
(2013) ‘World Should Be Worried About the Possible Results of this Sabre-Rattling [Korean Nuclear Crisis]‘, The Scotsman, April 5, 7. [Print]
(2011) ‘Strong US-EU Ties Key to Balancing Asia‘, Atlantic-Community, November 15. [cited in Atlantic-Community Memo 36].
(2011) ‘Defying the Modus Operandi: Anna Hazare, Corruption and Politics in India‘, e-International Relations, September 12.
(2010) ‘Wen’s Delhi Visit – China, India and Embryonic Multipolarity‘, Opinion Asia, December 21.
(2010) ‘Emerged India: Enter a Great Power‘, openDemocracy, November 11.
(2010) ‘Something Special? Perspectives on a New Era of UK-India Relations‘, Opinion Asia, August 7.