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Changing Dynamics of Great Power Politics

Great power politics have always been changing since states began establishing relations amongst each other. Since the time of the Greeks, where Athens and Sparta vied for the representation of the whole of Greece to the time of the Roman Empire when it was at its height with several small states and principalities under its influence to the more modern European colonial era and the 2 World Wars. The Cold War period pitched two of the strongest powers against each other with the whole world as their battlefield. The Soviet Union and the USA flexed their military and economic might against each other in numerous open or proxy conflicts against each other such as Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Berlin. After the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, USA became the sole superpower in the world. This world order remains till date. However the dynamics of great power politics are ever-changing and the world might see yet another change in the world order as we now se...

Sino-Indian Conflict and The Tipping Point

History The conflict stretches back to at least 1914, when representatives from Britain, the Republic of China and Tibet gathered in Simla, in what is now India, to negotiate a treaty that would determine the status of Tibet and effectively settle the borders between China and British India. India maintains that the McMahon Line, a 550-mile frontier that extends through the Himalayas, is the official legal border between China and India. But China has never accepted it. Tensions rose throughout the 1950s. The Chinese insisted that Tibet was never independent and could not have signed a treaty creating an international border. China sought to control critical roadways near its western frontier in Xinjiang, while India and its Western allies saw any attempts at Chinese incursion as part of a wider plot to export Maoist-style Communism across the region. By 1962, war had broken out. Chinese troops crossed the McMahon Line and took up positions deep in Indian Territory, captur...

The Great American Myth

Americans take pride in their “Democratic Values” and American Presidents have repeatedly called themselves “Champions of Democracy”. Heck, they even fought a 44 year long Cold War to promote Democracy in the world against the Communist bloc led by the former USSR. But as liberal as it may seem, this was not the actual cause of their fight against the Soviets, or the reason for the original 13 colonies’ War of Independence against the British monarchy. All the Founding Fathers were rich White Europeans who came to escape the monarchical rulers. After consulting the Merriam-Webster dictionary, I have realized that USA is more of a Plutocracy rather than a Democracy. It is rarely mentioned, that the Constitution the founders crafted was designed to secure economic power for themselves, and that economic power has been the ultimate foundation of political power for all of human history. Political power ultimately resides with those who control our access to a means of living. When...

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