Dr.Rao VBJ Chelikani The futility of vying to be a 'big power' is warned by the outgoing United Nations SecretaryGeneral António Guterres, in an interview with The Hindu on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi in September 2026. He observed that while global power relations are deeply distorted, superpowers refuse to recognise the inherent limits of their might. By issuing such a statement in India, he advises India not to imitate them. At the opening of the 81st General Assembly of the United Nations, some countries, i…
Dr.Rao VBJ Chelikani The Global Risks Report presented before the World Economic Forum at Davos-25 identifies the state-based armed conflict as one of the five risks that require immediate attention. The realpolitik approach of conducting diplomatic or political negotiations with other states is based traditionally on the assumption that each state should pursue "strategic autonomy" to satisfy its own national interests exclusively. That was how marriages were arranged among the royal families in the past. No wonder, the current PO…
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani Land has been the common heritage of humankind to be enjoyed by all along with other live organisms which have been enjoying this common property much before the human species. Before becoming sedentary, the tribes of human beings lived pastoral life. It means they wandered in search of green pastures as far as they could go and continued till they faced stronger resistance. It is also a historical fact that whichever group and whoever individual is adventurous and stronger has been occupying whatever they wan…
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