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From Bans to Business: How Afghan Women Use Social Commerce to Survive in 2025 Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 29
  • Ziyada Hafizi
From Bans to Business: How Afghan Women Use Social Commerce to Survive in 2025

This article explores how Afghan women are using social commerce...

Mountain Forests as Water Guardians: Addressing Climate-Induced Drought in Central Afghanistan Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 26
  • Asef Jafari
Mountain Forests as Water Guardians: Addressing Climate-Induced Drought in Central Afghanistan

This article examines why forest-based approaches remain critical for addressing...

Critical Mineral Smuggling Finance Illegal Armed Conflict in Global South Business and Economy South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 24
  • Angana Guha Roy
Critical Mineral Smuggling Finance Illegal Armed Conflict in Global South

This article examines how the illicit smuggling of critical minerals...

How Youth and Digital Networks Are Transforming Movements in South Asia Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 22
  • Muhammad Aquib
How Youth and Digital Networks Are Transforming Movements in South Asia

This article examines how youth-led, digitally networked movements are reshaping...

Breaking the Dollar Dilemma: The Global South’s New Fight for Financial Sovereignty Business and Economy South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 15
  • Abdul Akbar
Breaking the Dollar Dilemma: The Global South’s New Fight for Financial Sovereignty

This article explores how the Global South is reevaluating its...

Afghanistan’s Exclusion from COP30: A crisis of climate Justice Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 12
  • Sayed Anwar Wisa
Afghanistan’s Exclusion from COP30: A crisis of climate Justice

This article exposes the injustice of Afghanistan’s exclusion from COP30...

Privatizing Faith and Religion: Weighing Freedom, Equality, and Social Peace Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 08
  • Muhammad Younus
Privatizing Faith and Religion: Weighing Freedom, Equality, and Social Peace

This article examines proposals to privatize religion not as neutral...

Can Science Diplomacy Bridge Disagreements? International Relations South and Central Asia
  • Dec 2025, 03
  • Angana Guha Roy
Can Science Diplomacy Bridge Disagreements?

This article explores the concept of science diplomacy as a...

When the Storms End, the Struggle Begins: The Emotional Burden of Climate Change on Women in Pakistan Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Nov 2025, 28
  • Sahar Manzoor
When the Storms End, the Struggle Begins: The Emotional Burden of Climate Change on Women in Pakistan

This article highlights the significant emotional and mental health burden...

Sports as a Proxy Tool in Foreign Policy- A Perspective from Asia Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Nov 2025, 21
  • Angana Guha Roy
Sports as a Proxy Tool in Foreign Policy- A Perspective from Asia

This article traces how a tense India-Pakistan cricket game, complete...

Resisting Erasure: Afghan Women’s Struggle for Education and Agency in Post-2021 Afghanistan Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Nov 2025, 14
  • Farahnaz Amini
Resisting Erasure: Afghan Women’s Struggle for Education and Agency in Post-2021 Afghanistan

This article examines how Afghan women have transformed the struggle...

Innovation and the Invisibilisation of Gender: What the Global Innovation Index Misses? Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Nov 2025, 05
  • Priyanka Garodia
Innovation and the Invisibilisation of Gender: What the Global Innovation Index Misses?

This article critiques the Global Innovation Index (GII) for overlooking...

Deepfake: Disinformation by Design International Relations South and Central Asia
  • Oct 2025, 24
  • Angana Guha Roy
Deepfake: Disinformation by Design

This article examines how deepfakes have evolved from isolated digital...

Armenia’s Proactive Hedging Strategy International Relations South and Central Asia
  • Sep 2025, 29
  • Ararat Kostanian
Armenia’s Proactive Hedging Strategy

This article examines Armenia’s blocked bid to join the Shanghai...

The Generation That wouldn’t wait: How Nepal’s Gen Z Redefined Protest Politics Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Sep 2025, 24
  • Saemah Shamim
The Generation That wouldn’t wait: How Nepal’s Gen Z Redefined Protest Politics

This article examines how Nepal’s Generation Z transformed a government-imposed...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan After 2021: Between Humanitarianism and Gender Silence International Relations South and Central Asia
  • Sep 2025, 15
  • Farahnaz Amini
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan After 2021: Between Humanitarianism and Gender Silence

This article explores how the OIC, despite its authority to...

Policy on Paper, Disaster in Practice: Lessons from Pakistan’s Climate Crisis Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Sep 2025, 05
  • Shaza Khalid
Policy on Paper, Disaster in Practice: Lessons from Pakistan’s Climate Crisis

This article critically analyses Pakistan’s worst floods ranging from the...

Integrating the Global South through BRICS Business and Economy South and Central Asia
  • Jul 2025, 30
  • Natasha Agarwal
Integrating the Global South through BRICS

This article critically analyzes the 17th BRICS Summit communique, highlighting...

Our unprecedented impact on the Oceans: Is Marine life close to extinction? Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Jul 2025, 28
  • Aamina Urooj
Our unprecedented impact on the Oceans: Is Marine life close to extinction?

This article explores the devastating impact of human activities such...

Silent Revolution in the Mindset of Citizens of Pakistan Regarding the Democratic Structure Since the Ouster of Imran Khan Politics and Society South and Central Asia
  • Jul 2025, 23
  • Muhammad Younus
Silent Revolution in the Mindset of Citizens of Pakistan Regarding the Democratic Structure Since the Ouster of Imran Khan

This article discusses the implications of the removal of Imran...

CBAM and the Trade-Off Between Climate Responsibility and Economic Growth: The Role of Trade Openness in a Divided Global Order Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Jul 2025, 04
  • Noor Ul Ain
CBAM and the Trade-Off Between Climate Responsibility and Economic Growth: The Role of Trade Openness in a Divided Global Order

This article critically examines the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment...

Sacrificing Sulawesi’s Blue Paradise for Electric Vehicle Ambition Environment and Sustainability South and Central Asia
  • Jun 2025, 16
  • La Ode Vidino Islamy Shaqban
Sacrificing Sulawesi’s Blue Paradise for Electric Vehicle Ambition

This article examines the way in which the electric vehicle...

Sacred Stones and Silk Roads: Pakistan’s Place in Global Historical Tourism Thinkers South and Central Asia
  • May 2025, 16
  • Muhammad Yaseen
Sacred Stones and Silk Roads: Pakistan’s Place in Global Historical Tourism

This article analyses how to reorient Pakistan from a forgotten...

From Massacre to Retaliation: The 2025 Pahalgam Attack and the Escalating India-Pakistan Conflict International Relations South and Central Asia
  • May 2025, 14
  • Syeda Dur-e-Nayab
From Massacre to Retaliation: The 2025 Pahalgam Attack and the Escalating India-Pakistan Conflict

This article examines the 2025 Pahalgam massacre of 26 pilgrims...

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