ISDP Voices

The snap polls in Iran concluded last week, announcing the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian as the country’s next president. The elections took place after the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi in an accident in early June. After Pezeshkian’s win, the attention turns to what comes next for Iranians, the future of Iran’s foreign policy, […]

In the just-concluded Indian general elections, the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was humbled but ensured a majority through its pre-poll alliance. The Indian National Congress (INC), the second-largest party, although it fell short of the three-digit mark, came very close to doubling its current count. Significantly, after six decades, Modi became the first leader […]

Myanmar has been facing a civil war since February 2021, when its military staged a coup and dissolved the democratic government. The junta-led State Administration Council (SAC) has been running Myanmar since then. This resulted in massive civil unrest and in various armed pro-democratic and ethnic anti-Junta factions engaging in a military confrontation against SAC. […]

On the 21st of June, China issued the “Notification on Punishment of “Taiwan Independence” Diehards Who Commit Crime of Splitting the Country and Inciting the Secession (關於依法懲治“台獨”頑固分子分裂國家、煽動分裂國家犯罪的意見).”  It is a new legal notification enacted based on “Anti-Secession Law (反分裂國家法)” and the “Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China” from the Supreme People’s Court, the […]