Adil Rasheed

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991, US political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his book The End of History and the Last Man (Citation1992) triumphantly declared that the event marked the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government (Fukuyama Citation1992). However, time has since mellowed the now septuagenarian Fukuyama, whose earlier writings made him an ideologue of neo-conservative thought. In his book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, he accepts that the war-like misadventures of neo-liberals and the race and gender-based Left-wing identity politics of US ‘progressives’ have increased inequality around the world and caused the perception that liberal ideas are outdated (Fukuyama Citation2022).

• Adil Rasheed |
• November-December 2025 |
• Strategic Analysis

Sub-Saharan Africa has become the eye of the global jihadist storm, with the Sahel region accounting for over half of terrorism-related fatalities worldwide in 2024.

• Adil Rasheed |
• February 19, 2026 |
• Issue Brief

Both the ‘anti-social media’ of the Dark Web and the mainstream social media promote hate, violence and indecency for profit and political ends.

• Adil Rasheed |
• February 11, 2026 |
• IDSA Comments

The threat of US intervention in Nigeria could worsen an already intractable security threat to the region.

• Adil Rasheed |
• November 17, 2025 |
• IDSA Comments

Political violence in the US has increased in recent times, with Charlie Kirk’s killing the latest instance of rising extremism in the US body politic.

• Adil Rasheed |
• September 22, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

Some strategic experts fear there is a high probability of a renewed and expansive Israel–Iran war in the coming months.

• Adil Rasheed |
• September 01, 2025 |
• IDSA Comments

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s peer-reviewed research paper 'Akbar’s Statecraft based on Aristotle’s Ethics & AI-Tusi’s Doctrine of Love’ has been published in Journal of Peace Studies (VOLUME 32, ISSUE 2, APRIL - JUNE, 2025). The main proposition in the research paper is that Akbar's state-building and statecraft was inspired by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Vedanta philosophy and Al-Tusi's Akhlaq-i-Nasiri, an eclectic mix evident in the polity, state architecture and the socio-cultural ethos that the Mughal ruler created. Read Complete Article [+]

Notwithstanding their sectarian differences, Al-Shabaab and Houthis are in cohorts over warring with the West and its allies in the wake of the Gaza crisis.

• Adil Rasheed |
• August 01, 2025 |
• IDSA Comments

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s research paper 'Vedanta and Tawhid: Convergences in the Conception of Godhead' has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Peace Studies (volume 31, ISSUES July-December 2024) - ISSN 0972-5563. The paper explores the principal theistic doctrines of the Hindu Schools of Vedantism (Advaitvad and Dvaitavad) and finds it remarkably in sync with the Islamic schools of Tawhid conceptions (Wahdatul Wujud and Wahdatul Shuhood). Read Complete Article [+] Disclaimer: The views expressed by the author are personal and do not in any way reflect the views of MP-IDSA or the Government of India.

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article 'Why Iran will still not build a nuke' has been published in First Post on 08 July 2025. The article proposes that Iran is fully aware that even a retaliatory nuclear strike on Israel could endanger the holy city of Jerusalem, the Palestinian population, and even the Shia population in southern Lebanon, after which even the Muslim world would support obliterating the nation of Iran. Thus, the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) deterrence doctrine won’t work in this instance. Read Complete Article [+] Disclaimer: The views expressed by the author are personal and do not in any way reflect the views of MP-IDSA or the Government of India.