Adil Rasheed

The petrodollar system that came into existence in the 1970s has come under stress, with oil being traded increasingly in non-US denominated currencies.

• Published: January 18, 2023
• Issue Brief

In a country like Pakistan, where none of its Prime Ministers could ever complete a full five-year term in office, the role of the so-called ‘deep State’ — a term used as a euphemism for its Army—in exercising disproportionate control over the affairs of the country—has often been highlighted.

• Published: January-February 2023
• Strategic Analysis

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed contributed a chapter on Indian response to the COVID crisis in the recently published Routledge book titled 'COVID-19 in South, West, and Southeast Asia Risk and Response in the Early Phase', edited by Rohan Gunaratna and Mohd Mizan Aslam.

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• Published: 8 December, 2022

With the war in Ukraine moving towards an uncertain resolution, there is a danger that the influx of heavy weaponry and foreign fighters could bring in a new set of imponderables into an already vicious and escalating conflict.

• Published: March 28, 2022
• IDSA Comments

The coming of Taliban to power in Afghanistan could upset the geopolitical applecart in Central Asia and adjoining regions. The growing association of radical Uyghur groups like the ETIM, with IS-K and the spread of jihadist operations in Central Asia could have significant implications for regional and international powers, particularly for China and its ambitious plans for Silk Road imperialism.

• Published: November 29, 2021
• IDSA Comments

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Adil Rasheed's article 'The Afghanistan Situation: How India can Discomfit Pakistan Even Now' has been published in the news portal India Narrative on August 17, 2021.

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• Published: 17 August, 2021

While discussing the roots of strategic culture of any country, it is important to understand its core belief systems, enshrined in its spiritual, philosophical, political and military treatises that may have played a fundamental role in shaping its collective psyche and by extension, its patterns of perception and behaviour.

• Published: July-September 2021
• Journal of Defence Studies

The attack on former Maldivian President and current Speaker of the Majlis, Mohammad Nasheed, on May 6, 2021 has brought to attention the country’s tenuous political stability, compounded by the problem of Islamist radicalisation.

• Published: May 20, 2021
• Issue Brief

People often complain that Islamic scholars do little more than condemn the inhuman acts of so-called jihadist groups and fall short of delivering strong, incontrovertible rebuttals against the vicious narratives of terrorist groups, like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS). It has also been stated that the ever-rearing Hydra-like heads of terrorism will have to be endlessly severed until genuine Islamic scholarship drains the very swamp of irreligious radicalism from which the monstrosity continually raises new and ugly distortions.

• Published: April-June 2021
• Journal of Defence Studies

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Adil Rasheed’s research paper 'West Asia: From Non-State Radicalism to State Revisionism' has been published in the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (IFAJ).

The paper deals with growing radicalism in the Middle East, which seems to be shifting away from the dwindling presence of non-state Salafi jihadist actors to the state revisionism of Turkey and Iran, who are in effect also re-igniting their ancient Achaemenid-Alexandrian, Byzantine-Sassanid, Ottoman-Safavid rivalries. Meanwhile, Jews and Arabs huddle under the fledgeling Semitic neologism of Abraham Accords to keep their primordial hegemons out, as the US plans to withdraw from West Asia and pivot to the Far East.

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• Published: 15 March, 2021