Syed Wajahat Ali

The Author is a columnist and member of UNFCCC and ICAN. He taught Public Policy in the National Defence University of Pakistan.
Syed Wajahat Ali

Artificial Intelligence and Music of the Human Condition

IS AI really going to dehumanize civilization? I think the opposite is also plausible, considering the nuanced possibilities of the historical dialectic in human social…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Regionalizing Power: The Mecca Pact and the Future of Global Security

Pakistan–KSA–Turkey mutual defense in Mecca is perhaps among the most significant shifts in the power structure of the Middle East since the post–World War I…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Painful Profits: Mechanics of a New Globalisation

THE stark divergence between profit and pain has become a dominant feature of a new phase of globalization since the beginning of this decade: crises…

Syed Wajahat Ali

God’s Battle: Tehran, The Strait and the Mirage of Victory

E. O. Wilson once warned that the crisis of humanity lies in the contradiction that we possess “a Paleolithic mind, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Return of Caesars: Chips, Memory, and the Pacific

Imagine, on one side, solar-powered AI satellites operating in deep space, with orbital internet feeding into ground robotics, going to grind the world’s productivity, connectivity,…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Treaty of the Himalayas: A Final Call from Asia’s Crumbling Water Tower

In continuation of my earlier proposal to reshape global diplomatic architecture around transboundary geographical features, an instructive example is the Himalayan ecosystem shared by China…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Unions of Transboundary Ecosystems: A New Diplomatic Architecture

Since the Paris Agreement, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has sped up the transition to renewable energy and fundraising for climate resilience.…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Planet, Power and Shakespeare

Despite humans having witnessed a dramatic evolution in global governance and connectivity, the underlying constraints shaping their group consciousness in conflict are largely primitive. These…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Echoes of Empire: South Asia’s Unique Pluralism and Conflict

Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in the context of Latin American solitude and the irony of Spanish colonialism, “The interpretation of our reality through patterns not…

Syed Wajahat Ali

Delusions of Modern Warfare: Afghanistan, A Case Study

Modern warfare tends to depart from the post-Napoleonic, Clausewitzian theory that war is a rational expression of national interest. Paradoxically, technology, despite adding sophistication and…

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