Rick Sanchez asked what he makes of the US’ “serious overtures” with Pakistan, Shashi Tharoor said, “I think the US is in a ...

In History That India Ignored, veteran journalist Prem Prakash argues that Britain’s support for Pakistan’s creation was driven by Cold War strategy. A compelling alternate history that reinterprets ...

The roar of modern war's destroying engines shook the gilded spires and jeweled pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were ...

The SEATO commitment was the reason. Making an ironclad promise under international law bound the United States to conflict. Over 10 years, 55,000 US troops died in a war that no presidential ...

The exercise was billed grandly as SEATO's "first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers." Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to ...

US To India: Be My Local Deputy? However, for a sheriff to succeed in enforcing the law in his jurisdiction, there is a need for deputies. In the early days of the Cold War, America tried to ...

A mansion owned by royalty, and one of New Zealand's most viewed homes, the historic Clark House in Auckland's Hobsonville, has finally been sold.

That points to the failure of SEATO to take root in Asia. Fast forward to today, the calls for Asian NATO is still impracticable.

IN shaping its foreign policy the Philippines is primarily moved by three considerations: first, national security; second, economic stability; and third, political and cultural relations with the ...

SEATO was established at the behest of the US in 1954. It was designed for the containment of China and communist influence in South East Asia, but the Philippines and Thailand were the only South ...