Diplomacy Journal Lee Sung Jun | NEW DELHI — When India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty on September 19, 1960, it was widely hailed as a landmark achievement in international water diplomacy, brokered by the World Bank amid one of the world's most fraught bilateral relationships. More than six decades later, however, the agreement faces mounting scrutiny — not for what it accomplished, but for what critics describe as a fundamentally inequitable architecture that systematically disadvantaged India from the outset. A detailed analysis of the treaty's negotiating history and operatio
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo “Tajikistan stands ready for strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation with the Republic of Korea in such areas as hydropower, textile, light, chemical and food industries, mining and processing of mineral ore and rare metals, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, transport and tourism,” said Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Republic of Korea Salohiddin Kirom on March 14. In an exclusive interview with Diplomacy Journal held at the Embassy of Tajikistan in Hannan-dong, Seoul, Amb. Salohiddin Kirom said, “Tajikistan is open to