Archives

Our archives are a repository of original thinking that chronicles two decades of research, analysis, and policy innovation. This collection brings together articles written by SFG’s founders and research analysts between 2005 and 2025, preserving the ideas, and insights that shaped our intellectual journey. These writings reflect the evolution of our thinking as we engaged with some of the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.

The archive offers a rich body of material for researchers, policymakers, students, journalists, and anyone interested in understanding complex global issues through a long-term strategic lens. The articles explore a wide spectrum of subjects, including peace and conflict, water diplomacy, international relations, technology, environmental sustainability, governance, security, and the changing dynamics of regional and global cooperation. They also place regional developments within broader international and geopolitical contexts.

Many of these articles anticipated trends and policy challenges that later became central to international discourse. Others document the development of concepts and frameworks that informed SFG’s subsequent research, dialogues, and publications. Together, they provide not only historical context but also enduring perspectives that continue to resonate in a rapidly changing world.

Beyond serving as a research resource, this archive offers a window into the intellectual history of SFG. It traces how our ideas evolved over time, how new policy concepts emerged through sustained inquiry, and how our engagement expanded from regional concerns to global challenges. Readers can follow the progression of our work across changing geopolitical landscapes and appreciate our evidence-based approaches to peace, security, and international cooperation.

Whether you are revisiting landmark analyses, exploring the origins of key policy ideas, or discovering our work for the first time, we hope these archives provide valuable insights, stimulate informed debate, and inspire fresh thinking about the future.

Did Zenawi keep Ethiopia from falling apart?

August 18, 2012

Ekta Talwar examines the situation in Ethiopia. Whether or not Zenawi was a cruel dictator or a revolutionary, Ethiopia faces the grave danger of descending once again into political restiveness and violence after his death.

Exceeding the mandate: judicial activism in Pakistan

August 18, 2012
By Anumita Raj

Anumita Raj examines recent incidents in Pakistan that point towards an activist Supreme Court.

Will They Attack Us?

August 18, 2012
By Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar examines circumstances that would bring about the biggest paradigm shift on the earth.

The Failure of Protest

May 18, 2012
By Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar comments on recent civilian protests across the world. He opines that unless activity is treated as a surrogate for result, all this euphoria has actually produced no real change.

Science of Boon, Politics of Doom

April 18, 2012
By Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar observes that counties such as the United States, China, Israel, and Europe, that have created an extraordinary spirit of enquiry and creativity - making scientific endeavours feasible, are also countries that are obsessed with control and dominance.

Are Global Financial Crises Good?

April 18, 2012
By Sundeep Waslekar

Since financial crisis first broke out in London in 1825, immediately followed by financial crisis in the United States in 1837, every few decades banks collapse; recession sets in; people are unemployed; and then strangely an industrial revolution takes place drawing the world into a higher orbit of scientific, technological and economic progress.