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The Makkah Pact and the Emerging West Asian Order
The author argues that while the newly formed Makkah Joint Defence Agreement between major Muslim nations aims to address shifting West Asian security dynamics and project regional power, its internal rivalries, broad external targets—including Israel, India, and Russia—and questionable operational feasibility will ultimately drive impacted non-member states like India to recalibrate their own strategic partnerships and diplomatic alliances.
At its core, DPI rests on a simple idea: the state provides open, interoperable digital rails that both public services and private innovation can run on. Rather than delivering each service through a stand-alone administrative apparatus, governments rely on shared digital platforms that standardise identity verification, payments, documentation, and data exchange.
