The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

The Western perspective is even evident in the region's name: instead of referring to it as West Asia, we now commonly use the term "Near East." This name began to be used in geopolitical discussions ...

This was made more difficult by the fact that the region was fertile ground for meddling by China, Myanmar, and Pakistan. Paliwal uses the term “India’s Near East” to tell a unified story of New Delhi ...