India
India's Prime Minister since 2014, his flagship economic policy is known as Make in India
Who is Narendra Modi?
Bonus: What is Make in India all about?
This country's civil war, beginning in 2011, displaced more than 13 million people, with more than 6 million fleeing the country
What is Syria?
Bonus: Which country provides refuge to the largest proportion of displaced Syrians?
An Islamic revolution in this year saw Iran's hereditary monarchy overthrown and replaced by a conservative theocracy
What is 1979
Bonus: Who was the hereditary monarch? Who was the revolution led by?
The 1973 embargo imposed by this influential cartel tripled the price of oil virtually overnight
What is OPEC?
Bonus: What was the embargo a response to and which states did it primarily target?
These two titans of anti-colonialism in British India became the first leaders of independent India & Pakistan
Who are (Mahatma) Mohandas Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
India has fought wars cold war- and post-cold war-era with these two neighbors, with whom it has unresolved border disputes
What are China and Pakistan?
What is Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal?
Bonus: Under which Egyptian leader?
In the 1980s, the U.S. covertly supported Afghan guerillas known by this name
What are the mujahideen?
These countries hold, respectively, the world's first and second largest proven oil reserves
What are Venezuela and Saudi Arabia?
Israel has carried out airstrikes on these three countries to thwart their nuclear ambitions
What are Iraq (1981), Syria (2007), and Iran (2025)?
In August 2025, President Trump imposed punitive tariffs on India in response to this policy
What is (continued) importation of Russian oil?
Bonus: How has this developed over the past 2 weeks?
In terms of regional power and influence, this country is generally seen as the main beneficiary of the US's 2003 war with Iraq
What is Iran?
The former East Pakistan, now independent, became this country in 1971
What is Bangladesh?
Some 20% of the world's oil is transported through this 21-mile-wide geostrategic chokepoint
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This humanitarian principle was invoked explicitly in the 2011 UNSC resolution that authorized military action against Libya
What is R2P?
Under Nehru, India was a key figure in creating and sustaining this cold war bloc, which shunned formal alliances with either the USA or USSR
What is the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Bonus: Which other states were instrumental in setting up the movement?
What are the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank
Bonus: From who, in each case?
This "father of of Pakistan's nuclear program" confessed to -- and was pardoned for -- selling technology and equipment to that helped several other countries develop nuclear programs
Who is A.Q. Khan?
Bonus: To which countries were these materials sold?
After he nationalized Iran's oil industry, the US and UK provided support to the 1953 coup that overthrew this prime minister
Who is Mohammad Mosaddegh?
This country has been referred to as the Graveyard of Empires
What is Afghanistan
Bonus: Which 3 (modern) great powers were thwarted in their ambitions to control the country?