The Synergia Foundation hosted its 62nd Round table to discuss the book, the Treaty of Versailles and the Remaking of the World--1919 -2019, authored by sisters Aloka Moulik Chatterjee and Achala M....
Background We are poised at the threshold of yet another generational shift in technology which has the potential to change long-held fundamentals in commerce, intelligence, military affairs and...
The Impact of History- The Generational Syndrome Generational Syndrome has deeply influenced the political history of the Middle East in the last 100 years. Taking the end of WW 2 as a start point,...
Background China never attempted to conceal its ambitions for technological pre-eminence. It took its cue from the US, the reigning power and its erstwhile mentor. Discarding Mao’s adage that ‘...
Revolution 6: Security After the 2ndWorld War and the creation of the United Nations, in 1945, the world has avoided ‘Total War’, as interpreted by the Prussian General Carl Von Clausewitz...
What will the Future Look Like? I woke up one morning in 2119, some 100 years from now. I was lying alone on the pristine beach of Andamans & Nicobar Islands. Coconut trees swayed in the breeze...
Background The situation in India's North East is consequential to both its history and geography. The entry of the British into the region in the 1820s was in response to a request from the Ahom...
Background The progenitor of the artificial intelligence (AI) enabled deep fake is a technique called Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). A complex system of feeding data to GAN works on two...
In this second paper of the series, we continue to describe current operational realities in the form of scenarios and then attempt to describe those same scenarios in the future, after the...
Indian PM Narendra Modi and former French President Francois Hollande revealed the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in 2015. This project was launched to combine the efforts of both countries to work against climate change, replacing the use of fossil fuels, and adopt renewable energy.
The Vision of ISA is to provide a platform for cooperation among solar resource-rich countries where global community...
Background President Xi Jinping has just completed a two-day official visit to Myanmar, on 17 and 18 January 2020. This was the first state visit by a Chinese President, in 19 years; though, in 2009, Xi Jinping as Vice President had visited Myanmar. The geopolitical significance of the visit is three-fold; PRC support to Myanmar in the Rohingya Crisis; assertion of Myanmar control in the Northern states, particularly Kachin and Shan; and, the revival of the stalled BRI (Belt & Road Initiative) projects in Myanmar. The...
The teenage years of the Twenty-First Century are over, we at Synergia take a peek at some of the consequential events on our global patch that could help us better understand 2020 and beyond.The decade began with a prodigious disaster in Haiti on the 12th of Jan 2010. A devastating earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter, killed hundreds and thousands of people.A lot has changed in the last 10...
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