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Environment - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 23, 2019
Climate-A Race We Must Win
World leaders are congregating in New York to figure out how to address the depredation of Earth’s fragile environment, frame policies and make pledges. Will they be able to reconcile their…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 18, 2019
Sykes- Picot & Future of Syria
The present-day borders of the Middle East are the legacy of a hasty agreement signed almost 100 years ago. This has become the cause celebre for the turmoil besetting the region ever since.
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 17, 2019
The Future of Conflict: Myanmar
The failure of the international community to enforce favourable conditions for the safe return home of the Rohingya refugees has once again highlighted its incompetence against state-sponsored…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 17, 2019
Drones over Middle Eastern Skies
The precision drone attack by the Houthis targeting the economic heart of the Kingdom of Saud has finally given to the proverbial ‘David’ a weapon to measure up to his ‘Goliath’ like opponents. What…
Indian Politics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 16, 2019
NRC-Citizenship in Question
The National Register of Citizens (NRC), rendering 1.9 million stateless, has thrown up serious questions on how applicants can submit proof of citizenship in a region that is evolving and…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 14, 2019
UAPA 2019: Striking a Balance
India’s 2019 Amendment to Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, (UAPA) 1967 underscores the conflict between restrictions on basic human rights and security compulsions of the state.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 13, 2019
US Taliban talks: A cul-de-sac
President Trump, in a surprise move, cancelled the scheduled peace talks with the Taliban. This has raised questions of whether the move is a negotiation strategy, or have the peace talks reached a…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 12, 2019
BREXIT -What Next?
The UK under Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to walk out from the European Union (EU) on 31st October 2019 without a definitive exit plan in place. What will this move entail for UK and Europe?
Indian Economics - Op-Eds - Sep 12, 2019
An Antidote to Economic Slowdown
In the last quarter of FY 18-19, India logged 5.8% growth. Some economists expect the GDP for the first quarter of FY 19-20 to be lower than 5.8%, suggesting that there is a structural issue with the…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 11, 2019
Russian Far East- India’s Act East Initiative
PM Modi’s visit to the Russian Far East, the first ever by an Indian PM, aims at economic inroads into this resource rich area in direct competition with China and other countries.
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 10, 2019
Damocles’ Sword Over Cash Starved Pakistan
Having failed twice to meet the milestones set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the prospects of blacklisting loom large over an economically stressed Pakistan.
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 9, 2019
Harbinger of Balkanisation
The rollout of Huawei’s 5G pilot in Russia appears to be the first salvo fired in the escalating conflict for cyberspace where competing technological poles will vie for domination of the digital…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 7, 2019
Silence of Muslim World on Uyghurs
The vocal defence of China’s internal security apparatus in the restive Xinjiang province, by Muslim countries as opposed to the condemnation by 22 major western countries, raises the question of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 6, 2019
CDS- Integrating Indian Defence Forces
Will the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) kickstart the long due integration of Indian Defence Forces - creating a Joint Multidimensional Force that will be at par with the modern militaries of other…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 4, 2019
G7: Artefact of a Bygone Era?
The 45th summit of the G7 has concluded in Biarritz, France. Can the G7 bloc retain its pre-eminent position in a globalised flat world with the widest dispersion of economic and political power ever…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 4, 2019
Indian Boots on Ground in Afghanistan
By relegating regional countries including India as bystanders in the war against terror in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump has clearly shared his frustration at the slow progress in US-Afghan…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 3, 2019
NATO and Turkey: An Imminent Divorce?
The increasing geopolitical divergence between NATO and Turkey has raised serious concerns on the longevity of Turkey’s future in the alliance. Do the two still need each other or is one holding the…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 30, 2019
Recession: Speculation or Certainty?
Some experts predict a recession fed by ongoing political and economic upheavals between powerful nations. Are falling long term interest rates, the appearance of the dreaded inverted yield curve and…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 29, 2019
An Overdose of Opioid: Johnson & Johnson
Does the landmark judgement of a US Court against Johnson & Johnson for promoting excessive opioids lay bare the complicity of large pharmaceutical corporations in placing profits before social…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 28, 2019
Indian Soft Power Grab in The Gulf
India PM Narendra Modi’s recent visit to India’s traditional allies in the Gulf Region-UAE and Bahrain- as a precursor to the G7 summit- was a strong projection of India’s economic and soft power…