Blog Exclusive: The Great Escape after 112 Years: Savarkar Case in International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai The core question before the Arbitration Tribunal was: Should Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, in conformity with the...
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Jun 1, 20225 min read
Report: Young Researchers’ Conference on Central and Eastern Europe: Three Decades since Transition
By Debanjali Ghosh & Lyimee Saikia The Young Researchers’ Conference on Central and Eastern Europe: Three Decades since Transition was...
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May 30, 20223 min read
Africa Day 2022: The 20-year celebration of the African Union
By Aarshi Dua The theme of the Africa day celebration for 2022 is Nutrition, and the aim of AU is to strengthen the Agro-Food Systems,...
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May 28, 20227 min read
Can US-led IPEF outshine RCEP or CPTPP?
By Prof. Swaran Singh Many in the region see the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework as far too US-centric in certain sectors. On the eve of...
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May 28, 20225 min read
Blog Special Series-I: Use of Food as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai In the third decade of the 21st century, the growing use of food as a weapon to starve civilians and others...
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May 26, 20224 min read
How Quad Tokyo outcome was both positive and practical, though it makes no mention of China
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli This round of the Quad meeting will go down in history for its norm-building exercise, democratisation...
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May 24, 20227 min read
The idea of Indian nationalism did not come from the Constitution. It has ancient roots
By Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit Indian civilisation has always celebrated development, democracy, diversity, difference, and dissent...
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May 24, 20224 min read
India, China relations threaten to freeze over
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli The invasion of Ukraine has upended world geopolitics, disrupting the already fragile relationship between...
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May 21, 20225 min read
Ukraine, Oz election to complicate Quad leaders’ summit
By Prof. Swaran Singh While their shared China challenge has kept them together, continuing Ukraine crisis and winds of change predicted...
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May 18, 20223 min read
NATO expansion to Finland and Sweden may complicate Russian designs in Europe
By Prof. Gulshan Sachdeva If NATO expansion was considered to be a major cause of the Ukraine war, its enlargement in the Nordics could...
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May 17, 20225 min read
The Sedition Law on Trial?
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai All civilized democratic societies practice the adage that a law must keep in tune with changing needs of a...
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May 14, 20224 min read
Déjà vu in Ukraine and the tragic saga of not learning from the past
By Pratik Mall The tragic saga in Ukraine is also clear evidence of the USA's fundamentally faulty policy towards Russia and the lack of...
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May 13, 20224 min read
The EU and Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Dr. Sheetal Sharma With vacillating opinion in favour of war to suppression of opposition of war, the world will start seeing the...
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May 13, 20226 min read
US, ASEAN need to restore mutual trust at summit
By Prof. Swaran Singh While the US is preoccupied with Ukraine and China, ASEAN has other concerns, including prodigal member Myanmar The...
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May 11, 20225 min read
Focus on Ukraine has pushed Afghans’ plight to periphery
By Prof. Swaran Singh The Taliban of 2022 have showcased themselves as being no different from the Taliban of 1996-2001 This week saw the...
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May 10, 20225 min read
Nailing the Filibuster on the ‘India-Pakistan Question’ as the UNSC’s ‘seized’ Item
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai On 6 April 2022 the Permanent Representative of Pakistan (PRP), Munir Akram, sent a letter to the President of...
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May 2, 20223 min read
PM in Europe | Narendra Modi may focus on trade, technology, and green transition
By Prof. Gulshan Sachdeva A new, positive momentum created during UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's and European Commission President...
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May 1, 20223 min read
Xi’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy: The pitfalls of authoritarianism
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli China is reeling under a massive resurgence of the coronavirus, affecting an estimated 400 million people...
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Apr 27, 20223 min read
Why India Must Engage Taiwan Even If It Ruffles a Few Chinese Feathers
Dr. Sana Hashmi India has kept a low profile with Taiwan due to a protracted border issue and repeated standoffs with China The...
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