By Sriharsha Ravi Madichetty
India is one of the densely populated countries in the world and every year many refugees from the neighboring countries of India like Myanmar, Bangladesh, etc. enter our country...
Author: Global South Studies Series
Sino-US Relations: Comprehensive, Strategic and Global in Nature
By Shovan Sinha Ray
Even at times of peace, there is always a possibility of a conflict of interests among nations. Such conflicts over time can generate frictions and finally culminate into a full-scale war...
Turkey-Greece standoff: Rivalry in East Mediterranean
By Vishal Rajput
In International relations, Samuel P. Huntington’s thesis of the clash of civilizations (Huntington, 1993, pp. 22-49) clearly characterizes the historical antagonism between contemporary Turkey and Greece where they both shares the distinct civilizations where the former is dominated by ‘Sunni’ Muslims and the latter consists of overwhelming Christians....
Women In Transition: ‘The Case of Saudi Arabia’
By Shukria Yari
Women are considered to be second class citizens across the world. They have also been exposed to unfair treatment and deprived of several things in society ranging from freedom of speech to choice of marriage, travel, employment, healthcare facilities, inequality in divorce, education, political decision making, and so on....
Luther : Footsteps of Gandhi in a distant land
By Sanjali Mitra
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was proclaimed by the London Times as “the most influential figure India has produced for generations” (“Mr. Gandhi”), after his assassination on January 30, 1948...
Let’s talk about philosophies being sent to Coventry
By Sharmishtha Singh
As a first-year student of philosophy, one of the first things one learns is a list of logical fallacies. This is important because a philosopher's most significant virtue is their rational thought and the application of it. Any philosopher's argumentation then, must be free from logical inconsistencies...
Bunkerization and The Local Turn: Facilitating local voices in UN peacekeeping through peacekeeping economies.
By Swati Lakshmi Batchu
Benjamin Valentino perhaps puts it most succinctly that since the bloody wars of the 20th century no sane person can deny “the veracity of the roman proverb “man is a wolf to man” (Valentino, 2014). Although the world today sees fewer wars than it has ever seen before, the wars are painfully intractable...
Revitalising Panchsheel: The Future Of Indian Foreign Policy
By Shovan Sinha Ray and Vrinda Kaushal
India and China have a long and shared historical past. The relationship reached its zenith during the days of the Mauryan empire (321 to 185 B.C.E). So much so, the two countries have borne the brunt of the British colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Nalapat, 2019)...
Cyber Terrorism and Social Media Weaponization
By Anushka Saraswat
The internet has triggered an information revolution in the world which has forced the individuals and the states to rethink strategies on how to manage information and engage in an increasingly interconnected world. The advent of the internet has created a new biosphere of information flow, in which information hierarchies and unprecedented access to infinite knowledge is consequential...
State of AI policy development in South Asia
By Arun Teja. P
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be the bedrock of the fourth Industrial Revolution and almost all the developed nations are racing to have an edge. Mere digitalization of records and process would not help automation. Necessary computational capabilities and decision-making techniques become the necessary addition to the existing machines...
