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The 15 September announcement of AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership between the US, the UK and Australia, signalled a dramatic shift in Asia’s geopolitical balance of…
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Limiting global warming to 1.5º Celsius remains just about attainable, but the path to this target is formidable. The United Nations climate summit now underway in…
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Pakistan has been a transitional democracy since the fall of President Pervez Musharraf’s military dictatorship At the present moment, any unbiased researcher au fait with regime…
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Climate change is bad for your health. That is the unequivocal finding of The Lancet’s annual “Countdown” report, which was published last week by a team…
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Expect a centralized, exclusive aid management system under the Taliban to replicate the same flaws, challenges 1. What did foreign economic aid accomplish in Afghanistan? Some…
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Our climate emergency is global, yet it does not affect everyone equally. For the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)—a group of 48 countries spanning four continents—climate change…
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• The British leader can enjoy a feeling of self-importance for hosting COP26 in Glasgow but at the end of the day, if the world’s biggest…
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At COP26, leaders must find ways to allow much greater economic growth across large parts of the world. When the world gathers in Glasgow, Scotland, next…
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As long as Bangladesh continues to host such large numbers of refugees it will need financial support. As of July 2021, only $366 million of around…
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With climate action trailing so far behind rhetoric, it is natural to wonder if all the talk is just hypocrisy. But it need not be: If…
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“A QUESTION like this cannot be solved unilaterally,” Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru categorically declared in the Lok Sabha on Feb 25, 1955. His sharp retort was…
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After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela…
