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2023, A Year of Elections in South Asia
South Asia is a region which is politically, culturally and historically influential to each other. Three major states in modern South Asia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh,…
Analysis
Where Next? Political Consequences of SL’s Economic Breakdown
The momentous year of 2022 for Sri Lanka can be divided into two major phases. In the first phase, people grew frustrated with the failure of…
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Japan Eyes Global Military Power Status
Japan has quickly restructured its defense architecture and procedures in line with current great powers like the US Realist international relations scholars predicted that after the…
Analysis
A Plot Twist Makes Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prime Minister of Nepal
Dahal, aka ‘Prachanda’, turned his back on an earlier alliance with the Nepali Congress to side with the CPN-UML. Now he must lead a coalition government…
Analysis
Peace May Be a Long Way Off in Ukraine in 2023
As Russia’s war in Ukraine passed its 10-month mark on Dec. 24, the toll of the protracted conflict has been immense. The war has produced hundreds…
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A Year of Global Displacement
This year’s record-breaking global displacement crisis calls for immigration policies that reflect our humanity, not cruelty. This year had the unwelcome distinction of being the first…
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Waiting for The Dawn After World Faced A Difficult Year
It’s said that the hour before dawn is the darkest. That consolation sustained Indians as not even the glory of the G-20 presidency prevented speculation about…
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Bangladesh Faces Balance of Payments Vulnerabilities
The public policy discourse in Bangladesh is focused on short-term solutions Bangladesh’s trade trajectories are frequently praised because of the phenomenal growth in export profits from…
Analysis
The War in Ukraine May Help The World Save Itself from Climate Ruination
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war in Ukraine has visited utter devastation and unimaginable pain upon that beleaguered country. It might be ghoulishly wrong to even…
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The Democrats are Now The War Party
The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when…
Analysis
Pakistan’s Latest Change of Command – What to Expect?
Since the end of November 2022, Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir has taken over as Pakistan’s new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) from General Qamar Javed…
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Gauging the Strength of Myanmar’s Armed Resistance
In the months since Myanmar’s February 2021 coup, war is no longer restricted to the mountainous hinterlands and has come to its central plains. New resistance…