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Brexit Lessons for the EU and Its Neighbours
The EU can learn from Brexit how to manage divergence and differentiate integration – for the sake of its other neighbours Through Brexit, the European Union…
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UNHRC: Govt. Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea
The President has appointed a three-member Commission of Inquiry to review the reports of the preceding commissions and committees that investigated human rights issues in Sri…
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Do We Need a New Definition of Education Abroad Post-COVID?
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an undeniable and potentially lasting impact on education abroad programming. Emerging developments point to the beginning of a new era, one…
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Red Fort isn’t Just a Historic Monument. Its Breach Crossed a Red Line in Indian Mind
Indians guard the Red Fort’s autonomy and sanctity zealously, and bristle when they perceive a threat. When the farmers protesting against the Narendra Modi government’s three…
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Article 93 of Constitution: Flouted Clause in HoR Dissolution
The constitutional bench, while giving its verdict on the issue, should also provide the explanation of Article 93 in accordance with this case for future references.…
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Biden Team Must Pressure Afghanistan’s Taliban to Stop the Violence
The Biden administration has announced a review of last year’s U.S.-Taliban peace deal and an assessment of whether the Taliban are holding up to their end…
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Putin, Poison, and Self-Inflicted Wounds: Navalny’s Return to Russia
Instead of blackballing Navalny, the Kremlin has turned him into the world’s most famous political prisoner. The dramatic arrest of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny at…
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António Guterres Does Not Deserve a Second Term
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Jan 11 that he would be seeking a second five-year term. Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, campaigned…
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What is Alexey Navalny’s Endgame?
But can his political project succeed while the West continues to be openly hostile to Russia? Thousands of people across Russia’s 11 time zones took to…
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Should Pakistan and Bangladesh Recognize Israel?
South Asia's two majority Muslim states are being pressured to follow oil-rich Arab states' shift toward Israel “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –…
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Why the World Needs to Take Climate-Induced Migration Seriously
There is an urgent need for a global compact that includes climate refugees Population migration forced by climate change has already become one of the major…
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Was Brexit Inevitable?
On one level, Brexit was simply the unintended outcome of the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on its European Union membership. But in retrospect, there was a…
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Beyond the Virus: Global Priorities and Perspectives
It is encouraging to know that the World Health Organization (WHO) is sending a mission to Wuhan in Hubei Province in China for the review and…
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What the Biden Era Will Feel Like, Six Months In
The Biden era is well underway by now. The world — wary still at the bizarrely unrecognizable and unreliable United States of the previous four years…
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Thoughts on Democracy as Trump Exits, Finally…
For it should never be forgotten that 74 million Americans voted for the man who now seems bent on destroying the edifice on which he stood…
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Project Implementation During the Pandemic Discouragingly Poor
The first six months of the fiscal year 2020-21 saw very slow implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) of Bangladesh. Data of the Monitoring and…