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Pakistan in the Indo-Pacific Framework?
Despite its strategic location as a primary littoral state in the Indian Ocean Region, Pakistan has largely eluded discussions on the Indo-Pacific. While the Biden administration’s…
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The Democratic Insider Who Fought the Trump Administration
Douglas Letter was the House chief counsel for four years, leading the Democrats’ legal efforts to fight the Trump administration on the census, tax records and…
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We Didn’t Vote for This Zombie Brexit
Rishi Sunak's Windsor Framework betrays the democratic revolt of 2016. Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak boasts that the Windsor Framework deal with the EU means his…
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Sri Lanka’s Great IMF Lie
Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a…
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Sanctions Rarely Work, but are They Still The Least Worst Option?
How do we encourage states – or more specifically the people who run them – to behave well, or at least not badly? The “we” in…
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Trouble With Carbon Markets
Even markets with contested reputations, such as those for finance and pharmaceuticals, have rules that go beyond certifying the quality of the products traded. As recent…
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Forget Yellow Journalism, India Is Now Fertile Ground for Saffron Journalism
Media, which should act as a bridge between the authorities and the rest of the population, is decaying in the world's largest democracy. Since India attained…
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The War Will Grind on: Reflecting on A Year of War in Ukraine
“So it begins!” This was the message shared among my team at the Royal United Services Institute on Feb. 22, 2022 as Russian President Vladimir Putin…
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South Asia’s Looming Water War
More than six decades ago, the world’s most generous water-sharing pact was concluded. Under the Indus Waters Treaty, upstream India left the lion’s share of the…
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Judiciary and Democracy
Judiciary must take steps to solidify rather than attenuate the sovereign status of the parliamentary democracy In 1965 India experienced a serious constitutional crisis involving a…
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Why The Movement Against Rampal Plant in Bangladesh Failed
Five years after a people’s movement to stop a power plant near the Sundarban, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government has pushed the project through. Why did…
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In Wildlife Conservation, Gender Equality Brings Win-Win Returns
Biologists placing jaguar and biodiversity monitoring camera traps on cattle farms with anti-predation measures. Photo: Ricardo Moreno, GWP Panama project Environmental degradation, illegal wildlife trade, and…