Analysis
Will World Leaders at COP26 Resolve The Refugee Crisis?
Climate change in Afghanistan has not only fuelled conflict, it has also provoked a major refugee crisis. Most of Afghanistan is dry and hot for much…
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A Rising China Might Be America’s Most Serious Threat Today
China’s growing aggression over Taiwan could spark conflict. Biden will have to navigate these dire straits prudently. In the waning days of the Trump administration, General…
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Xi Jinping’s Top Five Foreign Policy Mistakes
He's undoing years of assurances to regional governments that a stronger China will be peaceful, non-domineering Xi Jinping’s aggressive foreign policy is stimulating increased international opposition…
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The Easy Way to Rein in Facebook and Google: Stop Them Gobbling Up Competitors
Few of us who have survived the last year aren’t grateful for technology. Zoom, email, connected workplaces and solid internet connections at home have made it…
Analysis
How to Fight COVID Vaccine Misinformation?
The pandemic created a toxic legacy of misinformation and conspiracy theories that has mobilised opposition to vaccinations. Opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself.…
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The Conundrum of Statistics in Bangladesh
As a country becomes more developed and its institutions adopt the conveniences of modern technologies, it can be a natural assumption that the resultant inflow of…
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Fighting Climate Change with Innovation
Innovation has brought us to an inflection point; the coming decade will be decisive When we gathered in Paris in 2015 to hammer out the historic…
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Summit for Democracy
Democracy is said to be the worst form of government except all others that have been tried A virtual Summit for Democracy is being convened by…
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Is There A Good Way for A Political Party to Achieve Internal Democracy?
Democratic functioning may be an ideological imperative, operational choice, or legitimising tactic but it is not an end in itself for a political party. The case…
Analysis
COVID-19 Intensifies Digital Repression in South and Southeast Asia
COVID-19 has enabled states to reformulate public health surveillance as law-and-order issues. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries in Asia had experienced rising levels of autocratization…
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Fiscal Policy for an Uncertain World
As public debt rises to record levels, countries need to calibrate fiscal policies to their own unique circumstances. Vaccination has saved lives and helped economic recovery…
Analysis
Why is India So Prickly As It Faces Global Gaze?
In the latest UN Human Development Index, India is placed 131 out of 189 countries Is the world conspiring to make India look bad? Or are…