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Sep
06
2021
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From Kabul to Quad: In Which Way World Politics is Heading?

From Kabul to Quad: In Which Way World Politics is Heading?

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Written by : Dr. Pratip Chattopadhyay Abstract: The year 2021 began with renewed enthusiasm of the United States of America and its strategic partners in the Indo-Pacific viz. Indian, Japan and Australia to reenergise the Quad forum with the first meeting (virtually) of member countries’ political head taking place in March 2021. However since July the focus of attention of US and India in particular and of world politics in general shifted to Afghanistan where usurpation of power by Taliban is underway to fill up the vacuum created by withdrawal of US troops after two decades from the country. The…
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May
27
2021
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Can China Act as an Antidote for SAARC?

Can China Act as an Antidote for SAARC?

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Written by : Pratip Chattopadhyay Photo : shutterstock.com Snippet: SAARC is a dead organisation for mainstream analysis in geopolitical and regional studies which is mostly inspired by realist and liberal approach to international politics. For realists the regional body doesn’t have any regional interest vis-a-vis other regions to knit them together and for the liberals the index of conflict among SAARC member-states exceeds that of cooperation and solidarity. From a constructivist perspective however SAARC still has enough reasons to carve out an identity for itself, particularly at a time when China is behaving as the continental power with its BRI…
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Jan
04
2021
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Dance of the Dragons and the Bromance: Friendships in the Neighbourhood

Dance of the Dragons and the Bromance: Friendships in the Neighbourhood

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Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Photo : shutterstock.com Winds of Change: Old Friendship Questioned? What has kept India-Bhutan bromance kindling is Bhutan’s deep social imaginaries of gyagar (holy-land India) linked to the wisdom of the 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk Guru Padmasambhava. Bhutan and its people have diligently stayed true to their religio-cultural links with India- their gyagar neighbour. Over the years, India took its smaller neighbours for granted creating trust deficit among its neighbours and compelled them to wayfind newer friends – Bhutan has mostly been an exception to that trend. India Bhutan camaraderie commemorated 50 years of…
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Dec
15
2020
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On China: The ‘Left Over’ of Indian Foreign Policy

On China: The ‘Left Over’ of Indian Foreign Policy

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Written by : Pratip Chattopadhyay Photo : shutterstock.com Snippet: In the midst of Covid pandemic the latest tension in western sector of Indo-China border around Ladakh region has exposed blatantly the pandemic that has set in Indian (non) -foreign policy towards China in post-Cold War period due to India’s over-dependence on and over-self-presence before United States of America to use India as US ploy against China in Asia. So autonomy of India’s foreign policy towards China has been jeopardised. Off late Dokhlam stand-off in 2017 and Ladakh border skirmish are seen as attempts to recover whatever is left of ‘autonomy’…
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Apr
08
2020
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Coronavirus : La gestion de la crise sanitaire et les conséquences socio-politiques – Partie 2

Coronavirus : La gestion de la crise sanitaire et les conséquences socio-politiques – Partie 2

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Ecrit par : Fugel Khan Etudiant, master en science sociale, Université Paris 8, Saint Denis Photo : Shutterstock.com READ IN ENGLISH Une perspective française – 2ème partie Je t’aime… moi non plus ! Le 17 mars, les confessions d’Agnès Buzyn dans le journal ‘Le Monde’ ont fait l’effet d’une véritable bombe politique contre le gouvernement. Elle a assuré avoir prévenu le président et le premier ministre Édouard Philippe dès janvier de la catastrophe sanitaire qui se profilait. L'ancienne ministre de la santé, qui a remplacé Benjamin Griveaux, le candidat initial affaibli par un scandale sexuel, pour porter les couleurs LREM…
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Apr
07
2020
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Coronavirus: Health Crisis Management and Socio-political Consequences – Part 2

Coronavirus: Health Crisis Management and Socio-political Consequences – Part 2

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Written by : Fugel Khan Student of Masters in Social Science, University Paris 8, Saint Denis Photo credit: Shutterstock.com READ IN FRENCH A French perspective: Part 2 I love you... neither do I! On March 17, the former Health Minister Agnès Buzyn's confession in ‘Le Monde’ newspaper came as political bombshell against the government that she had warned the President and the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe as early as January of an impending health catastrophe. The former Health Minister, who replaced Benjamin Griveaux, the original candidate weaken by sex scandal, to represent the LREM in the municipal elections in Paris…
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Apr
04
2020
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Coronavirus : Health Crisis Management and Socio-political Consequences – Part 1

Coronavirus : Health Crisis Management and Socio-political Consequences – Part 1

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Written by : Fugel Khan (Student of Masters in Social Science, University Paris 8, Saint Denis) Photo credit : Shutterstock.com READ IN FRENCH A French perspective : Part 1 Before the world could assess the impact of forest fires in Brazil and Australia on the survival of humankind, the worst was not thought to have happened until the appearance of the COVID-19 virus, which finds its origin in a local market of Wuhan city in late 2019. The Chinese authority, which was rather discreet at first, officially recognized the spread of the epidemic in January 2020, and the WHO confirmed…
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Feb
04
2020
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The CRISPR Story : From boon to bane?

The CRISPR Story : From boon to bane?

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Written By: Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Department of Plant Science and innovation University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Photo: Shutterstock.com CRISPR is something you must have come across in your science news feed in the last couple of years or so. Even if you have not, you may have seen the big news that took social media by storm – the genome-edited babies in China, Lulu and Nana. One might wonder what is this fuss all about and why is this technique in the news all of a sudden? To make sense of it all its important to delve a little into the…
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Dec
18
2018
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India Wins Maldives and Sri Lanka Back, Corners China

India Wins Maldives and Sri Lanka Back, Corners China

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Written By: D P Satish New Delhi, India Photo: Shutterstock “India is not only our closest friend, it is our largest trading partner”. With those words, Maldives’ newly elected President Ibrahim Solih shut the door on a bitter past with its closest and biggest neighbor, promising to respect India’s “red lines” that his predecessor Abdulla Yameen had transgressed by his dalliance with China. Yameen was widely expected to win the September election since he had jailed or exiled his political rivals, suborned the judiciary and reportedly, packed the Election Commission with his supporters. As it turned out, he lost with…
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