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Contemporary World Affairs (CWA)
Young Voices on Global Politics

CWA Commentaries are primarily authored by young scholars who are a part of the course on Global Politics.

The objective is to provide a platform for the young voices on contemporary world affairs, and also equip them with effective communication skills.

The World This Week: 150th Issue

The Complete Compendium for 2021

December 2021 | CWA # 634

GP Team

The World This Week: 150th Issue

China, East Asia, and South East Asia in 2021

December 2021 | CWA # 633

GP Team

The World This Week: 150th Issue
December 2021 | CWA # 631

The Americas in 2021

GP Team
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The World This Week: 150th Issue
December 2021 | CWA # 630

Europe in 2021

GP Team
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The World This Week: 150th Issue
December 2021 | CWA # 629

Middle East and Africa in 2021

GP Team
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The World This Week: 150th Issue
December 2021 | CWA # 628

South Asia in 2021

GP Team
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NIAS Africa Monitor
December 2021 | CWA # 626

Famine in Ethiopia: The government's refusal to acknowledge, worsens the crisis

Harshita Rathore
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The World This Week
December 2021 | CWA # 625

The Biden-Putin, and Modi-Putin Summits

GP Team
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Pakistan Reader
December 2021 | CWA # 624

Protests in Gwadar: Four major highlights

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Pakistan Reader
December 2021 | CWA # 623

Mini budget, IMF and a contemporary puzzle.

Ankit Singh
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Pakistan Reader
December 2021 | CWA # 622

Indus river dolphin rescued successfully in Larkana and moved to sanctuary

Ankit Singh
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Pakistan Reader
December 2021 | CWA # 621

The Strategic Trade Policy Framework: A boon or a bane?

Sneha M
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Pakistan Reader
December 2021 | CWA # 620

Pakistan cricket: Social media an outlet for inflamed passions

Vishnu Prasad
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The World This Week
December 2021 | CWA # 619

China in Africa, and Elections in Honduras

GP Team
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The World This Week
November 2021 | CWA # 615

Biden-Xi virtual summit, and Russia's ASAT test

GP Team
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Conflict Weekly
November 2021 | CWA # 614

Europe's other migrant crisis, and Protests in Cuba and Thailand

IPRI Team
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 612

Pappu Sain bids adieu to the world

Ankit Singh
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 611

Smog, pollution and more: Deteriorating air quality in Pakistan

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 610

PTI’s secret dealing with the TTP and TLP

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 609

Impasse over next ISI Chief over after 20 days of cordial silence

Ankit Singh
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The World This Week
November 2021 | CWA # 607

COP 26 agreements on methane and deforestation, and elections in Japan

GP Team
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Conflict Weekly
November 2021 | CWA # 606

One year of Ethiopian conflict and UK-France fishing row

IPRI Team
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NIAS Europe Monitor
November 2021 | CWA # 605

France, Algeria, and the politics over an apology

Vaishnavi Iyer
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NIAS Europe Monitor
November 2021 | CWA # 604

NATO-Russia relationship: Looking beyond the suspensions and expulsions

Joeana Cera Matthews
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 603

The fragility of Digital Media Freedom in Pakistan

Sneha M
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 602

PTI’s TLP flip-flop and a secret deal

D. Suba Chandran
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 601

Post IMF Review: Saudi Arabia to bolster Pakistan

Ankit Singh
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 600

The increasing curbs on digital media freedom in Pakistan

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Pakistan Reader
November 2021 | CWA # 599

Pakistan IMF talks faces a logjam of accountability and trust

Ankit Singh
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STIR Review Discussion
October 2021 | CWA # 598

Living with Risks: The Art and Science of Managing Public Risks

STIR Team
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The World This Week
October 2021 | CWA # 597

China's White Paper on Climate Change

GP Team
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NIAS Europe Monitor
October 2021 | CWA # 596

Facebook's Metaverse: Why it matters to Europe

Padmashree Anandhan
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NIAS Europe Monitor
October 2021 | CWA # 594

Poland, EU and PolExit. It is complicated, for three reasons

Joeana Cera Matthews 
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NIAS Europe Monitor
October 2021 | CWA # 593

Europe's Energy Crisis and Gazprom 

Harini Madhusudhan
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NIAS Europe Monitor
October 2021 | CWA # 592

Recent terror attacks in Europe: Five trends from England to Norway

Sourina Bej
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Conflict Weekly
October 2021 | CWA # 591

Coup in Sudan, ASEAN on Myanmar, and the Migrant game by Belarus

IPRI Team
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 590

Pakistan’s prolonged Inflation problem

Sneha M
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 589

TLP: The government caves in again

D. Suba Chandran
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 588

TLP is back again

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 586

Pakistan’s transgender community: The long road ahead

Apoorva Sudhakar | Project Associate, School of Conflict and Security Studies, NIAS


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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 584

Since January 2021: Why the US President has not called Pakistan’s Prime Minister so far?

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 583

No honour in honour killing

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 580

The Military Reshuffle: A strategic or routine decision?

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 579

Dr AQ Khan: Between a national hero and a nuclear proliferator

D. Suba Chandran
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 578

Tax avoidance: From Panama papers to Pandora Papers

Ankit Singh
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 577

Rising child abuse in Pakistan: Five reasons why

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 576

Hazara Persecution in Pakistan: No end in sight

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 575

Talking to the Pakistani Taliban: What did Imran say? And what does it mean?

D. Suba Chandran
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Pakistan Reader
October 2021 | CWA # 574

Protests in Gwadar: Who and Why

D. Suba Chandran
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NIAS Europe Monitor
October 2021 | CWA # 573

Europe's Energy Crisis: It could get worse. Five reasons why

Chetna Vinay Bhora
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
October 2021 | CWA # 570

Cover Story: War against Malaria

STIR Team
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Conflict Weekly
October 2021 | CWA # 568

ISIS violence in Afghanistan, and Targeted killings in J&K

IPRI Team
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East Asia
October 2021 | CWA # 567

Japan: New Prime Minister, Old party

Aswathy Koonampilly
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The World this Week
October 2021 | CWA # 566

Europe's Energy Crisis

GP Team
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
October 2021 | CWA # 564

The Science and Politics of Materials

STIR Team
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NIAS Europe Monitor
September 2021 | CWA # 562

France: Paris Terror Trial

Sourina Bej
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NIAS Europe Monitor
September 2021 | CWA # 561

Belarus: Weaponization of the Migrant Crisis

Harini Madhusudan
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NIAS Fortnightly on ​​​​​​​Science, Technology and International Relations (STIR)
September 2021 | CWA # 556

When Science, Technology and Innovation meet Society

STIR Team
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The World This Week
September 2021 | CWA # 553

20 years after 9/11, Paris terror trial, and a new government in Lebanon

GP Team
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Pakistan Reader
September 2021 | CWA # 552

Attacks on Chinese Investments in Pakistan: Who, Where And Why?

Juan Mary Joseph
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Latin America
September 2021 | CWA # 551

Haiti: Two months after the assassination, the storm is still brewing

Joeana Cera Matthews 
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NIAS Europe Monitor
September 2021 | CWA # 550

From Crimea to Navalny: Putin's calibrated Europe strategy

Joeana Cera Matthews 
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NIAS Europe Monitor
September 2021 | CWA # 548

Nord Stream-2: Why is the region unhappy about the pipeline?

Joeana Cera Matthews 
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Conflict Reader
September 2021 | CWA # 547

Two months of Cuban protests: Is the ‘revolution’ ending?

Lokendra Sharma
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Afghanistan
September 2021 | CWA # 545

In Afghanistan, the Indian influence will not fade: Four reasons why

Bhuvan Ningania
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
September 2021 | CWA # 544

Drones: The Evolution, Types, Hypes and Controversies

STIR Team
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The World This Week
September 2021 | CWA # 543

The New Afghanistan

GP Team
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The World This Week
August 2021 | CWA # 541

Kamala Harris' visit to Southeast Asia

GP Team
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
August 2021 | CWA # 539

Climate Change and Energy Options 

STIR Team
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The World This Week
August 2021 | CWA # 537

Taliban's friendly neighbourhood: China, Russia and Pakistan

GP Team
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Conflict Weekly 84
August 2021 | CWA # 536

Return of the Taliban and the fall of Afghanistan

IPRI Team
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Pakistan Reader
August 2021 | CWA # 535

Digital Pakistan: Idea, Potential and Challenges

Apoorva Sudhakar
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NIAS Africa Monitor
August 2021 | CWA # 534

South Africa: What is behind the pro-Zuma protests?

Anu Maria Joseph
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NIAS Southeast Asia Monitor
August 2021 | CWA # 533

China and Russia in Myanmar: The interests that bind 

Dincy Adlakha
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NIAS Europe Monitor
August 2021 | CWA # 532

Nord Stream 2 is Russia’s geopolitical victory

Sarthak Jain
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The World This Week
August 2021 | CWA # 531

The rise of Delta variant, and the fall of Afghan State

GP Team
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Cyber Security
August 2021 | CWA # 530

REvil is dead. Long live REvil

Jeshil J Samuel
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
August 2021 | CWA # 528

Space Tourism

STIR Team
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
July 2021 | CWA # 523

Heatwaves: Global warming is a global warning

STIR Team
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Conflict Weekly
July 2021 | CWA # 521

Floods in Germany, Wildfires in Siberia and the Pegasus Spyware

IPRI Team
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NIAS Europe Monitor
July 2021 | CWA # 520

The EU Summit 2021: Five Takeaways

Keerthana Rajesh Nambiar
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NIAS Africa Monitor
July 2021 | CWA # 519

Impending famine in Tigray, should make Ethiopia everyone's problem

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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NIAS Africa Monitor
July 2021 | CWA # 518

Too late and too little is Ethiopia's international problem

Anu Maria Joseph
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NIAS Africa Monitor
July 2021 | CWA # 517

Africa's Ethiopia Problem

Sankalp Gurjar
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NIAS Africa Monitor
July 2021 | CWA # 516

Ethiopia's Tigray problem is Tigray's Ethiopia problem

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Fukushima: A Decade after
July 2021 | CWA # 515

The future of nuclear energy looks bleak

Lokendra Sharma
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Afghanistan
July 2021 | CWA # 514

Five reasons why Afghanistan is closer to a civil war

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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NIAS Africa Monitor
July 2021 | CWA # 512

Migration in Africa: Origin, Drivers and Destinations 

Mohamad Aseel Ummer
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China Reader
July 2021 | CWA # 511

The new three-child policy is two decades too late

Dincy Adlakha
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China Reader
July 2021 | CWA # 510

Loud Echoes of the National Security Law in China

Dincy Adlakha
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The G7 Summit 2021
July 2021 | CWA # 509

Farfetched goals on pandemic recovery, climate action and economic revival

Joeana Cera Matthews 
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
July 2021 | CWA # 506

Rare Earths and the Global Resource Race

STIR Team
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The World This Week
July 2021 | CWA # 505

Haiti's political crisis, and China's control of tech giants

GP Team
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The World This Week
July 2021 | CWA # 503

Hundred Years of Communist Party of China 

GP Team
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
June 2021 | CWA # 501

The Rise and Reign of Ransomware

SDP Scholar
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Conflict Weekly 76
June 2021 | CWA # 499

The US Juneteenth, UN resolution on Myanmar and Global Peace Index

IPRI Team
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Global Politics
June 2021 | CWA # 498

India and the geopolitics of supply chains 

Gurpreet Singh
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NIAS Europe Monitor
June 2021 | CWA # 497

Spain, Morocco and the rise of rightwing politics in Europe over immigration

Chetna Vinay Bhora
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The World This Week
June 2021 | CWA # 495

G7, NATO and Biden-Putin summits, and the Iran elections

GP Team
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NIAS Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
June 2021 | CWA # 493

The Rise of Cryptocurrency,Black Carbon deposition leads to glacier retreat in the Himalayas, Advancing Commercial Space Travel

SDP Scholars
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China's new dams in the Yarlung Tsangpo
June 2021 | CWA # 490

India should invest in technology to meet China's water challenge

Sarthak Jain
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Nepal's Political Crisis
June 2021 | CWA # 489

Fresh election-call mean unending cycle of instability

Sourina Bej
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Afghanistan
June 2021 | CWA # 488

The return of Taliban will be bad news for women

Vibha Venugopal
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Supply Chain Resilience Initiative
June 2021 | CWA # 487

The SCRI will fail before it takes off, for three reasons

Dincy Adlakha
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
June 2021 | CWA # 486

Revisiting the recent violence: Three takeaways

Udbhav Krishna P
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Taiwan, the US and China
June 2021 | CWA # 485

For the Economist, Taiwan is the most dangerous place. The argument is complicated

Joeana Cera Matthews
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COVID and the Vaccine Diplomacy
June 2021 | CWA # 483

Though the US is late to the race, it has an edge. Three reasons why

Julia Mathew
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NIAS- SDP Fortnightly on Science, Technology & International Relations
June 2021 | CWA # 479

US, China, and the race to Mars, Cryptocurrencies face a setback as states pose hurdles, Polar Regions and Climate Change

SDP Scholars
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Conflict Weekly 72
May 2021 | CWA # 477

Ceasefire in Israel, NLD ban in Myanmar and a new Belarus crisis

IPRI Team
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NIAS Africa Monitor
May 2021 | CWA # 470

15 of the 23 global hunger hotspots are in Africa. Three reasons why

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Afghanistan 
May 2021 | CWA # 469

The US decision to withdraw is a call made too early. Three reasons why

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Punching above the COVID weight
May 2021 | CWA # 467

Learning from Cuba's vaccine development efforts 

Lokendra Sharma
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NIAS GP Debate on Climate Change
May 2021 | CWA # 466

The US' Leaders Summit on Climate: Global Issue, Regional Prisms

GP Team
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Fukushima: A Decade After
April 2021 | CWA # 462

An energy mix of renewables and nuclear is the most viable option

V S Ramamurthy and Dinesh K Srivastava
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India and COVID-19
April 2021 | CWA # 461

Deadly second wave spirals into a humanitarian disaster

Lokendra Sharma
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Politics over Rare Earths
April 2021 | CWA # 459

The Greenland election result is all about eco-geopolitics, and growing Chinese interests

Harini Madhusudan
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The World This Week
April 2021 | CWA # 452

The WHO Report on COVID-19, and Brazil's political crisis

GP Team
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Afghanistan
March 2021 | CWA # 451

The US-Taliban Deal: One Year Later

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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NIAS GP Debate on Quad
March 2021 | CWA # 450

The Quad Plus and the search beyond the four countries

Akriti Sharma
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NIAS GP Debate on Quad
March 2021 | CWA # 449

Despite the economic challenges, there are opportunities for Quad

Avishka Ashok
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NIAS GP Debate on Quad
March 2021 | CWA # 448

India's Endgames, Roles and Limitations in Quad

Apoorva Sudhakar
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NIAS GP Debate on Quad
March 2021 | CWA # 447

Tracing the Quad's evolution in the last two decades

Sukanya Bali
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The World This Week
March 2021 | CWA # 441

Quad Summit, Ten Years of Fukushima and China's Two Sessions

GP Team
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Conflict Reader
February 2021 | CWA # 435

Ethiopia: Five fallouts of the military offensive in Tigray

Apoorva Sudhakar
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Conflict Reader
February 2021 | CWA # 434

Afghanistan: The recent surge in targeted killing vs the troops withdrawal

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Abortions, Legislations and Gender Protests
February 2021 | CWA # 433

In Argentina, an extraordinarily progressive law on abortion brings the Conservatives to protest

Avishka Ashok
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Abortions, Legislations and Gender Protests
February 2021 | CWA # 432

In Poland, the protests against the abortion law feed into anti-government sentiments

Harini Madhusudan
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Abortions, Legislations and Gender Protests
February 2021 | CWA # 431

In Honduras, a move towards a permanent ban on abortion laws

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Abortions, Legislations and Gender Protests
February 2021 | CWA # 430

In Thailand, the new abortion law poses more questions

Sukanya Bali
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Conflict Reader
February 2021 | CWA # 429

Civilian protests vs military: Three factors will decide the outcome in Myanmar

Aparupa Bhattacherjee
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Climate Change
February 2021 | CWA # 428

Trump’s Climate Change legacy: Disruption and Denial

Abigail Miriam Fernandez
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Global Politics
February 2021 | CWA # 427

Trump’s Iran legacy: Maximum pressure, minimum results

Apoorva Sudhakar
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India and Sri Lanka
February 2021 | CWA # 422

Five ways India can detangle the fishermen issue with Sri Lanka

N Manoharan and Drorima Chatterjee
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Conflict Weekly 56
February 2021 | CWA # 420

Coup in Myanmar and Protests in Russia

IPRI Team
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Pakistan This Week
January 2021 | CWA # 411

The Hazaras protest over burying the dead; PM says don’t blackmail me

D Suba Chandran
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Pakistan This Week
January 2021 | CWA # 408

The PDM differences, Gwadar fencing, and Lakhvi's arrest

D Suba Chandran
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PR Chari                                   General Dipankar Banerjee

This initiative is a tribute to Mr PR Chari and Gen Dipankar Banerjee, who provided a vital breakthrough for many young scholars, gave them a space to grow and made the budding academics to believe in themselves. "Capacity Building" was their belief; they practised the same in the multiple institutions they served and built. Many leading scholars across the world today, penned their first essay under the mentorship of these two legends.

Mr Chari and Gen Banerjee, we owe you. And we will continue the tradition that you have set.

D. Suba Chandran
Professor and Dean, NIAS