Course Scholars

Rashmi Ramesh

Rashmi Ramesh is currently pursuing PhD at the National Institute of Advanced Studies.

Rashmi completed her BA in Economics, Political Science and Sociology from Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. She holds a Masters Degree in Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. Previously she had interned at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and the United Services Institution of India (USI), both based in New Delhi. Her research interests include maritime security, Indian Ocean affairs, Geopolitics and climate change in the Arctic, and India's foreign policy.


GP Commentaries
EUROPE: HEATWAVES, WILDFIRES, DROUGHTS, AND ICE MELT IN ALPS
Ice Melt in Alps in Europe: Three impacts

November 2022 | CWA # 839

Rashmi Ramesh

NIAS Maritime Studies
Building Ocean Governance from Below: Role of The Indigenous Communities

May 2022 | CWA # 735

Rashmi Ramesh

The World This Year
Abraham Accords: Rethinking Diplomacy and Restructuring Priorities in the Middle East

December 2020 | CWA # 399

Rashmi Ramesh

US and the Middle East
Trump legacy leaves negligible space for any policy changes

December 2020 | CWA # 384

Rashmi Ramesh

Global Protest Movements
Climate Change Protests: Now moving out of the COVID-19 shadow

October 2020 | CWA # 366

Rashmi Ramesh

GLOBAL PROTEST MOVEMENTS
#FridaysforFuture: The global protests against Climate Change

September 2020 | CWA # 343

Rashmi Ramesh

United against COVID-19
Will COVID-19 provide a new agenda to the NAM?

May 2020 | CWA # 281

Rashmi Ramesh

The NIAS Arctic Series
The EU and the Arctic: The interest is not mutual. Why?

March 2020 | CWA # 250

Rashmi Ramesh

The NIAS Arctic Series
Iceland, Denmark and Norway: Small is Big in the Arctic

March 2020 | CWA # 249

Rashmi Ramesh

India and the US
Trump's India Visit: Optics, Substance and Rhetoric

February 2020 | CWA # 234

Rashmi Ramesh

Strategic Forecast 2020
Addressing Climate Change: Calamities, Risks and Protests in 2020

February 2020 | CWA # 229

Rashmi Ramesh

The World This Year
Climate Change in 2019: Active Civil Society, Hesitant State

December 2019 | CWA # 193

Rashmi Ramesh

The NIAS Arctic Series
The Arctic Littorals: Iceland and Greenland

November 2019 | CWA # 185

Rashmi Ramesh

Europe
Is Catalonia Spain’s Hong Kong?

November 2019 | CWA # 179

Rashmi Ramesh

The UN Climate Action Summit 2019
Climate Change: Four Actors, No Action

October 2019 | CWA # 169

Lakshman Chakravarthy N & Rashmi Ramesh

Climate Change
From Okjökull to OK: Death of a Glacier in Iceland

September 2019 | CWA # 161

Rashmi Ramesh

GP Insights
Saudi Arabia: Resumption of diplomatic ties with Iran

March 2023 | GP Insights # 693
Rashmi Ramesh

Iraq-Al-Sadr Withdraws, Protests Intensify

September 2022 | GP Insights # 656
Rashmi Ramesh

The Glasgow Compromise on Coal: Phasing down, instead of phasing out

November 2021 | GP Insights # 593
Rashmi Ramesh

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