Global Politics Young Voices

The World This Year

30 December 2022

Programme

Inaugural Address
Prof Shailesh Nayak
Director, NIAS

Theme-I: Internal political developments

Myanmar: The Coup and after
Aparupa Bhattacherjee, PhD Scholar, NIAS     

Sri Lanka: Political and economic crises
Chrishari De Alwis Gunasekare, Project Coordinator, Sri Lanka Press Institute

China: 20th Party Congress 
Avishka Ashok, Research Associate, NIAS

China: The COVID protests 
Vinolia Rose, Postgraduate Scholar, Loyola College

Iran: Anti-government protests 
Kaviyadarshini Vairam, Postgraduate Scholar, Loyola College Chennai

Iraq: Deadlock and breakthrough
Rashmi Ramesh, PhD Scholar, NIAS

Tunisia: Back to square one
Apoorva Sudhakar, Research Associate, NIAS     

Ethiopia: Uncertainties despite ceasefire
Anu Maria Joseph, Research Assistant, NIAS     

The US: Overturning Roe vs Wade
Deyasree Dey, Postgraduate Scholar, Pondicherry University

Theme II: Bilateral/regional 

The Taiwan Strait: Political and military assertions  
Avishka Ashok, Research Associate, NIAS
 
China and the Middle East: Xi Jinping's visit 
Sapna Elsa Abraham, Research Officer, C3S, Chennai

North Korea: Continuing missile tests
Janardhan G, Postgraduate Scholar, MAHE

Elections in France, Sweden and Italy: Rise of the Right
Padmashree Anandhan, Research Associate, NIAS, &
Sourina Bej, PhD Scholar, University of Bonn, Germany 

Elections in Colombia, Chile and Brazil: Rise of the Left
Madhura Mahesh, Research Intern, NIAS

NATO and the Madrid Summit: Expanding defence frontiers
Padmashree Anandhan, Research Associate, NIAS

Yemen, Syria and Sudan: Continuing humanitarian crises
Mohaimeen Khan, Postgraduate Scholar, MAHE

France’s exit from Mali: More questions than answers 
Poulomi Mondal, Postgraduate Scholar, Pondicherry University

Theme- III: Global Developments

The War in Ukraine 
Padmashree Anandhan, Research Associate, NIAS

COP 27
Akriti Sharma, PhD Scholar, NIAS

G20 Summit
Avishka Ashok, Research Associate, NIAS

The JCPOA deadlock
Bhoomika Sesharaj, Research Intern, NIAS

The Space race
Harini Madhusudan, PhD scholar, NIAS

The FTX Collapse
Madhura Mahesh, Research Intern, NIAS

Elon Musk and the Twitter chaos
Bhoomika Sesharaj, Research Intern, NIAS

The Global Economic slowdown
Ankit Singh, PhD Scholar, NIAS

Theme-IV: Obituaries and Newsmakers

Obituaries

Shinzo Abe, Jiang Zemin, Queen Elizabeth, Mikhail Gorbachev 
Sethuraman Nadarajan, Research Assistant, NIAS

Newsmakers

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Pedro Castillo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Receppei Erdogan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Muqtada al-Sadr, S Jaishankar, Imran Khan, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mahsa Amini, Shireen Abu Akleh, Anwar Ibrahim, Lionel Messi, Elon Musk, Moroccan Football Team, Taliban

Allen Joe Mathew, Undergraduate Scholar, St Joseph’s University & Research Intern, NIAS,
Sayani Rana, Undergraduate Scholar, St Joseph’s University & Research Intern, NIAS, & 
Joel Jacob, Research Assistant, NIAS