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The World This Year

What happened, What paused and What failed

23 December 2020

By Global Politics Team

NIAS Global Politics Course

The World This Year: 
What happened, What paused and What failed

23 December 2020, Wednesday, 0930-1700 hrs
 
NIAS Global Politics brings out a weekly alert - The World This Week (TWTW), an academic initiative of the course and the alert aims to provide its readers with a ready reckoner of major developments during the week. The World This Year, an extension of the TWTW, looks into major developments in 2020 with a larger analysis, from an annual prism.

The workshop on 23 December highlights ten major developments from around the world and also focus on developments in specific regions - from East Asia to the Americas. 
Programme 
 
1000-1030 hrs: Introduction and Welcome
Introduction by Prof D Suba Chandran, Dean, School of Conflict and Security Studies, NIAS
Inaugural Address by Prof Shailesh Nayak, Director, NIAS
About TWTW: Rashmi Ramesh, PhD Scholar, NIAS
Dr Nanda Kishor, Head, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, MAHE, Manipal
Dr Teshu Singh, Research fellow, VIF, New Delhi

1030-1145 hrs: Top ten issues this year-I
Brexit: The rise and fall of negotiations
Sourina Bej, Project Associate, NIAS

US-China: Continuing confrontation
Gunjan Singh, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

5G, TikTok and Huawei: The rise of technology in IR
Sukanya Bali, Research Associate, NIAS

Abraham Accords: Changing alignments in the Middle East
Rashmi Ramesh, PhD Scholar, NIAS

1145-1300 hrs:  Top ten issues this year -II
COVID-19: How the world fought
Sumedha Chatterjee, MPhil Scholar, Trinity College, University of Dublin

Outer space: Missions, Policies, Debates on treaties
Harini Madhusudan, PhD Scholar, NIAS

The US elections
Lakshmi Karlekar, Postgraduate Scholar, Christ deemed to be University

Concretising the Indo-Pacific
Dr Vivek Mishra, Research Fellow, ICWA

1400-1500 hrs: Top Five developments from the regions- I
East Asia
Dr Sandip Mishra, Associate Professor, Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, JNU

Southeast Asia
Dr Bibhu Prasad Routray, Director, Mantraya, Goa

South Asia
Dr Mollica Dastidar, Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and Politics Theory, SIS, JNU

Africa
Ms Apoorva Sudhakar, Research Associate, Conflict Resolution and Peace Research Programme, NIAS.

1500-1630 hrs: Top Five developments from the regions- II
The Middle East 
Dr Stanly Johny, International Affairs Editor, The Hindu

Europe
Dr Teiborlang T. Kharsyntiew, Assistant Professor, Centre for European Studies, SIS, JNU

The Americas
Dr Aparaajita Pandey, Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Public Policy, New Delhi

The Maritime
Prof A Subramanyam Raju, Centre for Maritime Studies, Pondicherry University

The Space
Prof Rajaram Nagappa, Visiting Professor, ISSSP, NIAS
 
Vote of Thanks 
Lokendra Sharma, PhD Scholar, NIAS 

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