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Redlines In Kabul: Post-9/11 Promises And Predicament – OpEd
First Published in Eurasia Review, 11 September 2021; also posted in GSC Dossier, 11 Sep 2021 The 9/11 terrorist attacks had marked a defining moment in international relations. Even as the world community remembers its horrific [...]
The Taliban-In-Kabul: Between ‘Trust-Deficit’ And ‘Crisis As Opportunity’ – OpEd
First Published in Eurasia Review, 23 August 2021 The unfolding events in Afghanistan amid persisting uncertainty and growing anxiety in Kabul have a very complex, yet diverse responses—from state to nonstate actors, from thinktanks to political [...]
Spectres of Nuclear ‘MAD’ness: Between Deterrence and Survival
First published in Eurasia Review, 8 August 2021 With the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in place, is there an optimistic scenario of a nuclear-weapon free world? This might certainly be a [...]
Sherni and the ‘Hunting Tale’
You would have gone to the forest 100 times, but could spot a tiger only once. But, be rest assured, the tiger would have spotted you 99 times. Published in GSC Dossier, 30 July 2021; and [...]
Unrest in South Africa – A Deeper Malaise
First published in GSC Dossier, 19 July 2021; also appears in Eurasia Review Even as the world observed the Nelson Mandela Day on Sunday, South Africa had not yet recovered from the unrest and large-scale violence [...]
World Population: Shifts and Turns Amid COVID-19
First Published in Eurasia Review, 11 July 2021 Is the global population poised for a structural shift in the coming decades? This could probably be a major theme of discussion among demographers and social policy [...]
Current Affairs
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Strategic Turn-around in India-Russia Relations: South Asia Set to Witness Arms Build-up
Strategic Turn-around in India-Russia Relations K.M. SEETHI Published in Countercurrents, 13 October 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/13/strategic-turn-around-in-india-russia-relations-south-asia-set-to-witness-arms-build-up/ An abridged version appeared in Madras Courier, 11 October 2018 https://madrascourier.com/opinion/modis-push-for-a-multilateral-world/ The strategic turn-around in India-Russia relations is all too obvious with [...]
Trumponomics: Is Post-Fordism on Reverse Gear?
KM SEETHI Published in Countercurrents, 14 September 2018; also in William Bowels Info, 14 September 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/14/trumponomics-is-post-fordism-on-reverse-gear/ (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) US President Donald Trump has been speaking with hyperbole, over the [...]
Bolstering Nepal-China Connectivity: Kathmandu goes beyond a Zero-sum Game in South Asia
K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 9 September 2018. https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/09/bolstering-nepal-china-connectivity-kathmandu-goes-beyond-a-zero-sum-game-in-south-asia/ Nepal and China have made a significant step in bilateral relations by finalizing the text of the protocol to the proposed agreement that would help facilitate [...]