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കേളുവേട്ടൻ പഠന ഗവേഷണ കേന്ദ്രം ആഗസ്ത് 9 സെമിനാർ അഗസ്ത് 9 - കോഴിക്കോട് എകെജി ഓഡിറ്റോറിയത്തിൽ... മതവംശീയവാദത്തിന്റെ അന്താരാഷ്ട്രതലത്തിലുള്ള ഭീഷണികളെയും നവമൂലധന താല്പര്യങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് സ്വതന്ത്രരാഷ്ട്രങ്ങളെയും ജനസമൂഹങ്ങളെയും അസ്ഥിരീകരിക്കുന്ന വർത്തമാന സാഹചര്യങ്ങളെയും വിശകലനം ചെയ്തു കൊണ്ട് ഡോ. കെ എം സീതി https://youtu.be/89rUR6uKBM8?si=XETSr4xOJ8qUP_Qa
Trading on Threats: Trump’s Coercive Tariff Diplomacy and Its Global Fallout
First Published in The Wire, 9 August 2025 Trump’s tariff regime is economic coercion disguised as strategy and discards open markets and multilateralism in favour of unilateral pressure. Donald Trump’s tariff strike on India has come [...]
തീരുവ രാഷ്ട്രീയവും തകരുന്ന വ്യാപാരബന്ധങ്ങളും
മാതൃഭൂമി ( ആഗസ്റ്റ് 8) ലേഖനത്തിന്റെ പൂർണരൂപം യുഎസ് പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഡൊണാൾഡ് ട്രംപ് മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നൽകിയത് പോലെതന്നെ ചെയ്തു. തന്റെ താക്കീതുകളും ഭീഷണികളും ഇന്ത്യയ്ക്കെതിരായ ശിക്ഷാനടപടികളാക്കി മാറ്റി. മോദിയുമായും ഇന്ത്യയുമായും ഏറെ കൊട്ടിഘോഷിക്കപ്പെട്ട "സൗഹൃദം" ഇപ്പോൾ പ്രതിസന്ധിയിലായി. ട്രംപിന്റെ വിലപേശൽ തന്ത്രങ്ങളുടെ കാപട്യവും കൗശലവും ഇന്ന് തുറന്നുകാട്ടപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. വ്യാപാരരംഗത്തെ അമേരിക്കയുടെ [...]
Eighty Years After Hiroshima: Nuclear Rivalries, New Technologies, and the Perilous Road Ahead
Published in Countercurrents, 6 August 2025Eighty years have passed since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seared the world’s conscience and introduced an age where the survival of nations could be decided in minutes. The [...]
The Palestine Question – The West and the ‘Rest’
The Palestine Question – The West and the ‘Rest’ France’s UN move, U.S. hypocrisy, and the future of two-state solution First published in The Wire, 31 July 2025 In a significant diplomatic move, France is [...]
Starvation and Silence: Gaza’s Agony and the World’s Indifference
First published in Countercurrents, 26 July 2025“They that die by famine die by inches” “Famine,” wrote Matthew Henry, “is not just a physical breaking but a slow erasure of hope.” Nowhere is this more true than [...]
Current Affairs
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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 [...]
Challenges to India’s Arctic policy amid great power rivalry
Published in Policy Circle, 26 June 2021 The Arctic geopolitics has recently witnessed growing big power involvement and rivalry. India’s policy response to the changing geopolitical realities has both challenges and limitations. The Arctic region is [...]
Global South Colloquy
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Spiritual Humanism in India’s Worldview: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s Enduring Legacy
First Published in Global South Colloquy, 5 September 2020 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, one of the captivating figures of modern India, has a number of facets to his complex personality. His long career as teacher of philosophy [...]
Islam, Buddhism, and the ‘fault lines’ of history
Islam, Buddhism, and the ‘fault lines’ of historyOn truth’s path, wise is mad, insane is wise.In love’s way, self and other are the same.Having drunk the wine, my love, of being one with you, I find [...]
Imran Khan’s Next Innings: Bowling Alone?
K.M. SEETHI First Published in Global South Colloquy, 26 June 2020 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has again a wrong ball in his hand which will surely hit headlines with fiddly pay-offs. The news that the [...]
Countercurrent
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Critical International Relations Theory: ‘Subversive’ Historicist Tradition
Robert Cox (1926-2018) Remembered K. M. Seethi First Published in Countercurrents, 2 November 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/11/02/historicizing-international-relations-theory-robert-cox-remembered/ http://ppesydney.net/tributes-to-robert-w-cox/ Robert Cox is a scholar-extraordinary in the discipline of International Relations (IR) His writings continued to inspire scholars in both [...]
Distress Signals from Colombo
Distress Signals from Colombo K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 30 October 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/30/distress-signals-from-colombo/ Sri Lanka has landed itself in an unexpected, unprecedented crisis with the President Maithripala Sirisena taking decisions having tricky political implications. Citing differences [...]
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 [...]