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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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Pakistan: Still ‘Under Increased Monitoring’ of FATF
K.M. Seethi First published in South Asia Analysis Group (Paper 6761, March 3, 2021) in arrangement with the Sri Lanka Guardian (March 3, 2021) and the Indian Defence Review (March 3, 2021)There is a great deal [...]
Military coup in Myanmar: ‘Garrison State’ back to dismantle democracy?
Fears of a military takeover in Myanmar came true in the early hours of 1 February when the powerful army resorted to a series of measures which included detention of the State Counsellor Aung San Suu [...]
Land jihad? The reality of land scam in Jammu and Kashmir
As the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) went to its first District Development Council (DDC) polls on 28 November 2020, several politicians, bureaucrats, law and order officials, businessmen and other beneficiaries of the [...]
Global South Colloquy
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Modi 2.0: India under ‘Charismatic Authoritarianism’?
K.M.Seethi First Published in Global South Colloquy, 27 May 2019 Read More http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/modi-2-0-india-under-charismatic-authoritarianism/ Also @ Countercurrents, 27 May 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/05/modi-2-0-india-under-charismatic-authoritarianism The ultra-Right BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) resounding victory in the 17th Lok Sabha elections in [...]
Countercurrent
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The Higher Education Commission of India Act, 2018
A Requiem for the University Grants Commission K.M.SEETHI First Published by Countercurrents, 1 July 2018 (https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/01/a-requiem-for-ugc/) If the Modi Government’s first year of its rule was marked by the burial of an important institution of national [...]
An IR Scholar with Practical Wisdom
An IR Scholar with Practical Wisdom – Prof K.R. Singh (1932-2018) Remembered KM SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 26 June 2018 There are not many International Relations (IR) scholars in India who can make a reasonable [...]
Kashmir in a dense cauldron of uncertainty
Kashmir in a dense cauldron of uncertainty K.M. SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 20 June 2018 Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) politics has once again entered a cycle of uncertainty following BJP’s decision to pull out of [...]