No deal is a good deal, but the real deal is geopolitical
Back in October 2007, this blog had argued that because “it requires unprecedented international co-operation at a time of geopolitical flux…we can’t expect meaningful international co-operation on tacking climate change”. Instead “the immediate ray of hope is unilateral domestic action: states may be compelled [...]
The image on the cover of this month’s issue of Pragati is a painting by Azmat Ali that expresses the complexities involved in international efforts to address climate change. Climate change negotiations have now fully entered the foreign policy agenda. Our cover story highlights where India stands on this issue.
The other highlight is the first [...]
The plan to move a nation
Upon his election, Mohamed Nasheed, the new president of Maldives suggested that his government will “divert a portion of the…annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland—as an insurance policy against climate change.” While this prompted the Economist to engage in some levity—it proposed that Maldivian government buy Iceland or [...]
Poor management of groundwater resources contributes to agrarian distress—but is anyone listening?
Over at Reporting on a Revolution, Suvrat Kher throws more light on an angle that is almost entirely missing from the national discourse on farmers’ suicides.
…if the wells themselves are dry then there is no backup for failed rains. A Tata Institute of Social [...]
The fastest growing democracy is indeed transforming America and the world.
Mira Kamdar is right about one thing: not “all opponents of the deal (or even those who dare question some of its provisions)” should be smeared as “nonproliferation ayatollahs” and “enemies of India”. Some are merely confused. Like Ms Kamdar herself, for instance.
In her [...]
Making India’s defence policy consistent with its emergence as a significant global player.
Here’s a version of my essay that appeared in Pakistan’s The Friday Times July 11-17, 2008 | (Vol. XX, No. 21):
India’s armed forces, according to K Subrahmanyam, have “not modernised their decision-making process ever since Lord Ismay prescribed it in 1947. Command and [...]
The Indian National Interest community launches its first policy brief
Climate Change and National Security: Preparing India for New Conflict Scenarios
The global debate on whether there is indeed a process of anthropogenic climate change in progress has been for the most part settled by the international scientific consensus surrounding the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [...]
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