A bloggingheads discussion with Dan Runde, Center for Strategic and International Studies Dan: Let’s focus on cooperation, not competition, with India A new foreign aid strategy: Spend less, do more The history of India refusing and belittling assistance How smart aid can save millions of lives India starts a foreign aid program Moving past outdated ...
Will the language of values return to the foreign policy of democracies after they attain a certain amount of power? (First of a two-part conversation with David Malone) Tweet ...
What happens when radically networked societies confront hierarchically structured states? Here’s a video recording of my talk at the Takshashila Shala in Chennai last Sunday. It doesn’t offer answers, but explores some of the questions that I’ve been thinking about. Onto some levity. V Keshav, The Hindu’s editorial cartoonist, who spoke on cartooning and politics ...
Jayant Choudhry, the Rashtriya Lok Dal MP from Mathura was the only legislator who expressed in the Lok Sabha concerns raised by citizens against the draconian Information Technology Rules (IT Rules) that came into effect this year. (More about what’s wrong with these rules in my DNA op-ed, Sunil Abraham and M R Madhavan in ...
The geopolitics of hope? Here’s a diavlog with Robert Wright, editor-in-chief of bloggingheads.tv on what they’ve titled as the geopolitics of hope. The conversation ranges from India-US relations, US-China relations, Af-Pak and even legitimacy of governments. So sit back relax, spill your coffee or Fall Off Your Chair™ Jump to segments: When American jobs go ...
A live, online interactive programme on strategic affairs, public policy and governance Here’s the recording of today’s INILive pilot. Update: Edited transcript of the initial remarks: In today’s programme I will analyse the issues related to the killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan last week. I will also try ...
My talk at MEA’s International Conference on Public Diplomacy 2010 Last week I spoke at a conference in New Delhi on how the proliferation of social networks is creating new imagined communities—that I call Netions—and how they are profoundly changing international politics. Video recordings of all the sessions are available at the conference website. Tweet ...