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Brahma Chellaney

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Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, is the author of Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).

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  1. Bedlam in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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    Bedlam in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    May 24, 2023 Brahma Chellaney charts the countries' descent into turmoil and its implications for international security.

  2. The Sino-Indian Rivalry Is Reshaping Asia
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    The Sino-Indian Rivalry Is Reshaping Asia

    Apr 21, 2023 Brahma Chellaney explains why China committed a grave error by making a permanent enemy of its largest neighbor.

  3. America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Mar 23, 2023 Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.

  4. South Asia’s Looming Water War
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    South Asia’s Looming Water War

    Feb 16, 2023 Brahma Chellaney urges Pakistan to rethink its combative approach to an agreement that is a pillar of its own economy.

  5. The Limits of Japan’s Military Awakening
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    The Limits of Japan’s Military Awakening

    Jan 12, 2023 Brahma Chellaney urges the country to take a proactive approach to countering China’s hybrid warfare.

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    Nationalists Abroad

    Ian Buruma

    While facing an uphill political battle at home, Turkey’s recently re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan handily won the diaspora vote. He did so by capitalizing on the resentment and alienation felt by second- and third-generation Turkish immigrants who often feel estranged in the countries where they were born.

     explains how displacement can make expatriates and minorities more susceptible to extremist ideologies.
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    All Talk, No Dialogue on Asian Security

    Richard Maude

    Calls at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore to improve military-to-military communication between the US and China, especially in light of increasingly aggressive encounters at sea and in the air, fell on deaf ears. Despite the best efforts of the US and its allies, China is in no hurry to re-engage.

     considers the implications of the complete collapse of defense diplomacy between the US and China.
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    How AI Can Even the Climate Playing Field

    Maxwell Gomera shows how artificial intelligence can strengthen low-income countries' hand in global negotiations.
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    Strengthening the Global Balance Sheet

    Olivia White, et al. outline four medium-term scenarios for the world economy, each implying dramatically different outcomes.
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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner

    To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate solution creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.

     offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.

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