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Brahma Chellaney

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Brahma Chellaney, Professor Emeritus 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 nine books, including Water: Asia’s New Battleground (Georgetown University Press, 2011), for which he won the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award.

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  1. Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test
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    Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test

    Feb 11, 2025 Brahma Chellaney hopes that the US and Indian leaders take concrete steps to reset and deepen the bilateral relationship.

  2. Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?
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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Jan 13, 2025 Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.

  3. Bangladesh’s Descent into Islamist Violence
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    Bangladesh’s Descent into Islamist Violence

    Dec 5, 2024 Brahma Chellaney fears what will happen to Asian security if the country's interim government remains on its current path.

  4. America Must Stand Up to Asia's Bully
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    America Must Stand Up to Asia's Bully

    Nov 13, 2024 Brahma Chellaney urges Donald Trump’s incoming administration to push back against China’s aggressive expansionism.

  5. The BRICS Effect
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    The BRICS Effect

    Oct 18, 2024 Brahma Chellaney asks whether the group of major emerging economies can catalyze a long-overdue revamping of global governance.

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    A Westless World

    Tobias Bunde reflects on this year's Munich Security Conference and America's break from the transatlantic alliance.
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    Germany’s Last-Chance Election

    Michael Bröning

    With German voters clearly demanding comprehensive change, the far right has been capitalizing on the public's discontent and benefiting from broader global political trends. If the country's democratic parties cannot deliver, they may soon find that they are no longer the mainstream.

     explains why the outcome may decide whether the political “firewall” against the far right can hold.
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    The Only Path to Genuine Peace in Ukraine

    Nicu Popescu

    The Russian and (now) American vision of "peace" in Ukraine would be no peace at all. The immediate task for Europe is not only to navigate Donald’s Trump unilateral pursuit of a settlement, but also to ensure that any deal does not increase the likelihood of an even wider war.

     sees a Korea-style armistice with security guarantees as the only viable option in Ukraine.
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    Meltdown at the Top of the World

    Masatsugu Asakawa urges development banks to act urgently to avert the catastrophic effects of the Himalayas’ thawing glaciers.
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    The Economic Consequences of Trump’s Ukrainian Peace

    Gene Frieda

    Rather than engage in lengthy discussions to pry concessions from Russia, US President Donald Trump seems committed to giving the Kremlin whatever it wants to end the Ukraine war. But rewarding the aggressor and punishing the victim would amount to setting the stage for the next war.

     warns that by punishing the victim, the US is setting up Europe for another war.
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    There Goes America

    Within his first month back in the White House, Donald Trump has upended US foreign policy and launched an all-out assault on the country’s constitutional order. With US institutions bowing or buckling as the administration takes executive power to unprecedented extremes, the establishment of an authoritarian regime cannot be ruled out.

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    In AI We Trust?

    William H. Janeway

    The rapid advance of AI might create the illusion that we have created a form of algorithmic intelligence capable of understanding us as deeply as we understand one another. But these systems will always lack the essential qualities of human intelligence.

     explains why even cutting-edge innovations are not immune to the world’s inherent unpredictability.
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    How Trump Can Achieve Sustained Growth

    Michael R. Strain foresees the US president building on a strong economy, so long as he steers clear of populist policies.
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    Europe Alone

    Daniela Schwarzer explains what the European Union must do now that America has walked away from the transatlantic relationship.

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