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144427
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The evolution of the international system demonstrates the realistic view that states pursue national interests in a largely lawless global arena where only power counts. Vinod Khobragade highlights the prevailing hostilities and rapprochements amongst major states in various regions of the world.
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144436
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Sameera Saurabh portrays the strengths and resources of BRICS member states and details the agenda laid out for the year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “building responsive, inclusive and collective solutions”. She notes that BRICS has evolved into a political alliance as well as a focussed cooperative, reshaping the global order through various new international institutions.
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144428
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B Ramesh Babu argues that the security and welfare of all individuals is more important than the narrow elitist concern for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation-state. He analyses the conceptual evolution of the doctrine of human security.
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144431
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Kamal Wadhwa depicts Iran as a nation conflicted between its Indo-European, monarchical and rather sybaritic culture and a more austere Islamic heritage. Although the Shah’s rapid and often ruthless modernising pro-Western reforms sowed widespread domestic discontent that led to his fall, the results of his efforts at economic and social development are now pushing Iran away from the current theocracy.
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144432
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While the phenomenon of migration is as old as humanity, it has been analysed as an economic and political factor only in the last two centuries. Beena Kirad notes that mass migrations in South Asia in the twentieth century substantially altered demographic and cultural characteristics in affected regions. Since the seventies, the large-scale exodus of Afghans into Pakistan has generated ethnic strife, economic problems and a criminalisation of the host society.
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144430
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The long-standing American policy of fighting leftist or nonaligned regimes in the Middle East through radical Islamist insurgencies has had disastrous consequences, one of the more recent being the rise of the Islamic State. P Krishna Mohan Reddy and C Sheela Reddy observe that the West now seems confused and unwilling to play a decisive role in the expanding war, which can only be settled through the mediation of the major global powers.
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144435
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Olufemi Abifarin and Jimmy O Chijioke analyse current Western policies about homosexuality and look at the aetiology of this behaviour now made acceptable on the grounds of human rights. However, they contend that the pressure on and intimidation of African states by the West to force them to legalise same-sex marriage, violates the principles of the sovereignty of states and non-interference in the internal affairs of nations.
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ID:
144433
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With the dawn of the atomic age, nuclear weapons became the “pride” of many arsenals, until it was realised that subsequent proliferation threatened all life on Earth. According to Sindhu Vijayakumar, nuclear power politics in theory attempted to justify the use of these weapons, posing a challenge to ethics, law and humanity.
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ID:
144429
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Terrorism or any kind of uncontrolled violence perpetrated upon innocent civilians over a long period always results in large-scale migrations to “safer” places. According to Sudhanshu Tripathi, this raises a number of demographic, economic and political issues under the rubric of “geopolitics”. A vast influx of refugees tends to change the composition of native populations and may affect the prevalent nature of the local state and/or political system.
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ID:
144434
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Mithilesh Kumar examines the World Bank’s responses to the allegations of human rights violations entailed by projects it funds. He describes its Inspection Panel and analyses some of the cases that have come before it from different parts of the world.
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