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Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney

Writing for PS since 2009
183 commentaries
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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. The West’s Stealthy Assault on Democracy
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    The West’s Stealthy Assault on Democracy

    Sep 3, 2024 Brahma Chellaney decries leading powers' tacit acceptance of military regimes masked by civilian façades.

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    When Companies Fail to Learn, They Learn to Fail

    Ricardo Hausmann explains how the inability to identify and address knowledge gaps can doom even the most promising projects.
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    How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa

    Rim Berahab & Otaviano Canuto argue that policies must be structured to facilitate, not obstruct, the continent’s shift to renewables.
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    Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

    Ma Jun envisions regional arrangements that facilitate the exchange of climate-friendly goods and services.
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    Egypt’s Economic Crisis May Not Be Over

    Adnan Mazarei urges the international community to push for long-overdue governance and economic reforms.
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    Climate Displacement Is Also a Health Crisis

    Jayasree K. Iyer proposes a four-pronged strategy to ensure that essential medicines reach vulnerable populations.
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Kenneth Rogoff

    US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House represents a grave threat to Europe’s security, economy, and clean-energy transition. The European Union’s top priority must be to find ways to reduce energy prices, even if it means recalibrating some of its green policies.

    urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.
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    The New Washington Consensus

    Katharina Pistor

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, the image of Big Tech founders and CEOs filling the front row at Donald Trump’s inauguration is a manifesto. We have just watched private business take over the US government in broad daylight, and history suggests that this won’t end well.

    sees no daylight remaining between US private business and the federal government.
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    Economic Development after the Washington Consensus

    Karim El Aynaoui & Hinh T. Dinh propose a new policy framework adapted to an era that has rendered the prevailing growth model obsolete.
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    Yi Fuxian on China's decision-making, economic prospects, demographic crisis, and more

    Yi Fuxian warns that China's government and mainstream analysts are still underestimating the severity of the country's demographic crisis, identifies some of the gravest policy mistakes Donald Trump's administration is at risk of making vis-a-vis China, explains why China’s middle class will never be strong enough to bring about a democratic transition, and more.

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