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Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney

Writing for PS since 2009
163 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

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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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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek

    The European Jewish Association’s recent insistence on the exceptional nature of anti-Semitism raises important questions about the nature of privilege and oppression in contemporary societies. The risk is that the EJA’s conceptual framework could all too easily reproduce the very bigotry it seeks to oppose.

    sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

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