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(India) Transferable Development Rights and Mumbai (ORF)

ANIKET PAWAR The most important reform that needs to be introduced is to permit the use of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) across the entire State...

(Innovation/Technology) Fear and loathing of cryptocurrencies (ORF)

SHASHIDHAR K.J., SRINATH SRIDHARAN Governments must realise that cryptocurrencies were created as a reaction to neoliberal policies and wholly strive to understand how the state can...

(USA/Iran/Europe) The vital but delicate task of reviving the Iran deal (ORF)

RAKESH SOOD Time is running out for the Joe Biden administration, but there is an opportunity for Brussels to take a lead role https://www.orfonline.org/research/the-vital-but-delicate-task-of-reviving-the-iran-deal/

(Asia) Asian Military Spending: A sign of worsening security environment (ORF)

RAJESWARI PILLAI RAJAGOPALAN With no guarantee that the security environment in the Indo-Pacific will settle down any time soon, the expectation is that military spending...

(USA) Democracy in America: A New Era of Social Media Regulation? (Chatham House)

Participants Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America; Author, Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All; US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, 2009-11 Professor Jack...

(India) India’s Foreign Policy Challenges: A Balancing Act? (Chatham House)

Participants Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary of India Katherine Hadda, Adjunct Fellow, Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies, CSIS Rwitwika Bhattacharya, CEO, Swaniti Initiative Sir Vince Cable,...

(Europe/USA/Saudi Arabia) Not getting away with murder: How Europeans can shape US-Saudi diplomacy (ECFR)

Cinzia Bianco Europeans should resist the temptation to exploit the strain in the US-Saudi relationship for short-term, narrow, and self-interested gains https://ecfr.eu/article/getting-away-with-murder-how-europeans-can-shape-us-saudi-diplomacy/

(Russia) Moscow Angered but Not Deterred by Newest Round of Western Sanctions (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer After repeatedly and unsuccessfully pleading with the Kremlin to release imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the European Union and the United States, in...

(Russia/Iran) Including Iran in Moscow-Led Economic Group Will Upend Former Soviet Space (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Reports claiming that Russia will, within a few weeks, welcome Iran as a new member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) may be...

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