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Afghanistan: the end game
How would Afghanistan be affected once Americans pull their troops out from the country after a presence of 40 years?
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Iran: the Trump-Pompeo legacy and Biden’s early moves
Pompeo was constantly in search of ways to cast Iran as the primary source of problems in the Middle East
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Pakistan-US relations in the Biden era
It is unlikely that President Biden would concern himself directly with Pakistan
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Ethnicity and nation-building
Is it possible to reconcile ethnicity to nation-building?
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Emerging challenges to Hindutva
Several India-watchers saw ominous signs in these developments
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Saving the planet from disaster
Going in Biden’s favour is the widely shared sense of urgency created by raging wildfires, crippling hurricanes
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The Arab world after the ‘Spring of 2011’
To label political upheaval of early 2011 as the “Arab Spring” turned out to be the wrong metaphor for the Arab world
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The current state of the Chinese economy
It is not unusual for even serious economists to look at the same economy from very different angles
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Lessons from Trump’s second impeachment
It took a couple of centuries before the promise made in Declaration of Independence could be realised
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The state’s role in alleviating poverty
It is only twice in Pakistan’s 70-plus years of history that the state directly intervened to help the poor