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Brahma Chellaney

Writing for PS since 2009
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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. China Must Not Choose the Next Dalai Lama
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    China Must Not Choose the Next Dalai Lama

    Jun 21, 2024 Brahma Chellaney urges the US and India to work together to protect the more than 600-year-old institution.

  2. Is the Quad Becoming a Potemkin Alliance?
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    Is the Quad Becoming a Potemkin Alliance?

    May 22, 2024 Brahma Chellaney fears that US President Joe Biden’s conciliatory approach toward China is undermining Indo-Pacific security.

  3. The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Apr 24, 2024 Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.

  4. The South China Sea Could Boil Over
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    The South China Sea Could Boil Over

    Mar 20, 2024 Brahma Chellaney blames successive US administrations for enabling Chinese President Xi Jinping's aggressive expansionism.

  5. The Coming Taiwan Crisis
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    The Coming Taiwan Crisis

    Feb 7, 2024 Brahma Chellaney worries that the island’s subjugation will be gradual, with no US-led response coming until it is too late.

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    Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right

    Ngaire Woods urges policymakers to reconsider both their message and their medium to reach disaffected younger voters.
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    Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa

    Linguère Mously Mbaye calls for a paradigm shift in how immigration policies are discussed, designed, and implemented.
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    The Digital Economy’s Growing Time Tax

    Diane Coyle explains why, instead of simplifying daily life, technological innovation is making it more burdensome.
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    How South Korea Broke the Development Mold

    Keun Lee attributes the country's economic success to the government's willingness to stray from prescribed orthodoxy.
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    The Dominican Success Story

    Iván Duque Márquez attributes President Luis Abinader’s landslide re-election to his pro-business policies and social spending.
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    The Profit Trap

    Jean-Baptiste Wautier

    Purpose must replace profit as the primary objective driving companies and markets. Although restructuring capitalism around this principle may seem like a tall order, it is not only possible but necessary.

     considers why capitalism is creating problems instead of solving them, and how to save the system from itself.
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    From the Washington Consensus to the Berlin Declaration

    Dani Rodrik, et al.

    Dozens of leading economists and practitioners convened in Berlin at the end of May for a summit organized by the Forum for a New Economy. Remarkably, the summit led to something resembling a new understanding that may replace the decades-long reign of neoliberal orthodoxy.

     tout a new understanding by leading economists about what policymakers must do to preempt the populist threat.
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    The Eclipse of the Petrodollar

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how digitalization and geopolitical risk are giving rise to alternative payment mechanisms.
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    Russia’s Triple Win in the South Caucasus

    Djoomart Otorbaev deciphers the causes and implications of the shifting allegiances of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.

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