The 2019 Indian elections concluded last week with a landslide victory for incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). The BJP secured a…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Respond to Modi’s Landslide Victory
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RPI Director Deepa M. Ollapally’s East Asia Forum article “Between Hope and Fear: National Security and the Indian Elections,” examines the context of the political parties’…
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On April 22, 2019, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US would cease granting exemptions to countries that import oil from…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Wary over Escalation in Iran Deal Dispute
April 25-27th, Beijing hosted the Second Belt and Road Forum (BRF) to promote its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) regional connectivity project. Notably absent were…
On March 27, India successfully conducted its Mission Shakti anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test, in which it destroyed one of its Low Earth Orbit satellites. Prior…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Silent on India’s Anti-Satellite Defense Milestone
On March 15, an Australian-born, white-supremacist attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The death toll stands at fifty, with dozens more still in hospital…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Condemn Christchurch Terror Attack
On February 14th, 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a terrorist attack in the Pulwama district on the Indian side of…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Wary on India-Pakistan Tension
On February 27 and 28, 2019, United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam for the second…
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Tensions between India and Pakistan have continued to escalate following last week’s car bombing in the disputed Kashmir region that left more than 40 Indian…
Continue reading Mixed Demands for India’s Response to Terror Attack in Kashmir
The failed negotiations over the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) between the United States and Russia spiked concerns in rising powers about their…
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The 2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) opened in the Swiss town of Davos last week to muted response. Many western media outlets, such as CNN,…
Nestled between India and China, the landlocked country of Nepal is a geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse nation. The opening line of the Nepalese national…
Continue reading From the Field: Nepal-Equity, Diversity, and “Quality” Education
The privatization of education has become an increasingly common phenomenon in developing countries where the quality of public education is questioned by the general population.…
Continue reading From the Field: Local Perceptions of “Quality Education” in Nepal
RPI Director Deepa M. Ollapally’s article, “India Needs to Keep Its Friends Close and Its Rivals Closer,” was published in the online platform East Asia…
Continue reading India needs to keep its friends close and its rivals closer
After a tumultuous 2018 that saw the beginning of a trade war, US withdrawals from treaties on nuclear missiles and Iran, and historic summits with…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers’ New Year Resolutions
