TERRI B CHAPMAN The World Bank estimates that 9.2 percent of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty and that an additional 119 and 124 million people have fallen into poverty due to the Covid-19 pandemic so far. But these...

Lipton Matthews Economists frequently tout trade as a mechanism to boost growth and living standards. Yet some continue to extol the virtues of protectionism. However, the internecine debate between free traders and protectionists is less interesting than interrogating why countries...

Connected and Co-operative Automated Mobility (CCAM) is becoming increasingly more important across Europe and beyond. This has been confirmed not only through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations based on the 2015 Paris agreement, but also through...

Hugh White, ANU   Washington is once again debating whether to declare that it will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. There are good reasons why it should. But it would not be right to suggest that a no-first use...

Debopama Bhattacharya   The anonymous chat rooms and communication services on the dark web have made it an ideal platform for planning and coordinating dangerous criminal and terrorist activities. Greater international cooperation and steps like automatic deletion of personal data...

Dhruva Jaishankar   Why has China become so vocal about racial tensions in the United States? At their March meeting in Alaska, Yang Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy official, took umbrage with US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s desire to...

ADITI MADAN   India as a country has one of the most skewed sex ratios in the world. According to the existing data, there are 5.7 percent more males in the country. However, the gender gap in the vaccination drive cannot...