[카테고리:] Foreign Affairs
How Hindutva Recast Multi-Faith India as the Hindu Homeland
Narendra Modi / Illustration by Zeyd Anwar “Hindutva,” explained Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923, is “not a word, but a history.” It was introduced in a lengthy pamphlet, Essentials of Hindutva, which Savarkar wrote on the walls of his prison cell,…
Dont Write Off the Lab Leak Theory as a Conspiracy
Natalie Ng / Unsplash A warning: This article will not tell you whether SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab and set off the Covid-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 5 million people. I’m not even going to tell you…
Education in Afghanistan Has Always Been a Battlefield
Isaak Alexandre Karslian / Unsplash In the two decades that followed the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, significant progress was made in education in Afghanistan. By 2017, the number of schools had more than quintupled. School enrolment, from…
Legacies of the Cold War
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; New Politic Isuspect that none of my current students were even alive when the Cold War came to an end between 1989 and 1991. Indeed, to them, this long durée which meant so much to all…
For Democrats, Winning the Election Will Just Be the Start
The White House / Flickr The polls were correct. Joe Biden will become the next President of the United States. For Democrats, the victory will represent renewed hope. But they should not be too quick to celebrate. Mr Biden will…
European Culture Is an Invented Tradition
Left: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Center: Frederic Chopin. Right: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / New Politic Think of culture, of literature, music, philosophy, the fine arts, and it means thinking of Europe. “The idea of culture, of intelligence, of great works,” wrote…
A New Atlantic Charter for a New Age of Competition
Credits: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street At the June 2021 G7 meeting in Cornwall, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed a New Atlantic Charter to reaffirm their nations’ commitment to a rules-based, and…
Could Taiwan Be Next?
As the world has watched Russian missiles bomb apartments in Ukraine and Russian tanks travelling towards Kiev, the commentariat have made sure to remind people of the other major event with the potential to threaten global security: a Chinese invasion…
The Need For European Security
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the importance of European Union membership — of a secure bloc that can fight together against external threats. Watching Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine play out it seems he has vastly underestimated Ukraine, its president…
How To Tackle Putin
Russia’s descent into repression under Vladimir Putin reached a tipping point with his decision to invade Ukraine. During this full-scale, unlawful military invasion, he has threatened any country trying to intervene with harsh consequences, which some worry may involve nuclear…