The World Is Inching Towards A Multilateral Treaty On Plastic Pollution
Our planet is choking with plastic we produce, consume and dispose of. Plastic has become entangled with tradition and modernity. While plastic has been increasingly and immeasurably integrated into our daily lives for the last three decades, littering of single-use plastic items in our ecosphere severely affects terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.
Russia, Ukraine, and the Chemical Conundrum: Exploring the Use of White Phosphorus in Bakhmut
Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city, has been enduring the consequences of Russia's aggression since the outset of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Once known as Artemivsk, it retained this name until 2016, encompassing both the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. During the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers laid claim to Bakhmut as part of their territorial ambitions.
India's Multilateralism Reform: A Flawed Strategy
Multilateral institutions are neither geographically representative nor politically democratic institutions in the contemporary scenario.
Disinformation, CBW and COVID Concerns: Exploring the New Age Scourge
The growing trend of disinformation operations is weakening the trust in international community general and multilateral institutions in particular. The policy of biological weapons disinformation is being pursued by all the major powers, and quite interestingly, the victim of it is also from all the major global political groupings.
"How Russia turned America’s helping hand to Ukraine into a vast lie"
Information is the world’s lifeblood. It pulsates in torrents of facts and images. We are swamped with it.
India's Approach to Addressing Water Disputes with Pakistan: Exploring Options for Renegotiating the Indus Water Treaty
Pakistan must be prepared to renegotiate the treaty to accommodate new challenges especially mainstreaming climate change in IWT for its own benefit.
India's Ad-hoc Hydro-Diplomacy on the Brahmaputra
A dramatic title aimed at western influenced security scholars, 'Is China aiming to weaponize water'- in an English daily based in Geneva on 31st January, has once again triggered apprehensions in India of unilateral water diversion in the Brahmaputra River by China.
EJIS: "Disinformation in international politics"
Abstract: Concerns over disinformation have intensified in recent years. Policymakers, pundits, and observers worry that countries like Russia are spreading false narratives and disseminating rumours in order to shape international opinion and, by extension, government policies to their liking.