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Of Climbers and Fallers: How the Election of Dalveer Bhandari is Part of a Power Game

By Jitendra Nath Misra Short of a political tsunami, a failure of State or a devastating natural calamity, change in the international system tends to be incremental. Dalveer Bhandari’s victory over Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is exactly the sort of gradual change which occurs when established and rising powers jostle. […]

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USA – North Korea, an impending war

We live in the age where a diplomatic lunch between the heads of states of two countries gets cancelled due to the food menu, an age where diplomats indulge into name-calling and use false facts and images to gain global sympathy, an age where aims and aspirations of nations have made the value of human […]

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UN & US: A Voyage in Making?

– Rishi Jain The United States of America, a country which has been the epitome for decades for playing and dictating the world politics, vicariously, if not directly to its own wishes, has played a rather crucial role in the formation of United Nations. United Nations is a body having 193 countries as its members. […]

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Security Council Reforms (Will India become a permanent member?) by Ambassador Prakash Shah*

If a country which is the largest democracy in the world, has a population of some 1.3 billion people, is multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-faceted, has provided the largest number of soldiers to UN’s peacekeeping operations, has played an important role in peacemaking, and has a major say in its regions affairs cannot be a permanent member of […]