Sreeram Chaulia
Arms and the merchants of death
Destructive spirals spun by the international weapons trade intensify war and bloodshed. Who are the kingpins of the arms-exporting business and why have they not been brought to book for endangering international peace and security? In a radical new book, The Economics of Killing:
Of suspicions, rivalries and double crossings
Since political control and legitimacy are maximised in the heartlands and usually taper off in the peripheries, the interstices between powerful nations have historically been frontier regions with no clear sovereign demarcation.
India’s foreign dreams must take flight
No Indian comes close to Shashi Tharoor in the contest for the title of “Mr International”. A former senior United Nations diplomat and minister of state for external affairs, Tharoor is the quintessential global public intellectual who packs strong ideational power and elegance in prose with a gift of the gab. This new, lengthy, non-fiction work cements his place as a cut above the rest among Indians writing on international affairs.
The all-American way is not India’s way
When nation states have the potential of breaking into the elite league of great powers, the paths they tread become topics of universal discussion.
