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  To Stop a Pandemic A Better Approach to Global Health Security The COVID-19 pandemic, in the words of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), “is a once-in-a-century health crisis.” Indeed, the last public health emergency to wreak such havoc was the great influenza pandemic that began in 1918, which sickened about a third of the world’s population and killed at least 50 million people. But because global conditions are becoming increasingly hospitable to viral spread, the current pandemic is unlikely to be the last one the world faces this century. It may not even be the worst. The novel coronavirus hit a world that was singularly unprepared for it. Lacking the capacity to stop the spread of the virus through targeted measures—namely, testing and tracing—countries were left with few options but to shut down their economies and order people to stay at home. Those policies worked well enough to slow the growth of cases by late sprin...

  S AARC And CPEC: Preparing For Future – OpEd The theoretical approaches of international relations such as Complex Interdependence and Regionalism explore the strategic dimensions associated with the economic corridors. Regionalism brings agreed-upon regional commitments into limelight in order to foster regional coordination for transforming pledges into actions. Through the process of Regionalism, many regions like Europe and East Asia have successfully moved forward from contentious issues to achieve common goals and fight trans-boundary conundrums such as Climate Change and COVID-19. In South Asia, the year 2020 marked the 35 th  anniversary of functioning of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The association was established with an aim to remain non-political and promote the welfare of the peoples of South Asia by improving their quality of lives and to accelerate economic growth, social progress and cultural development. The core objective be...

                                                   By: Anil Kumar                                                    CLIMATE CHANGE: IS IT TOO LATE TO ACT? 1. INTRODUCTION: a. A surge of climate change; an uncontested reality b. Its too late to act; a myopic conclusion c. Climate change and its solution; a real dilemma for humanity to resolve 2. CLIMATE CHANGE; A NEAR-EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANITY a. Rising sea-level is likely to submerge coastal areas b. Upsurge of novel viruses; a dangerous face of climate change c. Frequent natural disasters; a risk multiplier d. Forest burning and heatwave events 3. STEPS TAKEN BY WORLD COMMUNITY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE a. The Kyoto Protocol; a step in the right direct...

  Come September: Holding Stakeholders Responsible for the Chaos in Afghanistan Source: Al Jazeera Before we explore potential openings in the competing interests of South and Central Asian neighbors that Afghanistan has, we need to know whether Afghanistan itself has competing interests within. I do not believe that Afghanistan’s neighbors can support a singular framework for peace in Afghanistan for two simple pessimistic reasons emanating from some ground realities today: First, is there a vision of a ‘singular framework for peace’ in Afghanistan today which comes from within and is not imposed or asked to be adopted externally? Sadly, no. The Afghan government and the political elite in Afghanistan are at odds with the Taliban and their political and Islamic ideology. They accept the Taliban to be a part of the reality, they probably will also be alright with the power sharing formula, but they will never be OK with Taliban’s version of trade, energy, infrastructure, economic d...