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Indian Moon probe’s failure won’t stop an Asian space race that threatens regional security

Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies On Sept........

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What is Ashura? How this Shiite Muslim holiday inspires millions

Noorzehra Zaidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 15 September 2019 Tens of millions of Shiite.......

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I researched Uighur society in China for 8 years and watched how technology opened new opportunities – then became a trap

Darren Byler, University of Washington 18 September 2019 The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group.......

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Howdy Modi in Houston: why India’s Narendra Modi puts so much effort into wooing the diaspora

Ian Hall, Griffith University 23 September 2019 With President Donald Trump as his “warm up.......

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With 15 other children, Greta Thunberg has filed a UN complaint against 5 countries. Here’s what it’ll achieve

Juliette McIntyre, University of South Australia 26 September 2019 Yesterday, climate activist Greta Thunberg joined.......

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Gandhi’s 150th birthday: A little-remembered philosopher translated the Mahatma’s ideas of nonviolence for Americans

John Charles Wooding, University of Massachusetts Lowell 3 October 2019 October this year marks Mahatma.......

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Where Kashmir fits within India’s national memory – and what impact removing its special status could have

Isha Dueby, Lund University 8 October 2019 A few years ago, the Jammu and Kashmir.......

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Myanmar might finally be held accountable for genocide, but the court case must recognise sexual violence

Susan Hutchinson, Australian National University 17 October 2019 It has been more than two years.......

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India’s social media content removal order is a nail in the coffin of the internet as we know it

Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Bond University In recent weeks, India’s High Court of Delhi put.......

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The fight to select the next Dalai Lama

China wants to take the sacred decision away from Tibetan Buddhists By Brooke Schedneck 9.......

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Rivers are changing all the time, and it affects their capacity to contain floods

Louise Slater, University of Oxford; Abdou Khouakhi, Loughborough University, and Robert Wilby, Loughborough University The.......

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Why Hindu nationalists are cheering moves to build a temple, challenging a secular tradition

Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University 18 November 2019 A five-judge panel of the Indian Supreme Court.......

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Chagos Islands: UK refusal to return archipelago to Mauritius show the limits of international law

Miriam Bak McKenna, Lund University 28 November 2019 The UK government has failed to comply.......

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India’s plan to identify ‘illegal immigrants’ could get some Muslims declared ‘foreign’

Haimanti Roy, University of Dayton The Indian government will soon ask its 870 million voting-age.......

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This Bangladeshi man’s story shows why linking climate change with conflict is no simple matter

Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, United Nations University 16 December 2019 From Sudan to Syria to Bangladesh, climate.......

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In India’s Assam, a solidarity network has emerged to help those at risk of becoming stateless

by Anuradha Sen Mookerjee December 16, 2019 Disclosure statement Anuradha Sen Mookerjee currently does not.......

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Conservative Islamic views are gaining ground in secular Bangladesh and curbing freedom of expression

Anders C. Hardig, American University 18 February 2020 Bangladesh has seen an increase in terrorist.......

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Kashmir: why Trump’s offer of international mediation is a good idea

Saloni Kapur, Lancaster University 18 February 2020 Before a recent meeting in Davos with Pakistani.......

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100,000 Indians say ‘Namaste Trump’ and the president ignores some key human rights concerns

Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University 27 February 2020 President Donald Trump kicked off his first official.......

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Indian women protest new citizenship laws, joining a global ‘fourth wave’ feminist movement

Alka Kurian, University of Washington, Bothell Women are among the strongest opponents of two new.......

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