The Pakistan floods 2022 have woken the world up (including me) to the country’s acute climate…
Category: World
WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.
Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas, Arif…
COMMENT: ‘International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming’
According to IR textbooks, the United States, Russia, and China are on a collision course, writes…
Anywhere But Here: Where Did the Pandemic Start?
Jon Cohen in Science: When Alice Hughes downloaded a preprint from the server Research Square in September…
CONVERSATION: Western Hegemony is Nearing its End
UPDATED: The French President’s recent internal speech “foretells the future events that are likely to take…
COVID-19: Ye Hai Covid Meri Jan (Videos)
Select COVID-19 WhatsAppshares curated by Irshad Salim (Aug. 21, 2022)
Toward Understanding New World Order, as the World Turns
Illustrations By Irshad Salim (May 2021 – Aug 2022):
The World Is Seeing How the Dollar Really Works
Adam Tooze in Foreign Policy: 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power that manifests itself…
To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance
Cooperation Without Domination Jamie Martin in the Boston Review Class & Inequality: By the end of…
Nuclear Strategy and Ending the War in Ukraine
Oscar Arias and Jonathan Granoff in The Hill: The world is as close to the nuclear…