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The Gender Precedent
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The Meltwater Carries No Passport
X.T.M reports Anuradha Bhasin’s talk at Mela Nordic’s Stockholm Partition event, which proposed cross-border newsrooms, a shared archive and arts as empathy, and weighs it against earlier attempts such as…
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Two House Precedents
Two house precedents: online-safety reports must now reach the editors by email, and BP restates its aims as density (20 comments per post) and diversity (five voices per thread), with…
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Geography is Power
A reply to X.T.M’s post, this essay argues from realism that geography has shaped South Asian states’ trajectories, citing Mackinder and Spykman, Pakistan’s Cold War and GWOT frontier role, and…
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Pink boots
An open thread of quick reactions to World Cup matches: Germany and the Netherlands out, Brazil and Morocco through, pink boots, tiki-taka versus kick-and-run football, and the number of African-descended…
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Geography Is Not Power
India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty believing the upstream power holds the tap. It does not. From the Indus to the Nile, the country at the top of the river…
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Who did the Brits conquer India from?
Did the British take India from the Muslims or from the Hindus? The question cannot be answered, because it was never true. The empire they inherited had already fallen apart,…
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Precedent #1: No Warmongering
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South Asian Peace in Stockholm
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Pakistan, the Successor State to Islamistan
Pakistan is usually read as drifting ever deeper into theocracy. We argue the reverse: its elite has quietly secularised, keeping Islam as the national language while shedding it as the…
