Peeking Duck: Recent Episodes
Hamsini Hariharan
Ameya Naik joins host, Hamsini Hariharan to discuss international law and how it measures up in the current geopolitics.
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Read More:
- The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century
- The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
- The Politics of Collective Violence
- When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
- The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
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Munish Sharma joins Hamsini Hariharan on a new episode of States of Anarchy to discuss 5G technology and it's associated risks.
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Read More:
- The Road to 5G: Technology, Politics And Beyond
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This is a special roundup of all the news on the global stage from the last month. In October, Xi Jinping's visit to India, Pakistan's FATF deadline, Brexit, and Trump's impeachment dominated the headlines.
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Read More:
- Man Behind Institute Which Sponsored MEPs' Kashmir Visit Had Close Ties With North Korea
- Turkey’s invasion of Syria explained
- Islamic State after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Connectivity has become an important aspect of international relations. Ritika Passi joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss different connectivity projects and their geopolitics.
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Read More:
- Reconnecting Asia
- China Research by AIDDATA****
- China Global Investment Tracker
- World Bank Reports on The Belt and Road Initiative
- Macro Polo by the Paulson Institute
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In India, we ignore our coastlines when we think about foreign policy. Sunil Amrith joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the Bay of Bengal, its fascinating history and how the sea changed interactions across the region and the world.
For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
Read more:
- Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants by Sunil Amrith
- Unruly Waters by Sunil Amrith
- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
- Seas of Citizenship by Hamsini Hariharan
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Deep Pal joins Hamsini Hariharan on episode 32 of States of Anarchy to discuss India's foreign policy towards Bhutan and Sikkim. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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- Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
- Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom by Andrew Duff
- Sikkim: Dawn of Democracy by GBS Siddhu
- The Kingdom at the Centre of the World by Omair Ahmad
- Foreign Policy Of Bhutan by Rajesh S Kharat
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* Munish Sharma joins Hamsini Hariharan to break down concepts in cyber security and the challenges that India faces in the cyber domain. For questions or comments, reach out to the host **@HamsiniH** or on Instagram **@statesofanarchy**
Read More:
+ **India’s Strategic Options in a Changing Cyberspace** by Cherian Samuel and Munish Sharma
+ **Ep. 02: How to Hack an Election**
+ **India's Cyber Security Challenges**
+ **National Cyber Security Policy, 2013**You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app
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Sanjaya Baru joins Hamsini Hariharan on episode 30 to discuss the Bombay Plan and its relevance to how we look at questions surrounding the Indian economy today.
Read More:
- Essays by KN Raj
- Money Income Prices in 19th Century India by Brahmananda P. R.
- Development Experience in the Indian Economy: Inter-state Perspectives edited by PR Brahmanada and V.R. Panchamukhi
- Writings of Prabat Patnaik
- Towards Sustainable Growth: Essays in Fiscal and Financial Sector Reforms in India by Raja Chelliah,
- Income-Poverty And Beyond: Human Development in India edited by Raja Chelliah, and R. Sudarshan
- Merchants and Colonialism: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India by Amiya Bagchi,
- Colonialism and Indian Economy by Amiya Bagchi
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On the last Tuesday of every month, host Hamsini Hariharan rounds up important international news that you should know. In September, attacks on oil fields, Howdy Modi, the economy and Israeli elections dominated the headlines. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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Ambassador BS Prakash joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss how India has interacted with the United Nations over time. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
Read More:
- Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations by Stephen C. Schlesinger
- The Horseshoe Table by Chinmaya R. Gharekhan
- Legitimacy of Power: The Permanence of Five in the Security Council by Dilip Sinha
- The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World by Manu Bhagavan
- The United Nations Archives
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Former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, TCA Raghavan joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss civil-military relations in Pakistan. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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Devirupa Mitra, the Deputy Editor and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Wire joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss what's happening in South Asia. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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On the last Tuesday of every month, host Hamsini Hariharan rounds up important international news that you should know. In August, Kashmir, nuclear missiles. the Order of Zayed, a fire in the Amazon dominated the headlines. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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Manpreet Sethi joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about India's nuclear doctrine on its twentieth anniversary. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
Read More:
- Nuclear Strategy: India's March Towards Credible Deterrence -- Manpreet Sethi
- Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy -- Manpreet Sethi
- Global Nuclear Challenges: Energy, Proliferation and Disarmament -- Manpreet Sethi
- Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India's Quest to be a Nuclear Power -- Raj Chengappa
- The Strategy Trap: India and Pakistan Under the Nuclear Shadow -- Lt Gen Prakash Menon
- Nuclear India -- Jasjit Singh
- India's Nuclear Policy -- Bharat Karnad
- Nuclear Myths and Realities: India's Dilemma -- K. Subrahmanyam
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On the occasion of Independence Day, Chintan Modi joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about peace, peacebuilding and our relations with Pakistan. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
Read More:
- Mukund and Riaz by Nina Sabnani
- The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Bhutalia
- Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra
- Children's History of Sindh by Hamida Khuro
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Swarna Rajagopalan joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss how gender plays out in international politics. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy(https://www.instagram.com/statesofanarchy/).
Read more:
- Women, Security, South Asia: A Clearing in the Thicket by Swarna Rajagopalan
- Bananas, Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe
- What it looks like when men are photoshopped out of politics
- Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals by Carol Cohn
- How can She Claim Equal Rights When She Doesn’t Have to Do as Many
Pushups as I Do?’: The Framing of Men’s Opposition to Women’s Equality in the Military by Carol Cohn
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On the last Tuesday of every month, host Hamsini Hariharan rounds up important international news that you should know. In July, the case of Kulbhushan Jadav, relations between Iran and the US and, the protests in Hong Kong dominated the headlines. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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Aunohita Mojumdar of Himal Southasian joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the crackdown on press freedoms across South Asia. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
Read More:
- “Chronicle of a death not foretold” – Aunohita Mojumdar
- Check out Himal Southasian
- “A magazine’s unlikely rebirth in Sri Lanka” – Columbia Journalism Review
- “The Slow Strangulation of a South Asian Magazine” – The New Yorker
- “Nepali State Agencies Force Himal Magazine to Suspend Operations” – The Wire
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Studying international relations is a lifelong journey. Shibani Mehta joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about studying and researching international relations. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
Read More:
- Studying international relations in India -- Shivshankar Menon
- It’s Never Been a Better Time to Study IR -- Francis J Gavin
- Housefull Foreign Policy on Pragati
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Indian histories are vast and contentious. Manu Pillai joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss questions of power and legitimacy, communal relations and the intersection of the foreign and the domestic in Indian history. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH(https://twitter.com/HamsiniH) or on Instagram @statesofanarchy(https://www.instagram.com/statesofanarchy/).
Read More:
- The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
- Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
- Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
- The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
- Last King in India by Rosie Llewelleyn-Jones
- Surat vs the British Empire -- Episode Seven of States of Anarchy with Mir Moin
- The Sea Is My Nation -- Episode One of States of Anarchy with Sunil Amrith
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Manoj Kewalramani joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the US-China trade war, Huawei and India's policy responses. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
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Devika Kher and Hamsini Hariharan talk about the jobs crisis that is looming over the world. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
Read more:
- Waiting for Jobs - Radhicka Kapoor
- Troubling Unemployment Data, Leaked in January, Now Released Post-Elections
- Here are the four truths about white collar jobs
- Get the women into the workforce
- Precarious drop: reassessing patterns of female labor force participation in India – World Bank
- Why Indian Workplaces Are Losing Women – Namita Bhandare
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Satish Sivan, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Seoul talks to Hamsini Hariharan about ties between India and South Korea. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.
Read more:
- An Indian Princess in Korea
- The Indian princess who became a South Korean queen
- India and South Korea: The Promise of Partnership
- India – Republic of Korea Bilateral Relations
- India-South Korea Relations
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Urbanist Yang Seunghee joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about how city of Seoul has evolved and what lessons it bears for cities in developing countries. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH(https://twitter.com/HamsiniH) or on Instagram @statesofanarchy(https://www.instagram.com/statesofanarchy/).
Other Resources:
- Watch Reply 1988
- Watch City Hunter
- Watch Boys over Flowers
- Listen to music by BTS
- Read Urbanization Planning of Seoul
- Read The Soul of a Global City
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Eric Mobrand joins Hamsini Hariharan to look back at South Korea’s tumultuous political tryst with democracy. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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- Top Down Democracy in South Korea By Eric Mobrand
- Korea’s Place In The Sun by Bruce Cumings
- Watch The President’s Last Bang
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A Trump-Kim Love Affair
Scott Snyder joins host Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the recent nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula to make sense of the diplomatic outreach. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy Read More:
- Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis by Mike Chinoy
- The Peninsula Question: A Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis by Yoichi Funabashi
- The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov
- The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha
- South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers by Scott Snyder
- The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States by Scott Snyder
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Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein joins Hamsini Hariharan to bust myths about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
Read More:
- The Accusation - by Bandi
- The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer
- Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
- North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor
- Images from North Korean elections
- North Korea explained in graphics
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Lincoln Paine comes aboard to talk about the maritime history of the world and Asia. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy Read more:
- The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World -- Lincoln Paine
- The Geopolitical Vision of Alfred Thayer Mahan
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 – Alfred Thayer Mahan
- The Grotian Doctrine of the Freedom of the Seas Reappraised -- Alison Reppy
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John Schaus joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss US priorities in the Indo-Pacific. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
Read More:
1. America's Pacific Century by Hillary Clinton.
2. Making Good on the Rebalance to Asia by Graham Webster
3. The Legacy of Obama’s “Pivot” to Asia by Michael J Green
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Jacob Poushter joins host Hamsini Hariharan to discuss international public opinion and how people around the world think about the United States, China and world politics. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
Read More:
- America Versus the World: How We are Different and Why We are Disliked by Andy Kohut and Bruce Stokes
- Global Attitudes & Trends at Pew Research Centre
- World Poll by Gallup
- Eurobarometer
- Afrobarometer
- Latinobarometro
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Mir Moin joins Hamsini Hariharan to tell the story of how a prince from Surat raised a private's member's bill in the British Parliament in 1856 and changed the course of Indian history. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
Read More:
- Surat: Fall of a Port, Rise of a Prince by Mir Moin
- Surat, Port of the Mughal Empire by Ruby Maloni
- Last King in India by Rosie Llewelleyn-Jones
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Felix Boecking joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss tariffs in Chinese history and how it’s employed in today’s context of trade wars. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy
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Michael Kugelman joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about Pakistan's external debt.
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Articles by Khurram Hussain
China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics by Andrew Small
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Kathikeya Singh joins host Hamsini Hariharan to discuss challenges to India's power sector and how far the country has come to bridge that gap.
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- Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Reports by the Ministry of Power, Government of India
- Minutes of the meeting from Conference of Power & Energy Ministers, 2018
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With election season coming around, here's a look back at the first Indian elections. Ornit Shani joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss how the government prepared for the first Indian elections between 1951 and 1952.
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- How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
- Reports by the Election Commission
- Every Vote Counts: The Story of Indian Elections by Navin Chawla
- An Undocumnted Wonder: The Making of the Great Indian Election by Sy Quraishi
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Did the Russians really hack the US elections? David Salvo and Bret Schafer from the Alliance for Securing Democracy (of the German Marshall Fund of the United States) talk to Hamsini Hariharan about the allegations of election hacking in the US, and what it could mean for countries like India.
Read more:
- Policy Blue Print For Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies
- Testimony of Philip Howard to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts
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In India, we ignore our coastlines when we think about foreign policy. Sunil Amrith joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the Bay of Bengal, its fascinating history and how the sea changed interactions across the region and the world.
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Read more:
- Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants by Sunil Amrith
- Unruly Waters by Sunil Amrith
- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
- Seas of Citizenship by Hamsini Hariharan
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The world is anarchical - If you’re powerful enough, then rules don’t matter. But what are the rules? And who follows them? Global affairs is fascinating and complex – States of Anarchy will help you make sense of it. Foreign policy enthusiast, Hamsini Hariharan tackles issues in the the fields of international relations, global affairs and foreign policy to give you the context you need to make sense of the 21 st century.
Show starts from Tuesday, March 12th, 2019.
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