Welcome
Prof D Suba Chandran
Dean, School of Conflict and Security Studies, National Institute of Advanced Studies
Inaugural Address
Prof Shailesh Nayak
Director, NIAS
Theme-I: Internal political developments
Myanmar: The Coup and after
Aparupa Bhattacherjee, PhD Scholar, NIAS
Sri Lanka: Political and economic crises
Chrishari De Alwis Gunasekare, Project Coordinator, Sri Lanka Press Institute
China: 20th Party Congress
Avishka Ashok, Research Associate, NIAS
China: The COVID protests
Vinolia Rose, Postgraduate Scholar, Loyola College
Iran: Anti-government protests
Kaviyadarshini Vairam, Postgraduate Scholar, Loyola College Chennai
Iraq: Deadlock and breakthrough
Rashmi Ramesh, PhD Scholar, NIAS
Tunisia: Back to square one
Apoorva Sudhakar, Research Associate, NIAS
Ethiopia: Uncertainties despite ceasefire
Anu Maria Joseph, Research Assistant, NIAS
The US: Overturning Roe vs Wade
Deyasree Dey, Postgraduate Scholar, Pondicherry University
Theme II: Bilateral/regional
The Taiwan Strait: Political and military assertions
Avishka Ashok, Research Associate, NIAS
China and the Middle East: Xi Jinping's visit
Sapna Elsa Abraham, Research Officer, C3S, Chennai
North Korea: Continuing missile tests
Janardhan G, Postgraduate Scholar, MAHE
Elections in France, Sweden and Italy: Rise of the Right
Padmashree Anandhan, Research Associate, NIAS, &
Sourina Bej, PhD Scholar, University of Bonn, Germany
Elections in Colombia, Chile and Brazil: Rise of the Left
Madhura Mahesh, Research Intern, NIAS
NATO and the Madrid Summit: Expanding defence frontiers
Padmashree Anandhan, Research Associate, NIAS
Yemen, Syria and Sudan: Continuing humanitarian crises
Mohaimeen Khan, Postgraduate Scholar, MAHE
France’s exit from Mali: More questions than answers
Poulomi Mondal, Postgraduate Scholar, Pondicherry University
Theme- III: Global Developments
The War in Ukraine
Padmashree Anandhan, Research Associate, NIAS
COP 27
Akriti Sharma, PhD Scholar, NIAS
G20 Summit
Avishka Ashok, Research Associate, NIAS
The JCPOA deadlock
Bhoomika Sesharaj, Research Intern, NIAS
The Space race
Harini Madhusudan, PhD scholar, NIAS
The FTX Collapse
Madhura Mahesh, Research Intern, NIAS
Elon Musk and the Twitter chaos
Bhoomika Sesharaj, Research Intern, NIAS
The Global Economic slowdown
Ankit Singh, PhD Scholar, NIAS
Theme-IV: Obituaries and Newsmakers
Obituaries
Shinzo Abe, Jiang Zemin, Queen Elizabeth, Mikhail Gorbachev
Sethuraman Nadarajan, Research Assistant, NIAS
Newsmakers
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Pedro Castillo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Receppei Erdogan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Muqtada al-Sadr, S Jaishankar, Imran Khan, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mahsa Amini, Shireen Abu Akleh, Anwar Ibrahim, Lionel Messi, Elon Musk, Moroccan Football Team, Taliban
Allen Joe Mathew, Undergraduate Scholar, St Joseph’s University & Research Intern, NIAS,
Sayani Rana, Undergraduate Scholar, St Joseph’s University & Research Intern, NIAS, &
Joel Jacob, Research Assistant, NIAS