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It should abandon its strategic overreach vis-à-vis Russia and turn its attention to its real rival, China COMMENT | BRAHMA CHELLANEY | Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the West has desperately sought ways to punish Russia without harming itself in the process. It …

The outcome of major geopolitical reconfiguration underway will depend on developments over the year COMMENT | BRAHMA CHELLANEY | Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, America’s extraterritorial assassinations, and China’s aggressive expansionism all point to one conclusion: the global system that emerged after World War II is …

Beyond Gaza and Ukraine a fundamental global geopolitical rebalancing now appears all but inevitable COMMENT | BRAHMA CHELLANEY | The crises, conflicts, and wars that are currently raging highlight just how profoundly the geopolitical landscape has changed in recent years, as great-power rivalries have again become central to international relations. With …

They are a shot to the foot as there shouldn’t have been an abrupt transition from Russian energy supplies COMMENT | Brahma Chellaney | It seems obvious that sanctions – an increasingly important tool of Western foreign policy – should inflict significant pain on the target without exacting unsustainably high costs from …

While hydro dams emits no greenhouse gases, reservoirs can be worse than fossil-fuel power plants COMMENT | BRAHMA CHELLANEY | The era of cheap oil and gas is over. Russia’s war in Ukraine – or, more specifically, Europe’s ambitious effort to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels at a time …

By Brahma Chellaney The country has over 85,000 dams generating more than 170 gigawatts of hydropower China’s frenzied dam-building hit a wall recently in Burma (Myanmar), where the government’s bold decision to halt a controversial Chinese-led dam project helped to ease the path to the first visit by a US …