Richard Javad HeydarianProfessorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
“Meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war,” the British Premiere Winston Churchill once memorably said. Since its very inception almost five decades ago, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has embraced this Churchillian dictum with gusto. The upshot is the emergence of the most successful regional integration experiment in the post-colonial world, which has often drawn direct comparisons with the European Union.
Born in the crucible of the Cold War, the regional organization has become the preeminent platform for institutionalized dialogue and constructive multilateralism in Asia. Among its extremely diverse members, even the threat of use of force has become virtually unthinkable, while intra-regional commerce and people-to-people interaction is increasingly seamless.
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May 21, 2021 15:43 IST
A former National Security Adviser and top diplomat traces the changes in India’s foreign policy, maps its present-day challenges, and suggests prescriptions for the future
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A former National Security Adviser and top diplomat traces the changes in India’s foreign policy, maps its present-day challenges, and suggests prescriptions for the future
Independent India’s foreign policy, according to Shivshankar Menon, has gone through three geopolitical phases and their transitions. From 1947 to the 1960s, a bipolar Cold War world; from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, rapid changes in its neighbourhood such as China falling out with the Soviets and moving to the U.S. side; and the post-Cold War world when the U.S. emerged as the sole superpower in a unipolar world order. Menon, who was the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary, is exploring these phases in their historical context to tell the story o
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Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering representatives, left, meet with Asian Institute of Technology officials in January 2020 in Bangkok to kick off discussions on a dual degree master’s program. Courtesy of AIT
Beginning in Fall 2022, Colorado State University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department will welcome graduate students from the Asian Institute of Technology, who will study with CSU faculty known for their expertise in water resources. The department has developed a dual degree master’s program with the international postgraduate school in Bangkok, Thailand, to train grad students in hydrology, hydraulics, water quality and resources, and environmental management.
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The last straw came shortly after, when he and a friend thought they were close to getting jobs at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Alabama. Both were told, in fact, that they would be hired, except for one thing both were classified 1A by the Selective Service System, meaning they were available for military service.
Should they be drafted, Pulliam and his buddy were told, their jobs would have to be held open for three years, a gamble the plant wasn t willing to take. It was 1960, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam, under terms of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization agreement signed six years earlier, was ramping up.
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