India and the United States need each other to combat terror in south Asia
Shambhavi Jaiswal , RESEARCH CO-ORDINATOR ,GCTC INTRODUCTION If we think of a major event in the past 20 years that changed the world, there’s a particular moment that stands as a catalyst to so much that has defined our era and impacted millions of people. The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, changed much about the world as we know it and ushered in a new era of conflict and fear. from mass government surveillance, new immigration programs along- side growing anti-immigrant sentiments and Islamophobia to the wars in Af- ghanistan and Iraq, conflict between Pakistan and India, the rise of Daesh. War on terror starts with Al Qeada yet…
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Counter Intelligence in the Age of Information warfare
Manmeet Singh Arora , RESEARCH CO-ORDINATOR ,GCTC Operational Meaning of Counterintelligence (CI) is the information gathered and actions taken to identify and protect against an adversary’s knowledge collection activities or attempts to cause harm through sabotage or other actions. The goal of CI is to ensure information cannot be modified or destroyed by a malicious actor and that only authorized people can access an organization’s information. Its activities can be categorized as being either collective, defensive or offensive. Collective CI efforts focus on learning who the adversary is, how they collect information, what attack vectors they are targeting and what tools they are using. Defensive CI efforts focus on securing…
India- Afghanistan Trade Relations and it’s Potential
– BY Kanupriya India and Afghanistan have shared economic ties for thousands of years and the understanding of trade between the two countries is crucial to get an insight into what is a historical Central and South Asian connection. The biggest example of this historical connection which is embedded in the cultural psyche of both the countries is Rabindranath Tagore’s work called Kabuliwala. The Afghan president Ashraf Ghani said in 2015 that “Rabindranath Tagore’s famous short story Kabuliwala has contributed more to brand Afghanistan which it could not do with billions of dollars.” India has been an inseparable part of the larger picture of the trade originating from and passing…
POST COVID-19 WORLD ORDER
– BY APOORVA IYER The COVID-19 has been able to establish itself as the biggest pandemic ever experienced by humanity since the 1918 Spanish flu. So far, the impact of the pandemic has affected all segments of an individual. Consequentially, the post-pandemic era will surely witness the change in the world order. The world order for long had been evolving with each passing event at the international level. The rise of the right-wing governments and forces against globalisation were some of the critical sentiments that were a departure from the existing international norms. The growing rivalry between USA-China further escalated it. The rivalry hurt several countries that looked up…
UNDERSTANDING CYBER TERRORISM
GCTC Research Co-ordinator Adv. Karampreet Kaur Malhotra The traditional concepts and methods of terrorism have taken new dimensions, which are more destructive and deadly in nature. In the age of information technology the terrorists have acquired an expertise to produce the most deadly combination of weapons and technology, which if not properly safeguarded in due course of time, will take its own toll. The damage so produced would be almost irreversible and most catastrophic in nature. In short, we are facing the worst form of terrorism popularly known as “Cyber Terrorism” Public interest in cyber terrorism began in the late 1990s, when the term was coined by Barry C. Collin,…
Will the coronavirus prove fatal for the European Union too?
The pandemic Covid’19 within a few months became something so dramatic and deadly that the current generation was just unable to fathom . With no treatments and vaccines in place (yet), countries have to opt for drastic preventive measures which is having a monumental impact on economy and society. As the IMF recently declared, that the world economy has entered a depression as worse as The Great Depression of 1930s, predicting the loss of jobs for millions around the world. The political impact of the pandemic is proving to be equally severe and extreme. The multi-regional organizations are set to be the most affected, with the European Union facing the…
Economics of Terrorism
As an economist, I am hardwired to believe that people respond to incentives. What possible incentive could there be to convince someone to end their life for a cause? In this piece, I hope to peer into the economics of terrorism. As is with all activities in the globalised world terrorism also requires resources. There are multiple options and sources and in the interest of remaining politically neutral, I do not wish to name any. Conventional wisdom and ‘experts’ in the media help us think that terrorists come from low-income households, have poor education and no understanding of what they are doing. However, a pioneer in the field, Alan Krueger…
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