Research suggests that heavy rainfall events are on the rise. “The time has come to take serious cognisance of the link between climate change and extreme weather events like Chennai floods,” notes an essay from the Hans India. “As recommended by Centre for Science and Environment, India should...
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Harvard University’s Joseph Nye identified a centuries-old concept, “soft power,” in the late 1980s: the ability of countries to attract admiration and followers through culture and values rather than coercion, military or “hard power.” Countries want to be liked, increasingly investing in soft...
Hard drive for soft power: Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off International Yoga Day, leading thousands in New Delhi’s Raj Path, top; Buddhism is another soft-power tool for India as Modi greets Buddhist monk during visit to Mongolia
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In his chapter on the "Tyranny of the Majority," Alexis de Tocqueville posed the question, "If it be admitted that a man possessing absolute power may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should not a majority be liable to the same reproach?” Respect for minority rights...
President Barack Obama made his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, in an effort to allay the fears of Americans accustomed to pop-culture portrayals of Muslims as terrorists, and to reassure Muslim American youth about their place in the...
The US Congress has inserted a provision in an appropriations act that requires greater “protection for the environment or for human rights than the bank’s current safeguards,” reports Environment News Service. The United States is the largest contributor for World Bank operations, and the measure...
Environmental and social justice groups in the United States and around the world are applauding a provision of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Act, passed by the U.S. Congress just before the Christmas recess. The measure requires the U.S. Treasury...
