Ninan Koshy

Ninan Koshy
NINAN KOSHY served as Director, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches (WCC), Geneva, from 1981 to 1991 and earlier as its Executive Secretary for seven years. He was Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Programmes, Harvard Law School during 1991-92. He writes regularly on National and International politics, human rights, disarmament, education and religion, and lives in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Does the UPA government's foreign policy represent any shift away from the pro-U.S. foreign policy of the previous NDA government? Indeed, was the NDA government's foreign policy itself a continuat...
Ninan Koshy, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Prabir Purkayastha
The India-US nuclear deal polarized the country in an unprecedented manner. Proponents hail the deal as the outstanding achievement of the UPA government. Opponents argue that if operationalized, i...
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, were used by the Bush administration to usher in a war without borders, a war against many enemies in many different parts of the world, a war without e...

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Tom Brass
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