Facebook Is Now “Meta”: But, What Does It Mean?
Adarsh Badri
by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
Facebook has rebranded itself with a new identity – Meta. Drawing its name from metaverse, a speculative future internet iteration based on shared 3-Dimensional virtual spaces, Meta is a social technology company. Meta’s renewed focus, as was iterated by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is to bring “metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.” The metaverse will resemble a mix of today’s online social interactions, allowing you to share immersive experiences with others even though you’re not physically present – and accomplish things together virtually. Although ..read more
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Realism in International Relations
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by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
The theory of realism has had a significant influence on the study of international politics, as it appears in practice. Realism is shaped by power politics. Realist theory premises on the state as the primary actor of international relations. States operate to achieve two interrelated goals: power and security. Power increases and guarantees security, while security enables states to acquire and consolidate more power. The realist theory of IR was shaped by thinkers who were greatly influenced by the politics of the Second World War. The realist scholarship was highly critical of the inter-wa ..read more
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Liberalism in International Relations
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by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
Liberalism is one of the oldest schools of IR theory. Liberal international relations theory is embedded in the social context, which decisively constrains the purpose and possibilities of government. It assumes that states are embedded in domestic and international civil society which places structural constraints on the state behaviour by shaping the underlying preferences on which its foreign policy is based. Liberalism rejects the realist notion of power politics as the only outcome of international politics. For they believe that even the concept of “power politics” itself is a product of ..read more
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Pegasus and The Rise of Illiberal Democracies
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by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
Can Democracies Survive the State of Surveillance? The Pegasus Project — a collaborative investigation into the NSO Group’s surveillance software coordinated by the Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International — has revealed that over 50,000 phone numbers were under illegal surveillance by various governments around the world. The report has detailed that at least 180 journalists, human rights defenders, academics, businesspersons, lawyers, doctors, union leaders, diplomats, politicians and several heads of state, have been targeted for surveillance by governments using the spyware k ..read more
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Identity Politics and Its Discontents
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by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
In the summer of 1989, the American journal The National Interest, published an essay titled “The End of History?” Its author, Francis Fukuyama, declared the triumph for liberal democracy as the final form of government for all nations. Fukuyama wrote, “What we may be witnessing is not just the end of Cold War or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” The thesis, as presented by Fukuyama, drew sce ..read more
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Brief History
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by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
Fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militants have intensified in the last few days, with Hamas launching hundreds of rockets from Gaza and Israel responding with airstrikes. Rioting and mob violence between Arabs and Jews ripped through the unsettled borders of Israel and Palestine. As the conflict escalates, over 100 civilians have been killed and thousands more have been injured on both sides. Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket attacks raged through the week with no sign of abatement, further causing a new storm in the Israel-Palestine conflict. How Did the Conflict Begin to Escala ..read more
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Learning to Live With The Virus
Adarsh Badri
by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
The coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened as many as 145 million people around the world. It is raging in several countries like never before. The second wave of COVID-19 has seriously exposed the health infrastructure in India. Even as I write, thousands of dead bodies are waiting for their turns in temporary cremation grounds. Thousands more are dying on the streets waiting to be admitted into the hospitals. Several thousand is begging, borrowing & stealing oxygen cylinders to keep their loved ones alive. It is a manufactured crisis. The election rallies in Bengal, a ..read more
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NFT: what is it? how does it work?
Adarsh Badri
by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
What is all this craze behind NFT? The craziest crypto innovation sweeping the digital currency can be summed in three letters: NFT. In the early march of 2021, Mike Winkelmann – the digital artist known as Beeple – sold an NFT for a whopping $69 million. Yes, you heard it right. Until the last October, the most Beeple had ever sold a print for was $100. The NFT sale of “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” at Christie’s made him one of the most valuable living artists. The same month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet was sold at auction for $2.9 million. Grimes sold, god knows what, for $6 m ..read more
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 Myanmar Coup: what is happening and why?
Adarsh Badri
by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
In one of the bloodiest days of protests since the coup d’état that began in early February, Myanmar security forces gunned down more than 114 protesters and civilians (including children & bystanders) on March 27, 2021. Earlier that day, Chit Bo Bo Nyein, a young man with an immense passion for football, had abandoned the game and joined the protests against the military regime. He was the first to take bullets on the junta’s “day of shame.” On the same day, a military parade was shamelessly organized in Naypyidaw to honour the army.  According to the rights grou ..read more
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What is Blockchain Technology?
Adarsh Badri
by Adarsh Badri
2y ago
How This Technology Will Transform Our Society If you have followed the recent surge in the price of bitcoin, even starkly, you may have come across the term “blockchain”- the record-keeping technology of cryptocurrencies. Since 2009, technologies characterized as blockchain technologies have received growing interest in the general public discourse. Blockchain, as open-source technology, offers an alternative to the traditional form of intermediary-based financial transactions. The intermediary is replaced by the collective decentralized verification ecosystem, offering a great degree of trac ..read more
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