Ved Nanda

Ved Nanda: U.S. needs to step up to help end Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

October 23, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

This news is not about the elections, which have overtaken all else. And yet the ongoing deadly war between Armenia and Azerbaijan must receive top priority by the Trump administration....

Nanda: Talk of peace is slow in Afghanistan, but the U.S. must not abandon them now

September 29, 2020 at 5:07 p.m.

Afghanistan continues to suffer from deadly violence while the historic Taliban-Afghan peace talks are underway thousands of miles away in Doha, Qatar. These U.S.-brokered talks follow the U.S.-Taliban agreement signed...

Nanda: Time is running out to end the threat of nuclear war

August 17, 2020 at 12:48 p.m.

When my wife, Katharine, and I went to Hiroshima in October 2016, I had personally sensed a growing urgency among the survivors to tell their stories so that younger generations...

Nanda: U.S. plans to resist China’s aggression in South China Sea unclear

July 24, 2020 at 11:31 a.m.

Neither country wants war, but in light of naval exercises by both China and the U.S., the potential for miscalculation cannot be ruled out.

Ved Nanda: India may need to pull closer to U.S. as it navigates tensions with China

June 26, 2020 at 11:57 a.m.

India getting closer to the West should not necessarily be seen as designed to contain China. India should substantially increase its defense spending and use its diplomatic and economic skills...

RN Stephanie Campbell, right, holds a ...

Nanda: Developing countries face enormous hurdles in battling COVID-19

May 29, 2020 at 1:55 p.m.

The coronavirus-19 demonstrates that developing countries must not be ignored 鈥� they need assistance to combat this crisis.

Nanda: World needs a more inclusive, just society. But will that be result of coronavirus pandemic?

April 24, 2020 at 10:29 a.m.

The major deficiencies in our current system of overreliance on markets and profits is leading the states to expand their authorities and become stronger, taking control over healthcare and labor...

Turkish anti-riot police officers push back women during a rally marking International Women's Day on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on March 8, 2020. Istanbul police fired tear gas at thousands of women who took to the city's central avenue on International Women's Day on March 8 in defiance of a protest ban to demand greater rights and denounce violence.

Nanda: Twenty-five years after declaring “women’s rights are human rights,” there’s still much to do

March 30, 2020 at 12:13 p.m.

Despite the great strides in the fight for gender equality, including gains in girls鈥� education, legal reforms to address domestic violence, removing discriminatory laws, and impressive gains for individual women...

Pedestrians wear face masks in Bangkok, ...

Nanda: Can we avoid a novel coronavirus pandemic?

February 22, 2020 at 8:00 a.m.

Will the novel coronavirus, a new strain of coronavirus, which started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, become a global pandemic, a disease that spreads worldwide? Roughly 20 times deadlier...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 17, 2019 Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (C) smiles before a High Level Consultation Meeting with African leaders on DR Congo election at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa. - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve his country's conflict with bitter foe Eritrea, the Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on October 11, 2019. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nanda: Africa is rising, but can the continent’s countries capitalize?

January 27, 2020 at 6:29 p.m.

In this era of shifting trends in international trade and investment, Africa is now receiving the attention it richly deserves but rarely gets, for it is often an afterthought in...

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