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India’s Naxals: Endurance and Ideology

Trucks carrying iron ore in the Indian state of Jharkhand, a hub of the Naxal insurgency. Credit: Flickr/Akshay Mahajan. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

Could political psychology explain why an anachronistic movement lives on?

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Shortwave Wars

Voice of America headquarters in Washington, DC, January 11, 2021. US State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain

How to win friends and influence people through airwaves

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When the Internet Displaces the Town Square

Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, form a shield wall at the National Gendarmerie Training Center in St. Astier, France, June 19, 2015. The Marines trained to operate through dense smoke and riot-control gas while maintaining tightly organized formations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Lt. Danielle Dixon/Released)

Urbanisation, tech, and culture amid revolution

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Securing India’s Cities

Managing traffic in front of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Credit: Flickr/US Department of State.

Defeating extant and new urban threats is a geopolitical imperative