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Irfan Nooruddin

Washington, D.C.
As seen in: The Washington Post, Washington Post Opinions, The Indian Express, Brookings Institution, The Hindu, Foreign Affairs, Hartford Courant, Scroll.in, Atlantic Council, Ink Stick Media
Covers:  India, Democracy, Economic Development, Globalization, Trade
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The Truth About “India’s Moment”

The Truth About “India’s Moment”

Project Syndicate — As China quickly reshapes the global order, Western governments have convinced themselves that, with enough flattery, today's India can become a reliable partner. But given the country's misgovernance, poor economic prospects, and democratic backsliding, they should rethink that assumption.
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India is now the world's most populous country. Can its economy keep up?

India is now the world's most populous country. Can its economy keep up?

Atlantic Council — A failure to harness the energies of the world's largest population will not just be a tremendous missed opportunity. It will also be a millstone weighing down India's future.
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The stakes for trade with India

The stakes for trade with India

The Hill — In his Aug. 15, 2022, speech - 75 years to the day after India declared its independence from the British Empire - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could hardly have been clearer: India intends to be a top global power well before the end of this century and already is emerging as a role model for other countries, big and small, around the world.
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From a vicious cycle to a virtuous cycle

From a vicious cycle to a virtuous cycle

The Hindu — December 05, 2022 12:15 am | Updated 01:17 am IST The economic impact of the pandemic spared few, but there is now evidence that those in the informal sector faced especially devastating consequences. A key reason was the challenge of raising capital.
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Analysis | Americans are growing more accepting of Christian nationalism

Analysis | Americans are growing more accepting of Christian nationalism

The Washington Post — In an interview with the conservative Next News Network in June, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, "I'm a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists."
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Foreign Direct Investment flows to countries where the most prominent political parties are natio...

Foreign Direct Investment flows to countries where the most prominent political parties are natio...

democraticaudit.com — What is the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and political party organisation? Joel W. Simmons, Allen Hicken, Ken Kollman and Irfan Nooruddin share evidence which shows that countries with a higher number of regionalised political parties will have more difficulty attracting FDI than those countries with national political parties in positions of greater prominence.
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Russia's Unsurprising Allies

Russia's Unsurprising Allies

Ink Stick Media — America's latest effort to construct a coalition of the willing has been more successful than the last, yet it is destined to fall well short of its universalist ambitions. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that 75% of the world's population live in countries that did not vote in favor of the various UN resolutions condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The Global South on Ukraine

The Global South on Ukraine

Ink Stick Media — " Adults in a Room " is a series in collaboration with The Atlantic Council's New American Engagement Initiative Aude Darnal , Associate Director, New American Engagement Initiative (NAEI). The series stems from NAEI's monthly networking events that call on analysts to gather virtually and hash out a salient topic.
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684 Irfan Nooruddin, Building better surveys

684 Irfan Nooruddin, Building better surveys

india-seminar.com — Building better surveys IRFAN NOORUDDIN 1 Politics in India. 2 If pollsters in the United States complain of the technological disruption to their craft caused by the spread of mobile telephony, 3 Admiration for what Lokniti-CSDS have achieved notwithstanding, my task here is to identify the limitations that hold back this remarkable institution from growing its impact and influence in an increasingly crowded, competitive, and chaotic polling milieu.
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The Hidden Threat to Globalization

The Hidden Threat to Globalization

Foreign Affairs — new study, differences between support for globalization among high-skilled and low-skilled workers-and gaps in the optimism the two groups feel about their prospects for upward mobility-have grown in poor countries as well as rich ones. As a result, overall backing for economic integration is eroding.
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Trade and climate, the pivot for India-U.S. ties

Trade and climate, the pivot for India-U.S. ties

The Hindu — When the history of the 21st century is written, India and the United States and the strategic alliance they forge should play starring roles. Granted, it is far too early to predict how successful their joint efforts will be in creating a free and open Indo-Pacific - one that advances democratic values and confronts autocracies globally and locally.
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Opinion | Nationalists in Christianity's clothing

Opinion | Nationalists in Christianity's clothing

Washington Post Opinions — The July 10 Metro article " Religion and the Capitol riot," an account of people justifying the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill through a Christian worldview, helped explain why Americans are abandoning Christianity in droves. According to the Pew Research Center, the share of U.S.
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Pulling India's democracy back from the brink

Pulling India's democracy back from the brink

The Hindu — Governments, like the citizens that live under their influence, come in a dizzying array of types, challenging simplistic efforts of classification. In spite of all this variation, what remains constant is this: throughout history, governments wield considerably more power over the governed than the other way around. Actually that is a gross understatement.
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South Asia: The road ahead in 2021

South Asia: The road ahead in 2021

Atlantic Council — By Irfan Nooruddin At long last, the year that seemed like it might never end is in the history books.
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COVID-19 and limits of political accountability

COVID-19 and limits of political accountability

The Hindu — The year no one saw coming - 2020 - and that few will mourn as it passes into the history books, has upended a great many truisms of political life. Writing in this daily, (Troughs and crests in the pandemic response , April 25, 2020), I described the COVID-19 pandemic as a governance stress test that would expose how poorly prepared the world's governments were.
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The science of coronavirus art: Assessing India's Covid-19 behavioral change campaigns

The science of coronavirus art: Assessing India's Covid-19 behavioral change campaigns

Scroll.in — The novel coronavirus pandemic has gripped much of the world due to the strain it places on healthcare systems. Similarly, combatting the pandemic has placed a strain on regular human behavior. Successful pandemic response requires a massive societal-level behavior change to buy societies the time required for scientists to develop and test better treatments, vaccines, and technical tools to "flatten the curve" of new infections.
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South Asia midyear pause: Taking stock of 2020

South Asia midyear pause: Taking stock of 2020

Atlantic Council — The specific events of the year's first six months might have taken us by surprise but the political-economic dynamics that have shaped South Asia's response to these new challenges did not. Across the region democracy and freedom of expression are challenged, and protectionist impulses are indulged in flailing response to calamitous economic strife.
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One of the causes of the coronavirus bias: Flawed labor law

One of the causes of the coronavirus bias: Flawed labor law

Hartford Courant — The coronavirus, like the societies it has brought to a standstill for the past four months, is biased. It discriminates based on one's ability to self-isolate, to maintain appropriate social distance, and to afford food, health care and housing while doing so.
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Troughs and crests in the pandemic response

Troughs and crests in the pandemic response

The Hindu — The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the disease COVID-19, has proven the ultimate stress test for governance systems globally. And governments worldwide are failing, showing up for all to see how poorly prepared they were for this examination.
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Defusing Bangladesh's COVID-19 time bomb

Defusing Bangladesh's COVID-19 time bomb

Atlantic Council — Bangladesh has a health crisis in the making. The lack of preparation in the United States and Europe that has spawned the ongoing crisis there still exceeds the preparedness of developing countries such as Bangladesh, which will have to battle the COVID-19 pandemic with limited financial resources and a legacy of poor healthcare infrastructure, especially for the urban poor.
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Analysis | Yes, Bolivia's 2019 election was problematic. Here's why.

Analysis | Yes, Bolivia's 2019 election was problematic. Here's why.

The Washington Post — On Oct. 20, 2019, Bolivia held a presidential election. To win on the first round, the winner had to secure an outright electoral majority or at least 40 percent of the vote and a 10 percent margin over the second-place candidate.
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Analysis | The U.S.-India trade deal fell through. What happens now?

Analysis | The U.S.-India trade deal fell through. What happens now?

The Washington Post — Last week, President Trump's whirlwind 36 hours in India included a huge cricket stadium rally in Ahmedabad that recalled Houston's " Howdy Modi" joint appearance last September with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The trip generated photo ops in Sabarmati Ashram, where Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi once lived and worked; in Agra at the Taj Mahal; and at a state dinner in Trump's honor.
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South Asia: The road ahead in 2020

South Asia: The road ahead in 2020

Atlantic Council — South Asia's economies are powered by an energetic young population eager to embrace 21st century economic opportunities and conscious of their growing centrality to global geopolitical calculations. Whether the governments of South Asia's countries are capable of delivering on this promise is another question.
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Populism, against the people

Populism, against the people

The Hindu — The story of democracy in the last century was claiming the right to rule for majorities from unrepresentative elites.
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