Publications
- Blog 16 April 2025
Unilateral Tariffs and the Risk of Intellectual Property Cross-Retaliation (Mint (Newspaper))
In what has passed into diplomatic lore, when Henry Kissinger asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1972 for his thoughts on the French Revolution (1789), he replied that it was “too early to say.” The mis-translated reference was to the French student riots in 1968, but before it could be corrected, the response became a metaphor for far-sighted leaders thinking in centuries rather than years. In considering the current frenzy over unilateral…
- Blog 14 April 2025
Bangladesh’s Regime Change – The India-Bangladesh BIT (2009) and the Joint Interpretative Notes (2017) (The American Review of International Arbitration (Blog))
In August 2024, a violent uprising in Bangladesh (dubbed the ‘Monsoon Revolution’) led to a political regime change, ending the fifteen-year term of Bangladesh’s previous Prime Minister. Taking stock of Bangladesh’s economy on priority, the new interim government (supported by the military and with constitutional approval by the Bangladeshi Supreme Court) recently issued a 400-page White Paper on the State of the Bangladesh…