Delusional Politics

by Hardeep Singh Puri

  17. Jennifer Williams, ‘Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s North Korea Summit Press Conference’, Vox, 12 June 2018, https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/12/17452624/trump-kim-summit-transcript-press-conference-full-text.

  18. ‘President Trump Sits Down with George Stephanopoulos: Transcript’, ABC News, 12 June 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-sits-george-stephanopoulos-transcript/story?id=55831055.

  19. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, ‘Trump-Kim Meet: The Carrots US Offers North Will Define the Deal’s Success’, Business Standard, 12 June 2018, https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/trump-kim-meet-the-carrots-us-offers-north-will-define-the-deal-s-success-118061200656_1.html.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

  22. ‘Trump and Kim’s Joint Statement’, Reuters, 12 June 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-agreement-text/trump-and-kims-joint-statement-idUSKBN1J80IU.

  23. ‘Kyoto Protocol—Targets for the First Commitment Period’, UNFCCC, https://unfccc.int/process/the-kyoto-protocol.

  24. ‘Parties & Observes’, UNFCCC, https://unfccc.int/parties-observers.

  25. John H. Cushman Jr., ‘U.S. Signs a Pact to Reduce Gases Tied to Warming’, New York Times, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/13/world/us-signs-a-pact-to-reduce-gases-tied-to-warming.html.

  26. Christie Aschwanden, ‘A Lesson from Kyoto’s Failure: Don’t Let Congress Touch A Climate Deal’, FiveThirtyEight, 4 December 2015, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-lesson-from-kyotos-failure-dont-let-congress-touch-a-climate-deal/.

  27. John Vidal, Allegra Stratton and Suzanne Goldenberg, ‘Low Targets, Goals Dropped: Copenhagen Ends in Failure’, Guardian, 19 December 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/18/copenhagen-deal.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Ibid.

  30. ‘197 Nations Unite to Phase Out Potent Greenhouse Gases’, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, 6 November 2015, http://www.eesi.org/press-releases/view/197-nations-unite-to-phase-out-potent-greenhouse-gases.

  31. ‘The Paris Agreement’, UNFCCC, https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement.

  32. Camila Domonoske, ‘2 Degrees, $100 Billion: The World Climate Agreement, By The Numbers’, NPR, 12 December 2015, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/12/459502597/2-degrees-100-billion-the-world-climate-agreement-by-the-numbers.

  33. ‘What Is the Paris Agreement?’, UNFCCC, https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/what-is-the-paris-agreement.

  34. Kevin Liptak and Jim Acosta, ‘Trump on Paris Accord: ‘We’re Getting Out’, CNN Politics, 2 June 2017, http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/politics/trump-paris-climate-decision/index.html.

  35. Valerie Volcovici, ‘Exclusive: Trump’s Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States—Data’, Reuters, 19 January 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-jobs/exclusive-trumps-coal-job-push-stumbles-in-most-states-data-idUSKBN1F81AK.

  36. Justin Gillis and Nadja Popovich, ‘The U.S. Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History. It Just Walked Away From the Paris Climate Deal,’ New York Times, 1 June 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-biggest-carbon-polluter-in-history-will-it-walk-away-from-the-paris-climate-deal.html?mtrref=www.google.co.in.

  37. Rob Smith, ‘The World’s Biggest Economies in 2018’, World Economic Forum, 18 April 2018, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/the-worlds-biggest-economies-in-2018/.

  38. Jan Burck, Franziska Marten, Christoph Bals, Niklas Höhne, ‘Results 2018’, Climate Change Performance Index, 15 November 2017, https://www.climate-change-performance-index.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_climate_change_performance_index_2018_a4.pdf.

  39. Yui Hatcho, ‘The Atlantic Charter of 1941: A Political Tool of Non-belligerent America’, The Japanese Journal of American Studies, 2003, http://www.jaas.gr.jp/jjas/PDF/2003/No.14-123.pdf.

  40. Daniel Boffey and Jennifer Rankin, ‘Trump Rebukes Nato Leaders for Not Paying Defence Bills’, Guardian, 25 May 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/trump-rebukes-nato-leaders-for-not-paying-defence-bills.

  41. Rob Smith, ‘The World’s Biggest Economies in 2018’, World Economic Forum, 18 April 2018, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/the-worlds-biggest-economies-in-2018/.

  42. ‘Full Text of Xi Jinping Keynote at the World Economic Forum’, CGTN, 17 January 2017, https://america.cgtn.com/2017/01/17/full-text-of-xi-jinping-keynote-at-the-world-economic-forum.

  43. ‘GDP (Current US$)’, World Bank, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=CN.

  44. GDP Per Capita (Current US$), World Bank, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=CN.

  45. Ankit Panda, ‘Sri Lanka Formally Hands Over Hambantota Port to Chinese Firms on 99-Year Lease’, Diplomat, 11 December 2017, https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/sri-lanka-formally-hands-over-hambantota-port-to-chinese-firms-on-99-year-lease/.

  46. Zofeen T. Ebrahim, ‘What’s Happening at Pakistan’s Gwadar Port?’, Diplomat, 17 June 2017, https://thediplomat.com/2017/06/whats-happening-at-pakistans-gwadar-port/.

  47. Ibid.

  48. Elizabeth Roche, ‘India, China Face Off Over Doklam Amid Bid to Ease Tensions’, Livemint, 27 March 2018, https://www.livemint.com/Politics/Qq7p6f7p4O9ePeJDbbjGEL/There-is-nothing-like-changing-status-quo-in-Doklam-China.html.

  49. Saibal Dasgupta, ‘Chinese Media Accuses Sushma Swaraj of Lying, Puts Pressure on Its Own Government’, Times of India, 21 July 2017, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/chinese-media-accuses-sushma-swaraj-of-lying-puts-pressure-on-its-own-government/articleshow/59703004.cms.

  50. Tom Phillips, ‘China Attacks International Court After South China Sea Ruling’, Guardian, 13 July 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/13/china-damns-international-court-after-south-china-sea-slapdown.

  51. ‘The China–North Korea Relationship’, Council for Foreign Relations, 28 March 2018, https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-north-korea-relationship.

  52. Owen Jones, ‘Islamophobia Plays Right into the Hands of ISIS’, Guardian, 25 November 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/25/islamophobia-isis-muslim-islamic-state-paris.

  53. Nick Stockton, ‘Turning Away Refugees Won’t Fight Terrorism, and Might Make It Worse’, Wired, 17 November 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/11/turning-away-refugees-wont-fight-terrorism-it-might-make-it-worse/.

  54. ‘The PIIGS that Won’t Fly’, The Economist, 18 May 2010, http://www.economist.com/node/15838029.

  55. ‘GDP (Current US$)’, World Bank, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=RU.

  56. Samir Saran, ‘Being Vladimir Putin: Russia’s President Gets 20th Century Geopolitics, What He Doesn’t Get Is 21st Century Geoeconomics’, Times of India, 2 March 2017, https://www.orfonline.org/research/putins-grasp-over-geopolitics-against-his-immaturity-in-geoeconomics/.

  57. ‘Uniting Our Strengths for Peace—Politics, Partnership and People’, Report of the High-Level Independent Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, 16 June 2015, http://providingforpeacekeeping.org/project/uniting-our-strengths-for-peace-politics-partnerships-and-people-report-of-the-high-level-independent-panel-on-united-nations-peace-operations-2015/.

  58. Hardeep S. Puri, ‘The UN at 70—Its Relevance or India and the World’, Speech by Hardeep S. Puri at Society for Policy Studies, 14 December 2015, http://hardeepsinghpuri.com/the-un-at-70-the-un-at-70-its-relevance-for-india-and-the-world/.

  59. Hardeep S. Puri, ‘Informal Thematic Debate On “The United Nations In Global Governance”’, Permanent Mission of India, 28 June 2011, https://Www.Pminewyork.Org/Pdf/Uploadpdf/61476ind1879.Pdf.

  60. Anthony Banbury, ‘I Love the U.N but It Is Failing’, New York Times, 18 March 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/i-love-the-un-but-it-is-failing.html.

  61. Charter of the United Nations, Chapter XV, Article 100, http://legal.un.org/reper
tory/art100.shtml.

  62. ‘Uniting Our Strengths for Peace—Politics, Partnership and People’, Report of the High-Level Independent Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, 16 June 2015, http://providingforpeacekeeping.org/project/uniting-our-strengths-for-peace-politics-partnerships-and-people-report-of-the-high-level-independent-panel-on-united-nations-peace-operations-2015/.

  63. Ibid.

  64. Ibid.

  65. Ibid.

  66. Ibid.

  67. ‘The Challenge of Sustaining Peace’, Report of the Advisory Group of Experts for the 2015 Review of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, 29 June 2015, https://reliefweb.int/report/world/challenge-sustaining-peace-report-advisory-group-experts-2015-review-united-nations.

  68. Ibid.

  69. The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, namely, United States of America, Russia, United Kingdom, France and People’s Republic of China, each with the power to Veto.

  70. Antonio Guterres, ‘Remarks to the General Assembly Taking Oath of Office’, United Nations, 12 December 2016, https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2016-12-12/secretary-general-designate-ant%C3%B3nio-guterres-oath-office-speech.

  71. Ana Maria Lebada, ‘UN Secretary-General Issues Third Report on Management Reform’, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 22 May 2018, http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-secretary-general-issues-third-report-on-management-reform/.

  72. The letter from the thirty-seven PRs is widely quoted in the New York United Nations dispatches (https://www.passblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/UN_Reform.pdf).

  73. Archis Mohan, ‘India and the United Nations’, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, 20 September 2013, http://mea.gov.in/in-focus-article.htm?22231/India+and+the+United+Nations.

  74. ‘Preamble’, United Nations, http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/preamble/index.html.

  75. Press Trust of India, ‘India Puts in Candidacy for 2021–2022 UNSC Non-permanent Seat’, The Hindu BusinessLine, 5 December 2013, http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-puts-in-candidacy-for-20212022-unsc-nonpermanent-seat/article5424929.ece.

  Chapter 6: The Politics of Terror

  1. ‘Text of George Bush’s Speech’, Guardian, 21 September 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/21/september11.usa13.

  2. ‘Raqqa’s Liberation from ISIS’, US Department of State, 20 October 2017, https://translations.state.gov/2017/10/20/raqqas-liberation-from-isis/.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Press Trust of India, ‘Raqqa Liberation Critical Milestone against ISIS: Rex Tillerson’, Indian Express, 21 October 2017, https://indianexpress.com/article/world/raqqa-liberation-critical-milestone-against-isis-rex-tillerson-4899465/.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Independent Commission on Multilateralism, ‘Discussion Paper on Terrorism Including Issues Related to Ideology, Identity Politics, and Organized Crime’, International Peace Institute, September 2015, https://www.icm2016.org/IMG/pdf/discussion_paper_3.pdf.

  8. ‘Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change’, UN General Assembly, 2 December 2004, https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/blog/document/the-secretary-generals-high-level-panel-report-on-threats-challenges-and-change-a-more-secure-world-our-shared-responsibility/.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Hardeep S. Puri, Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2016).

  12. Ibid.

  13. FP Staff, ‘You Can’t Keep Snakes in Your Backyard and Expect Them to Only Bite Your Neighbour: Clinton’, FirstPost, 21 October 2011, https://www.firstpost.com/world/clinton-continues-to-talk-tough-with-pakistan-113492.html.

  14. ‘Terrorists Linked to Organized Crime in Traffic of Nuclear, Biological Materials—UN’, UN News, 28 September 2011, https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/09/389732-terrorists-linked-organized-crime-traffic-nuclear-biological-materials-un.

  15. Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger, ‘Iraq War Was Illegal and Breached UN Charters, Says Annan’, Guardian, 16 September 2004, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq.

  16. Garikai Chengu, ‘America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group’, Global Research, 19 September 2004, https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881.

  17. Jack Moore, ‘Hundreds of ISIS Fighters Are Hiding in Turkey, Increasing Fears of Europe Attacks’, Newsweek, 27 December 2017, http://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-isis-fighters-are-hiding-turkey-increasing-fears-europe-attacks-759877.

  18. Adam Weinstein, ‘The Real Largest State Sponsor of Terrorism’, Huffington Post, 16 March 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-real-largest-state-sponsor-of terrorism_us_58cafc26e4b00705db4da8aa.

  19. ‘Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft. Signed at Tokyo on 14 September 1963’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv1-english.pdf.

  20. ‘Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft. Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970’, https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20860/volume-860-I-12325-English.pdf.

  21. ‘Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation. Concluded at Montreal on 23 September 1971, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv3-english.pdf.

  22. ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents. Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, at New York, on 14 December 1973’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/english-18-7.pdf.

  23. ‘International Convention against the Taking of Hostages. Adopted by the General Assembly of The United Nations on 17 December 1979’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/english-18-5.pdf.

  24. ‘Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material. Adopted at Vienna on 26 October 1979 and Opened for Signature at Vienna and New York on 3 March 1980’, https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201456/volume-1456-I-24631-English.pdf.

  25. ‘Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation. Concluded at Montreal on 23 September 1971’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv7-english.pdf.

  26. ‘Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation. Concluded at Rome on 10 March’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv8-english.pdf.

  27. ‘1988 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv9-english.pdf.

  28. ‘Protocol of 2005 to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf’, https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/58425.pdf.

  29. ‘1991 Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/Conv10-english.pdf.

  30. ‘1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/english-18-9.pdf.

  31. ‘1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/english-18-11.pdf.

  32. ‘2005 International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism’, http://treaties.un.org/doc/db/Terrorism/english-18-15.pdf.

  33. ‘Resolution 1267’, http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/1267%281999%29.

  34. ‘Al-Qaida Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team’, https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pdfs_terrorism-directory_4-MonitoringTeam-CTCommitteeExec.pdf.

  35. ‘Resolution 1269’, UNSCR, 1999, https://undocs.org/S/RES/1269.

  36. ‘Resolution 1904’, 2009, https://undocs.org/S/RES/1904.

  37.
‘Resolution 1373’, 2001, https://undocs.org/S/RES/1373.

  38. ‘Resolution 1535’, 2004, http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/1535%20%282004%29.

  39. ‘Resolution 1540’, 2004, https://undocs.org/S/RES/1540.

  40. ‘Resolution 1566’, 2004, https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7b65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7d/WG%20SRES%201566.pdf.

  41. ‘Resolution 1624’, 2005, http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/1624%20%282005%29.

  42. ‘Resolution 2133’, 2014, https://www.un.org/press/en/2014/sc11262.doc.htm.

  43. ‘Resolution 2178’, 2014, https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2178%20%282014%29.

  44. Ibid.

  Chapter 7: The Politics of Trade Policy

  1. Sidney Picker Jr., ‘World Trade and the Law of GATT, by John H. Jackson’, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Case Western Reserve University, 1971, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.co.in/&httpsredir=1&article=2869&context=caselrev.

  2. ‘Full Transcript: Donald Trump’s Jobs Plan Speech’, Politico, 28 June 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/full-transcript-trump-job-plan-speech-224891.

  3. Martin Wolf, ‘Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s Battle over Globalisation’, Financial Times, 24 January 2017, https://www.ft.com/content/74b42cd8-e171-11e6-8405-9e5580d6e5fb.

  4. World Trade Organisation, ‘Agreement Establishing the WTO’, The WTO Agreements Series, https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/agrmntseries1_wto_e.pdf.

  5. Alfredo Saad-Filho, ‘Growth, Poverty and Inequality: From Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth’, DESA Working Paper No. 100, November 2010, http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2010/wp100_2010.pdf.

  6. Hardeep S. Puri, ‘India’s Trade Policy Dilemma and the Role of Domestic Reform’, Carnegie India, 16 February 2017, http://carnegieindia.org/2017/02/16/india-s-trade-policy-dilemma-and-role-of-domestic-reform-pub-67946.