Kashish Parpiani, at The Blogs

Jun 18, 2021, 7:45 AM

Congressional Democrats & Biden’s foreign policy

Following an expansion of Congressional role in foreign policy decision-making under Trump, the influence of progressive Democrats over Biden’s agenda bears mixed prospects for India-US ties Under Donald Trump, the US witnessed a power tussle between the executive and the...

Oct 17, 2018, 10:24 AM

Is Trump reinstating a values-centric US foreign policy towards China?

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, joined by President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan, applaud and thank the performers at a cultural performance at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, November 9, 2017, following a State Dinner in their honor, in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

Trump decries linkage of values & policy but his China policy may be an exception On mounting pressure to punish Saudi Arabia for its alleged involvement in the disappearance of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Trump recently announced that he wouldn't...

Jul 15, 2018, 7:24 PM

Trump’s Exemptionalist US Foreign Policy

President Donald J. Trump participates in the multilateral meeting of the North Atlantic Council | July 11, 2018 (Official White House photograph by Shealah Craighead)

Under President Trump, the United States seems to adopting an unprecedented antagonistic stance against the institutions, commitments, and unpronounced precedents alike, of the liberal world order that the US itself put in place in the aftermath of the Second...

Jan 14, 2017, 6:07 PM

Obama’s Exceptional Funambulism

In underscoring the various challenges riddling the United States, President Obama in his farewell address also purported his rendering of American Exceptionalism. Trevor McCrisken in American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam, defines American Exceptionalism as the belief that...

Sep 6, 2016, 11:52 AM

Washington’s Indignant Ally

A Russian broadsheet recently reported that it has acquired a shareholder’s report of the aircraft manufacturer company Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK MiG). According to its findings, the report outlined contract details of a lucrative deal with an unspecified...

Jun 12, 2016, 9:38 PM

Hillary’s Friedan Moment

Last week, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major party’s nomination in the United States’ history of over two centuries as a democracy. The United States’ commitment to women’s rights was first sealed back in 1919,...

May 31, 2016, 11:14 AM

Wars as Inheritance

Earlier this month, in yet another installment of the United States’ decapitation strategy of targeted killings of high-ranking members of terrorist organizations, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, was killed by a drone strike in...

May 19, 2016, 8:07 PM

Ratification of Cogency

The United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) -- which serves as the cornerstone of universalization of women’s rights since its inception in 1979. As of June 23, 2011,...

About Me

Kashish Parpiani is Research Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Based in Mumbai (India), his research interests include US–India ties and US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific. Beyond ORF, he has been published at the Institute for National Security Studies (Israel), the Centre for Asia and Globalization (Singapore), Deccan Herald (India), the Marine Corps University Press (US), The Hindu (India), and the Rising Powers in Global Governance Project (Turkey). Kashish is also the co-author of the forthcoming book — America and the Indo-Pacific - Trump and Beyond (Routledge, June 2021). He has presented papers at conferences by the Shanghai University, the International Studies Association (ISA), and London School of Economics–IDEAS. Kashish has been quoted across media platforms such as The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, TIME magazine, and Al Jazeera.

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