Embattled Sovereignty: India, the UN, and Humanitarian Intervention
Rohan Mukherjee
February 11, 2013
In this issue of India in Transition, Rohan Mukherjee, doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, discusses how India and the United Nations have diverged in their respective approaches to questions of human rights and state sovereignty.
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CASI 2013 Summer Travel Funds Competition for Current Penn Students
Applications for Summer Research Travel Funds for Penn students will be accepted from Monday, February 4, 2013 to Monday, March 11, 2013 (5:00 p.m. EST).
Applications for CASI Summer Internships are now closed. Thank you to all who applied!
Student Research Symposium featuring Summer 2012 Travel Funds Winners
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
1:00-3:00 p.m.
at CASI - 3600 Market Street, Suite 560
Upcoming Events
Friday, February 15, 2013, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
"America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back"
CASI seminar by Bruce O. Riedel (Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution)
RSVP to casi@sas.upenn.edu by Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - seating is limited
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Friday, February 22, 2013, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
“How India is Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Policing in a Federal Set Up”
CASI seminar by Gopal Pillai (Former Home Secretary of India)
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Thursday, February 28, 2013, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
"The US-China Strategic Economic Relationship: Overcoming Distrust?"
CEAS-Lauder Annual Speaker Seminar by Arvind Subramanian (Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Center for Global Development, and CASI IAB Member)
Sponsored by: the Center for East Asian Studies, The Lauder Institute, Penn Lauder CIBER, and CASI
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CASI in the News
Chandra Bhan Prasad, writer on Dalit issues, and former CASI Visiting Scholar, and Milind Kamble, Chairman, Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DICCI) published "Manifesto to End Caste: Push Capitalism and Industrialisation to Eradicate this Pernicious System" in the January 23, 2013 issue of The Times of India.
(Mr. Kamble was also a recipient of the 2013 Padma Shri Award, one of the highest civilian awards in India, presented by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee)
Additionally, a February 6, 2013 article in The Times of India titled "Nothing Can Contest Caste Inequality More than Free Markets and Economic Growth" notes the UPenn study conducted by CASI on major social and economic shifts among Dalits in Uttar Pradesh since 1991.
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