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Vivek N. D.

Vivek N.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India where he teaches Political Science. He is pursuing his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad. His PhD study focuses on the politics of global health governance and policy making by comparing India and South Africa. Twitter- @viveknenmini
 

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Reflections on Promoting Sustainable Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Trade between India and Africa, including from a recent roundtable in Hyderabad

India’s ties with the African continent go back many centuries. Age-old maritime networks that developed in the Indian Ocean region, were further strengthened during the 19th and 20th centuries spurred by European colonialism. Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation came to the fore with the Bandung Conference held in April 1955 in Bandu...

Climate change governance and the “health security” dilemma in the Global South

In November 2021, in a mid-term evaluation for their paper on ‘Fundamentals of Political Science’ (an introductory course to political science that I teach), one of the questions I had asked my students in their first semester of the undergraduate integrated Humanities/Law honours programme, was the following: explain the (heavy) ‘luggage...

India’s Health Securitisation under the COVID-19 Pandemic

The deepening crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose the deficiencies of the current political and economic structures across the world. In the case of India, in particular, it has taken only a few months for the virus to ravage the country’s social fabric and dismantle its economic order rendering millions jobless, incomes and s...