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CommentarySimplifying the European Union AI Act: A Strategic Retreat or Smarter Regulation?
The EU’s Digital Omnibus on AI postpones key high-risk obligations while strengthening the European AI Office and adding new safeguards. The reform responds to incomplete standards and growing competitiveness pressures, but delay is defensible only if it produces workable guidance, adequately resource enforcement and lower unnecessary burdens without weakening fundamental-rights protection. Its implementation will determine whether simplification becomes regulatory pragmatism or strategic retreat.
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CommentaryRethinking Conflict Resolution in the Era of International Intra-State Armed Conflicts
This commentary argues that contemporary conflicts increasingly combine intra-state and international dimensions, posing challenges to traditional conflict resolution strategies. It proposes an analysis of theories of International Relations and Conflict Resolution as well as the adoption of realistic policies that include deterrence, adaptive monitoring, regional cooperation and local peacebuilding efforts.
Book Reviewपुस्तक समीक्षा | ऑपरेशन सिंदूर और भारत की राष्ट्रीय चेतना
डॉ. मीना रानी - ऑपरेशन सिंदूर और भारत की राष्ट्रीय चेतना, विकास प्रकाशन, बीकानेर, 2025, pp.169, INR 500, ISBN-13: 9788199216594.
