Shashank Joshi

Jan 9, 2025 | lowyinstitute.org | Shashank Joshi

My first trip to the Lowy Institute was in 2011. It was a different era. It was the year of Barack Obama’s “pivot” to Asia. The joint statement that followed Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington was full of warm words about co-operation and mutual benefit. Joe Biden, then vice-president, visited Moscow to pursue the administration’s “reset” in ties with Russia. That world seems unrecognisable now. I was fortunate enough to return to Lowy in November last year as a distinguished visiting fellow.

Dec 27, 2024 | mdpi.com | Shashank Joshi

1. Introduction 1.1. BackgroundSuicide is a significant public health concern, with profound impacts on individuals, families, and entire communities worldwide. In 2022 alone, over 700,000 individuals died by suicide, with countless more attempts recorded for each death [1]. Adolescents and young adults are disproportionately affected; suicide ranks as the second leading cause of death among 10–24-year-olds [1,2].

Nov 19, 2024 | economist.com | Shashank Joshi

Go it alone on defence, stick with America or try to muddle through? By Shashank Joshi, Defence editor, The Economist DONALD TRUMP’S return to the White House is a bombshell moment for Europe. The continent’s powers face the erosion, perhaps dissolution, of their principal alliance at the very moment that Russia has the upper hand in the war in Ukraine.

Sep 23, 2024 | engelsbergideas.com | Shashank Joshi

In 2014 Dan Geer, a computer security analyst, gave a speech at the RSA Conference, an annual gathering of cyber-security specialists, titled: ‘We Are All Intelligence Officers Now’. It described the ways in which computers were insinuating themselves into every aspect of life, the resulting haemorrhage of data, and the change in what it meant to be a collector of intelligence.

Feb 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Shashank Joshi March |Shashank Joshi |Edward Luttwak |Eitan Shamir

In This Review In This Review The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons From the Israel Defense Forces On a hot, dry afternoon, a wave of aircraft surges into the sky. They are hunting the enemy’s surface-to-air missile batteries. The SAM batteries scoot around every ten minutes—aerial surveillance photos taken earlier in the day are useless. But the attackers have a solution. They send in decoy drones, simulating the radar cross section of jets, prompting the SAM operators to turn on their radars.