#129 To Kill A Mocking Mosquito 🎧

<em>While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways.</em><br/><br/><em>Audio narration by </em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ad-auris.com/"><em>Ad-Auris</em></a><em>.  </em><br/><br/><strong>Global Policy Watch: Global Order - Where Will It Come From? </strong><br/><br/><em>Bringing an Indian perspective to burning global issues</em><br/><br/>- <em>RSJ</em><br/><br/>A couple of recent events made me wonder about the state of global affairs these days and an excuse to write about Hedley Bull and his famous book, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.in/Anarchical-Society-Study-Order-Politics/dp/0231127634"><em>The Anarchical Society – A Study of Order in World Politics</em></a> (1977). <br/><br/>Take the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/world/europe/ryanair-belarus.html">incredible story of Belarus forcing down </a>a Ryanair flight while it was in its airspace to arrest Roman Protasevich, a dissident who runs a popular Telegram channel widely used to protest against the regime of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko. A MiG 29 fighter jet was used to force the flight carrying 170 passengers to make a u-turn and land at the Minsk airport. This was a state sponsored hijacking with overt support from President Putin of Russia. <br/><br/>The EU condemned the incident and banned any carriers from flying over the Belarusian airspace. But barring strong press statements and warnings there wasn’t much teeth in the response from the West. Meanwhile, Russia and Belarus upped the ante. <a target="_blank" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/27/russia-blocks-two-european-airlines-belarus/">On Thursday, Russia refused to let planes land in Moscow </a>that were planning to bypass Belarus. The EU plans to apply sanctions on Belarus who is a signatory to the 1944 Chicago convention that established comm