Najam Describes 2022 as a “Year of Malaise”
In an appearance on Hum News‘ special new year program, Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, comments on the key 2022 trends and 2023 expectations in international affairs.
Najam suggests in his remarks that 2022 was “a cursed year” and “a year of international malaise.” He suggests that “maybe the best thing that can be said about 2022 in international affairs is that it will end tonight. The saddest thing is that all the challenges that it has wrought will still be with us when the first of January dawns.”
The full program can be viewed (in Urdu) below.
Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who served as the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Najam on his faculty profile.