Jason Miklian

Jason Miklian, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo. Miklian has published over 60 academic and policy works on issues of conflict and crisis, based on extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, Colombia, India, and the Congo. He serves on the United Nations Expert Panel on Business and Human Rights, has won several awards for his academic publications, and serves as an expert resource for various government knowledge banks in the US, UK, EU and Norway. Miklian has also written for or been cited in an expert capacity by the New York Times, BBC, The Economist, Washington Post, France 24, The Guardian, The Hindu (India) and NPR.

April 17, 2023

Columns/Diplomacy

Corruption in Ukraine: Comparing the Magnitude to the Afghan War

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The CIA is not your friend

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as

September 20, 2022

Here is How US Secretly Explodes Nord Stream Pipeline to Blam Putin

Corruption/Diplomacy

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane

Exclusive: US-India Move to Establish Joint Military Base in Trincomalee?

Defence/Diplomacy/News

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, has made a second visit

Bangladesh: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm

August 15, 2022

New Books

Following excerpts adapted from the authors’ latest book, The Vortex A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation, published by HarperCollins Publishers White mist surged across the Mahajagmitra’s