PK Khup Hangzo is an Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation with a focus on internal security. Mr. Hangzo has a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He acquired this degree in 2010 through the Research Analyst Study Award, a fully funded scholarship offered by NTU.

Mr. Hangzo has also previous work experience as a Research Analyst and an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at RSIS, NTU, Singapore from 2008-2014. His research interests includes transnational crime (human trafficking, drug trafficking, wildlife trafficking, and arms trafficking), ethnic conflicts and insurgencies, and the geopolitics of transboundary rivers.

Contributions 
Discussion on the Final Installment of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) In this episode of VIF Podcast, PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow and Heena Samant, Research Associate discusses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fourth and final instalment of its sixth assessment report (AR6) titled Synthesis...

Geo-engineering: A Fringe Idea Whose Time Has Come? Introduction On 1 October 2022, the US government announced a Five-Year Plan to study the controversial and seemingly sci-fi notion of deflecting the Sun’s rays before they hit Earth in order to temporarily reduce the effects of global wa...

Climate Change: A Review of 2022 and Projections for 2023 Over the past year, the impact of climate change has escalated significantly. The threats emanating from this existential crisis are increasingly multifaceted and interlocking in nature and continue to test the capability of states and governments to...

COP 27 and its Outcomes In this VIF podcast, PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow and Heena Samant , Research Assistant at VIF discuss COP 27 and its outcomes. The episode is conversational and flags both the positive as well as negative outcomes of COP 27 which took place from...

COP 27: High Stakes, Low Expectations Introduction The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 27, will take place at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt from 6 to 18 November. The main aim of the conference is to spur action towards achieving the world’s collective climat...

Monographs/Compendiums 
Climate Change Adaptation in India from the Past to the Present The impact of climate change have manifested in various ways including through extreme weather events. Extreme weather events are “weather phenomena that are at the extremes of the historical distribution and are rare for a particular place and/or ...

VIF Papers 
Implications of China’s Hydro-Hegemony on River Yarlung Tsangpo: Another Lever of China’s Expansionist Tactics into India’s East On 11 March 2021, China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, endorsed a plan to build a ‘super dam’ on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southeastern Tibet. According to Chinese media reports, the dam will have an ins...

Book Published / Book Reviews 
From Third World to First -The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. First Edition. By Lee Kuan Yew. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 729 pp. ISBN 0-06-019776-5. Singapore has been called the 20th century’s “most successful development story” and is considered a model for economic development. Its stunning economic transformation has been described as a “miracle” and have been the subject of numerou...

Event Reports 
VIF-CICIR-CASS virtual Roundtable on “China-India Climate Change: Dynamics and the Way Forward” On 15 June 2022, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) organized a virtual roundtable on China-India Climate Change: Dynamics...

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