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Can India End the Scourge of Corruption?
Records tell that India has a long distance to cover to contribute to the BRICS recent plan of working together to combat corruption. However,...
Vietnam’s Skewed Sense of Social Justice
In what is slated to become Vietnam’s largest graft case in history, nearly 50 elite bankers are on trial in Hanoi for alleged graft...
Reinventing the idea of single part tariff for power distribution to domestic consumers: Does it make sense!
Prior to 1992, a single part tariff based on cost plus on actual basis was in place in India’s power sector according to schedule...
The Fundamentals of Xi Jinping’s Diplomacy
Authors: Wang Li & Zhou Dongchen More than 100 years ago, W. A. P. Martin, a widely-respected American scholar and jurist, rightly opined, “If...
International Law and the underlying Extra-legal Factors that influence Terrorism
The world shivers at the mention of terrorism. As a matter of fact, modern terrorism has proven to pose the most serious threat to...
The Gulf crisis: Fighting it out down and dirty
In the three-month old Gulf crisis, nothing is too expensive or too down and dirty when it comes to buying influence, garnering soft power,...
What Are Nexus States?
What are ‘Nexus States’? For the purposes of this discussion, they’re defined as small states that enjoy a convergence of geographical access, financial services...
U.S. Student Debt Crisis
Over the past decades, the average debt for students receiving their bachelors has tripled. A recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows...
The Real Estate Cold War: Russia and America Fighting Over “Parity”
This past week the United States informed the Russian Federation that it was going to immediately close the Russian consulate in San Francisco as...
Variations on a theme: The Gulf crisis settles into a family squabble
A three-month old crisis in the Gulf that has pitted Qatar against an alliance led by the UAE and Saudi Arabia has settled into...