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Is Bell Pottinger the Turning Point for South Africa’s Anticorruption Fighters?
At the crumbling Bell Pottinger, shock must still be setting in. Less than two years ago after the British PR firm agreed to a...
Cooperation, Not Sanctions, Will Make America Great Again
Someone needs to tell President Donald Trump that his own U.S. Treasury Department chief, Steve Mnuchin, mass purveyor of reckless and short-sighted economic trade...
Modi-Merkel mutually beneficial partnership set to continue
Germany is gearing up to vote for the 19th Bundestag or the Lower House of the Parliament which will, in turn, elect the German...
Goods and Services Tax (GST), India: A Dangerous Domino
Government loves taxation; the citizens, justifiably, loathe it with a passion. Parting with one’s hard-earned money, which will be pressed towards lofty goals and...
Is secularism dying in India?
Gauri Lankesh was shot to death on September 5, 2017. A consistent critic of Hindutva politics and right-wing Hindu extremism, the journalist-activist edited Gauri...
Is War Obsolete?
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the arguments in favor and against the obsoleteness of the war particularly after the cold war....
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...
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...
A Liberal Society: An Absolute Anomaly
The murder of a senior Indian journalist and activist, Gauri Lankesh, brought to the fore the fragility of a liberal society. Although the motive...